A Less Complex Workflow

January 31, 2008 – 1:30 pm

Now that MarsEdit supports tags for WordPress, I no longer have to edit the post on the server to add the tags after publishing from the tool.

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XSLPalette 1.3.3

November 3, 2007 – 1:08 pm

Todd Ditchendorf released an update to his XPath/XQuery/XSLT debugging tool.

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Namespaces for Twitter

August 21, 2007 – 2:51 pm

Dave Winer: Imagine what might go at http://twitter.com/davewiner/gnomedex.
Les Orchard elaborates on the idea.

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CommentPress and Writing on a Roll of Towels

July 25, 2007 – 9:58 pm

Back in 2004, Kathyrn Cramer, a veteran hypertexter, described blogging as “writing on a roll of papers towels” [1], so I’ve been on the lookout for blogging tools that behave more like hypertext.
The Institute for the Future of the Book released CommentPress, a WordPress Theme, that breaks out block-level elements of a blog post into [...]

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iPhone Viewport Meta Plugin for WordPress

July 11, 2007 – 11:12 pm

Get the plugin from wordpress.org.
Update 4: Plugin now hosted at wordpress.org.
Update 3: New version with support for viewport constants, and iPod Touch.
Update 2: James Craig points out that the ID attribute is not allowed in the META element, so I’ve updated the plugin.
Update: I should add what my aim is. Rather than creating a separate [...]

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Upgrades

June 1, 2007 – 1:27 am

I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.2 and Sandbox 0.91. The main feed is working, but as Mark Pilgrim noted, there’s a glitch in the Atom comments feed. It’s late though, and I’ll patch that later.

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No Inline Markdown, Please

April 18, 2007 – 11:04 pm

Daniel Jalkut mentions the support for Markdown in MarsEdit. I love Markdown, but I don’t want to install a Markdown output filter for WordPress.
What I’d like to see is an option to convert the post in MarsEdit to and from Markdown, so I can publish XHTML, and convert back to Markdown if I edit it [...]

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Scheduling in WordPress

April 10, 2007 – 10:20 pm

Glenn Slaven has a write up on using the cron hooks in WordPress.

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wp-cron and Widgets

February 13, 2007 – 12:24 am

So, about this widgets-considered-harmful-business that Jeremy and Shelley discussed.
The obvious desperate web programmer solution is to set up a cron job that drops off a pile of XML and JSON in a cache. But that doesn’t help the 90% of people out there who don’t want to learn the shell, PHP, or JavaScript in order [...]

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Trying Bird Feeder

January 29, 2007 – 11:09 pm

Testing an extension to Mint for tracking feeds. The alternate links in the Atom feed have changed.

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Upgrade Friday

January 26, 2007 – 8:01 pm

Listening to the Sharks’ game, upgrading Cyn and my weblogs to WordPress 2.1.

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DuCharme’s XLink Example

January 21, 2007 – 2:04 pm

Tim, wrt your essay on linking, see Bob DuCharme’s XLink example from 2003, most browsers now support this, and you could forgo the XSLT piece if someone wanted to make it a pure JavaScript/DOM solution.

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Upgrading WordPress

January 7, 2007 – 10:45 am

I’ve upgraded More Like This to WordPress 2.0.6 this morning. You’ll want Mark Jaquith’s patch, fixing a problem with 304 Not Modified responses, to keep from breaking aggregators.

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HOWTO: Asides in Sandbox

November 28, 2006 – 11:43 pm

One thing I love about the Sandbox theme for WordPress is the ease which which you can create per-category CSS customization. Andy Skelton had written a note on how to do it, which I used as a basis for mine.
Here’s my CSS rules for asides. You’ll need to use the Sandbox theme, and I advise [...]

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Atom 1.0 Plugin for Wordpress

November 17, 2006 – 12:04 am

Ben Smedberg updated his Atom 1.0 syndication plugin for Wordpress. Drop this into your plugins folder, and it will hook in and return Atom 1.0 feeds as the default. Version 0.6 fixes a problem with displaying feeds in Safari.

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