Sometimes you accidentally double-post the same article. It looks like an easy fix until you notice that people have commented on both articles! It turns out that the solution is pretty easy if you are comfortable with SQL. This post is a work of art concisely explaining what to do and making it simple.
Tag: Web
Easily and Automatically Post to LinkedIn
Social Media Auto Publish lets you easily and automatically post to LinkedIn from WordPress.
The setup is effortless once you work around the disparity between the setup documentation and the current LinkedIn user interface.
Be sure to set “Enable auto publish posts to my linkedin account” to YES.
Choosing a WordPress Vagrant Box
I want a Vagrant box on which to configure and develop WordPress. Here are some of the options. I wanted to decide on one. Here is how.
- Box: name
- Stars: on GitHub, # stars
- Ctrb: on GitHub, # contributors
- Rel: on GitHub, # releases
- Cmts: on GitHub, # commits
- Brn: on GitHub, # branches
- For: Purpose of box
- Rct: Gut reaction 1
+: Like*: Pros and Cons-: Dislike
- Rt2: Gut reaction 2
Strategy:
- Identify options
- Classify them by stars and contributors
- Get a gut reaction whether to dig deeper or not
- Review them again
| Box | Stars | Ctrb | Rel | Cmts | Brn | For | Rct | Rt2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VVV | 2323 | 72 | 13 | 1178 | 4 | WP Dev | + | |
| Vagrnt-Press | 696 | 17 | 0 | 107 | 5 | Gen dev | + | ++ |
| vipquickstart | 242 | 23 | 3 | 562 | 9 | Gen dev | + | – |
| Primary-Vgrnt | 103 | 7 | 15 | 399 | 3 | Gen dev | + | na |
| wp-nginx-hhvm | 28 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 1 | Gen dev | + | na |
| MonkeyRocket | 13 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | Gen dev | + | na |
| Chassis | 330 | 17 | 0 | 274 | 7 | Gen dev | * | na |
| wp-vagrant | 110 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 2 | Reg sup | * | na |
| vccw | 382 | 20 | 45 | 343 | 3 | Gen dev | * | na |
| genesis | 674 | 10 | 83 | 384 | 42 | Gen dev | * | na |
| VVV-site-wizard | 373 | 5 | 0 | 70 | 2 | Cfg VVV | – | na |
| vvv-reviewer | 69 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 2 | Rvw | – | na |
| VAW | 78 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 1 | Gen dev | – | na |
| WP Machine | 14 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 1 | LAMP | – | na |
| wpkickstart | 32 | 9 | 0 | 44 | 1 | DigOcn | – | na |
VVV seems to be the best place to start.
Org2Blog DITAA Test
+--------+ +-------+ +-------+
| | --+ ditaa +--> | |
| Text | +-------+ |diagram|
|Document| |!magic!| | |
| {d}| | | | |
+---+----+ +-------+ +-------+
: ^
| Lots of work |
+-------------------------+
The test succeeded by turning off thumbnail images.
Captcha May Be Pointless
With Bad Behavior 2 and Akismet installed you will probably never see spam.
Making your blog more accessible is probably worth removing Captcha.
What is Your Blog Backup Strategy?
What is your blog backup strategy?
Mine is basic: rolling site and database backups.
Tests are currently done in a local instance but I’m moving testing into a Vagrant box instead.
Re-enabling RSS tag feeds with the Feedburner Plugin
Most of us WordPress users who are using Feedburner to track our feed subscriptions are using the Feedburner Feedsmith WordPress plugin to make it all work. Unfortuantely that plugin remove the ability for folks to subscribe to RSS tag feeds directly from your blog. In this article, the author explain how to re-enable this feature.
In the function
function ol_feed_redirect()
change this
is_feed() && $feed != 'comments-rss2' && !is_single() &&
to this:
is_feed() && $feed != 'comments-rss2' && !is_single() && !is_tag() &&
Basically you are just telling the plugin that if the URL has a tag argument, it should let WordPress handle the feed rather than Feedburner.
(via the ocamlcore.org team)
Python and Django
Simple Yearly Archive
Simple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple WordPress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list. It works mostly like the usual WP archive, but displays all published posts seperated by their year of publication. That said, it’s also possible to restrict the output to certain categories, and much more.
The default WordPress “Archive” widget is nice, but once you get more than a couple years worth of archives it starts to take up a lot of space and as such become very ugly. This plugin deals with the problem rather nicely by allowing you to include the archive anywhere you wish. For example, I put it on a page (aptly) named “Archive”.
The one thing that you will probably want to do right off the bat is to configure a date-format for the posts and display post-count per year.
Ext JS
“Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications.”
In particular, it allows you to build desktop-like applications that run in a web browser. Considering the speed of CPUs and Internet connections today, this could be pretty interesting.