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Out with the old, in with the new

Tuesday | November 4, 2008 | 10:48 pm  

I’ll avoid the temp­ta­tion to draw any par­al­lels with the incom­ing vote tal­lies, but it’s time to get rid of one ancient, messed up, inadequate… plugin and usher in a new era… of post­ing deli​cious.com book­marks to the site.

Say good­bye to Word​Pre.​cio.us (neé delicious-​to-​WordPress aka del2wp), and hello to Posta­l­i­cious.

I’ve been run­ning on the site for the last few months, and it’s just great. It does every­thing Word​Pre.​cio.us did and a whole lot more.

Aside: I’ve also cleaned up a bunch of ancient links on the site to my old Web “clips” and print clips (I believe I’ve now been away from Quark/InDesign longer than I ever actu­ally used them), and I’m redi­rect­ing my resumé to my LinkedIn Pro­file and in act of typog­ra­phy nerd­dom I’ve installed wp-​hyphenate.

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Word​Pre.​cio.us compatible with WP 2.0 (updated)

Tuesday | February 14, 2006 | 12:19 am  

But appar­ently, my copy of WP-​Touched isn’t. I bet there’s an update, but I forgot to check before edit­ing a post with it… which promptly ate my pre­vi­ous post.

Here’s the long and short of it… Word​Pre.​cio.us is com­pat­i­ble with WP 2.0/2.01. Enjoy WP 2.0 good­ness along with Word​Pre.​cio.us tastiness.

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Word​Pre.​cio.us compatible with WordPress 2.01

Monday | February 13, 2006 | 12:28 pm  

Real life has pre­vented me from play­ing with the Word­Press 2.01 upgrade until recently.

I’m proud to report that Word​Pre.​cio.us 1.0 works with WP 2.01 just fine.

I am work­ing on an upgrade that’ll bundle it as a WP plugin, for folks who like that sort of thing, and I might even try out SimplePie’s RSS pars­ing, but who knows.

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Word​pre.​cio.us hits 1.0

Friday | July 8, 2005 | 4:30 pm  

It’s finally happened!

Word​Pre.​cio.us has hit 1.0!

The new ver­sion is compatible/tested against 1.5.1.3 and is avail­able on my projects page.

Plus I’ve got a fancy offi­cial SVN repos­i­tory with wp-​plu​g​ins.org and a wiki page on the site.

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Need help fixing Word​Pre.​cio.us

Monday | March 14, 2005 | 11:43 am  

This is a call to all those brave Word​Pre.​cio.us beta testers.

I’m having trou­ble find­ing the break­down with regards to the date of the entries. In theory, it’s going to be posted at the date/time that your blog­mark itself has in del.​icio.us. For many users, this seems to be the case, but some are seeing prob­lems where the date is off in their Word­Press blog.

So can anyone with the prob­lem please send me an e-mail to del2wp at heisel dot org with the fol­low­ing information:

1. A link to a page on your Web host that has the output of your php_info() function.

2. The RSS URL you’re using in your Word​Pre.​cio.us instal­la­tion. (The $rss_url in the config section.)

3. The times that your last few blog­marks should be posted at, and the time they were posted at. Be sure to include the title of the blog­mark along with those times so I can cor­re­late them.

I’m also releas­ing some sample tem­plate code and CSS to achieve the pre­sen­ta­tion that I’ve got here on heisel.org, you can find it on the projects page. The tem­plate code assumes that you’re filing your posts under a cat­e­gory called ‘Blogmarks’, if not then you’ll need to hack the code accordingly…

Update: If you’d like to keep up with work on Word​Pre.​cio.us then sub­scribe to it’s RSS feed

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Word​Pre.​cio.us update

Sunday | March 6, 2005 | 9:00 am  

Sev­eral folks have reported get­ting errors when Word​Pre.​cio.us makes a call to parse_w3cdtf().

That func­tion should be a part of Word­Press 1.5’s install, located in wp-includes/rss-functions.php.

It should get pulled into the name­space when your wp-config.php is pulled in, but folks with proper paths to their wp-​config are still get­ting errors.

So I’ve updated the release to include that parse_w3cdtf() func­tion in del2wp.lib.php. You can get this updated ver­sion at my projects page

Update: I changed the name of the func­tion to cmh_parse_w3cdtf() and changed all ref­er­ences to it in the latest build, so that folks with­out the prob­lem won’t have name conflicts.

Update again: Per John’s sug­ges­tion, you can now set the ping and com­ment status to either ‘open’ or ‘closed’ when con­fig­ur­ing del2wp.php. It’s lines 13 and 14 in the file. You can get the updated release at my projects page.

Why not again: I’m look­ing for some help from folks expe­ri­enc­ing the time-​shift prob­lem with their blogmarks…

Last time: If you’d like to keep up with work on Word​Pre.​cio.us then sub­scribe to it’s RSS feed

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Looking for Word​Prec.​icio.us?

Thursday | March 3, 2005 | 11:35 pm  

I don’t know who linked to this bad URL. But you might try:

• Announc­ing Word​Prec.​icio.us
• Word​Prec.​icio.us project page

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Announcing Word​Pre.​cio.us

Wednesday | March 2, 2005 | 5:32 pm  

As promised, I’ve released my custom script that imports del.​icio.us book­marks into your Word­Press blog.

Unlike other plu­g­ins, which dis­play your book­marks as a side­bar ele­ment, del.icio.us-to-WordPressWord​Pre.​cio.us actu­ally imports them as entries in your blog, so you can have some Kottke-​style inline remain­dered links.

It relies on Mag­pieRSS to parse any of your del.​icio.us RSS feeds, which means you can con­trol what book­marks get imported (some of the other plu­g­ins just yank in all your book­marks). I, for exam­ple, only pull in entries tagged with blog­marks.

The moti­va­tion behind this script was two-​fold:

1. I liked Kottke’s way of pre­sent­ing links, and I couldn’t find any­thing like that for Word­Press.
2. I thought it silly to have to post a blog­mark in both Word­Press and in del.​icio.us.

The plugin cre­ates a sane entry body out of each of your bookmarks/entries, plus it also attaches a blogmark_url and blogmark_description custom field to each post, so you can do all sorts of groovy things with your data.

The script both inserts, and updates book­marks from your del.​icio.us RSS feed, so del.​icio.us essen­tially becomes my blog­mark post­ing inter­face, which I think is cool.

The script is still in beta, seeing as I’m the only one using it at the moment, so please send any feed­back or trou­bles you might have to del2wp at heisel dot org.

So, with­out fur­ther ado, I give you del.icio.us-to-WordPressWord​Pre.​cio.us.

P.S. I’m all for a much cooler name, send sug­ges­tions to the same e-mail address or add it in a com­ment. Thanks to Michael Cald­well for this project’s name: Word​Pre.​cio.us.

Update: I fixed the broken down­load link on the projects page.

Update again: The script is only for Word­Press 1.5.

One more time: I just added a zip ver­sion of the script, for those with­out tar.gz capability.

Once more for shits and gig­gles: I’ve pro­vided some of the theme code I use to dis­play my blog­marks.

Why not again: I’m look­ing for some help from folks expe­ri­enc­ing the time-​shift prob­lem with their blogmarks…

Last time: If you’d like to keep up with work on Word​Pre.​cio.us then sub­scribe to it’s RSS feed

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