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four times in two months

adam — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:38:56 +0000

i upgraded my blog again last night, to help joen with some bugsquashing on Fauna RC2. after not touching my wordpress install for the better part of a year, it's odd to be updating it this many times in 2 months. I still had to do a manual hack to get my WYSIWYG tabbed editor to work. Nazgul's suggesting that i should keep doing this, so i used my handy new ~~computer hacking~~ SVN skillz to make a patch, so i don't have to work so hard next time: UPDATE: something in 2.1.1/2.1.2 changed, and my patch stopped fixing it. this is a new version. you may also need to hack gzhandler() out of functions.php.

tiny_mce_gzip.php.patch

the upgrade also means that my WYSIWYG editor is back to the standard font and padding. i dunno how i feel about that.

UPDATE: to apply the patch, i highly recommend using tortoise SVN. because i like GUI's and not having to remember the command line syntax.

download the patch, and right click on it, like so:

tortoise will ask you where to apply it, choose the directory where you've downloaded wordpress 2.1.1. it should then tell you that it's found a similar file in wp-includes/js/tinymce. it'll bring up a split panel window showing the patch and the current version of the file. double click the file in the little window that shows up, close it, hit save, and then upload the changed file to your blog.

Jizzy Handled

adam — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:25:43 +0000

after reasonable testing, i've now upgraded my main blog. despite all the cool kids in the hackers list saying they never use the rich text editor, i use it all the time. yeah, sure, i can write code, but that doesn't mean it's appropriate to write about my weekend in code. so, here's the list of changes for the upgrade:

Hacks

the ob_gzhandler() hack that fixes my bug, (the same hack as last time didn't fix it).
the Jesus hack now takes place in wp-admin/index-extra.php.
the UTW hack. not that i'm dealing with a torrent of moderated comments, but broken is as broken does.
added a bunch of .linkcat ul styles. since my linkcats didn't used to have ul's.

Plugins

i deleted all the plugins i'm not using. during the whole disable/re-enable process, i tend to forget which ones i've decided are crap. i blame this on installer, which makes it far too easy to install widgets for 3 days, decide they're worthless, and then move on. it took a while, but it saves time, or something.
updated alex king's plugins, which now all have their own hooks, so i had to hack them back out of my theme.
updated S2C. it was always such a pain, guessing what email people had used to subscribe. i like easy stalking.
deleted linkslist. hence the sudden existence of ul's. i'm not going to take down the plugin, since people seem to find it useful(for the same reasons i built it), and the 2.0.x branch isn't going away. i'm also not going to update it, because wp_list_bookmarks() does a decent enough job.

hand on mouth, the game goes on

adam — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:35:57 +0000

it's update time. no, not wordpress. i don't get the kewl new features, so it's hard to be excited about it. plus, the thought of all my tags going to hell doesn't sound fun. my test blogs are updated for theme testing purposes, since they didn't need backing up.

The Thin Line for wordpress.com has moved up to v2. I'm running it on this site, poke around a bit. The skin will come later, as scott's working on v0.7. andy's off cavorting in mexico, so i doubt i'll have to worry about the wordpress.com version changing. The reasons for the change are something like this:

maintaining that many layouts is too complicated for my small brain. and a single column with a 2 column fat footer is really hard to dress up. giving the skin its own layout made life easy.
my recent obsession with ambient occlusion
the footer-like sidebar from the bus full of hippies was really cool.
the inward and outward graphics were just to big, and counter to the name.
jumping straight from proof-of-concept to 2.0 is all kinds of trendy and cool.

I've now hosted the file on archgfx, because for whatever reason, i can no longer upload *.txt files. i can upload *.doc files, though, so clearly it has nothing to do with security.

custom headers for everyone

adam — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:46:31 +0000

...and little flags for theme authors. hot damn. i wasn't sure removing linkslist would really be worth updating disconnected. Since the updated bookmarks/blogroll/links (whatever the devlopers have decided for this present moment) widget is now API compliant. And since dreamhost users appear to be stuck with an old version of the theme regardless of bugfixes (and it's impossible to explain simple things like deleting page.php to people who get themes installed by clicking a button, rather than ftp).

but no more! i'll be taking matt's advice, and fixing things up.

Import WordPress

adam — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:42:19 +0000

that page has been hanging around the admin panels in these parts for way to long to be doing this little good. I'm migrating my less professional posts off of my archGFX blog, and onto a less professional 'posterity' journal. turns out it's more difficult than the simplicity of the instructions would lead you to believe.

Every other time i've tried to import posts on wordpress.com, i've lost comments, lost categories, had server timeouts that require restarting the entire process, and it's generally been a pain. So i tried a new approach. I opened up my WXR export file in a text editor, then opened up a WXR from this blog, and compared them. [NOTE: the file generated by wordpress.com is now a *.XML file, which firefox 2 formats and asks if you'd like to subscribe to. how helpful. i switched to Opera for the remainder of the import.]

that's the first line of the local export file, for reference. It's actually generated by whatever revision was current in SVN on the 14th, if that matters. there are plenty of differences in the files, but i went straight for the problem tag: (from the WXR generated by sbk.wp.com). doesn't exist in the file generated by SVN. instead, it had which is a much more professional, and crossplatform sort of field name. nonetheless, i did a find and replace. replaced 6000+ instances. i don't know if that's because i use UTW on archGFX, or what. (i have approximately 500 entries on archGFX).

Next, i went through and did a find and replace on all the authors, changing them over to sunburntkamel. (these are the authors on archGFX: adam, melanie, and administrator). This is because while uploading 500+ entries does take time, it doesn't cause server timeout errors. normalizing authors does. Last time it happened, i petitioned the almighty PODZ for help, and it seems i got it (no 408 errors this time, w00t!). importing still prompted me to change the author 'sunburntkamel' to 'sunburntkamel', but at least it worked.

And after all that, and more than a few test runs on a test blog, i ran the final upload in opera. firefox, for all it's brilliance, sees a script take that long, and throws the 'unresponsive script' error. Opera FTW, bless it's little heart, plugged away at that script for damn near 20 minutes.

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