René Samselnig's Weblog » wordpress http://sdm-net.org Personal Entertainment and Knowledge Management Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:08:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate http://sdm-net.org/2005/12/wordpress-20-release-candidate/ http://sdm-net.org/2005/12/wordpress-20-release-candidate/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:42:35 +0000 René Samselnig http://www.sdm-net.org/2005/12/wordpress-20-release-candidate/ Yesterday the WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate has been anounced. This means that its not going to take long until 2.0 final will be released. The Release Candidate is meant to find the last few bugs (if any) and fix them – sooner or later it will become the final version. Check it out at WordPress [...]

]]> Yesterday the WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate has been anounced. This means that its not going to take long until 2.0 final will be released. The Release Candidate is meant to find the last few bugs (if any) and fix them – sooner or later it will become the final version. Check it out at WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate.

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2005/12/wordpress-20-release-candidate/feed/ 0 New hardware, new Ubuntu release, new wordpress plugin http://sdm-net.org/2005/10/new-hardware-new-ubuntu-release-new-wordpress-plugin/ http://sdm-net.org/2005/10/new-hardware-new-ubuntu-release-new-wordpress-plugin/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:59:03 +0000 René Samselnig http://www.sdm-net.org/2005/10/new-hardware-new-ubuntu-release-new-wordpress-plugin/ This week our server broke down. The harddrive made sounds like hammering their heads against the disc – which of course is not good. So we had to find another harddisk. Fortunately I had kind of a spare computer at home which has a lot more harddisk space available (60GB instead of the poor 30GB [...]

]]> This week our server broke down. The harddrive made sounds like hammering their heads against the disc – which of course is not good. So we had to find another harddisk. Fortunately I had kind of a spare computer at home which has a lot more harddisk space available (60GB instead of the poor 30GB drive we had). So we switched to this computer.

Setting up the beast

I think it was last week when Ubuntu 5.10 “The Breezy Badger” was released. Good enough to change. But we had to set up Linux from the beginning, no upgrading since the new computer was configured to be a desktop system, not a server. So installing breezy had to be done.

After the installation process was completed we discovered something strange. The installation disk was labeled “Ubuntu install disk”. But neither Christian nor I thought about it: maybe, just maybe, there’s still the old version on it. Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary. Damn it. Well, ok, at least we could apt-get dist-upgrade it with the new sources.list. But this is time consuming, I tell you.

Configuring

Christian did all the configuration and restoring needed to recreate our old system. He really did a good job, and the machine did a good job too, it is much faster than our old server. A lot of things had to be done: restoring home directories, reinstalling packages, setting up mail, web, mysql… We had a weekly backup and a daily incremental backup, so this was not too frustrating. But then it happened.

The Crash

You wouldn’t believe it. The beast crashed again. My all-so-good 60GB drive started with read errors, write errors and then refused to get mounted. When Christian restarted even the servers BIOS couldn’t find the drive! This is crazy, you know? Two harddisks going mad in three days.

At least I could find another hard drive at home. This is just a 15GB drive – I hope it lasts longer than the other one. Until we get new ones. I really hope it does.

Updates

We now use the new Ubuntu release 5.10 which is called “The Breezy Badger”. This release includes PHP5. There’s nothing wrong with PHP5 except my fotoalbum wordpress plugin doesn’t work with it anymore. The DOM XML extension was replaced with the DOM extension in PHP5. And this is bad because my fotoalbum plugin uses the DOM XML extension.

I rewrote it today for PHP5, so have a look. A lot of ISPs still use PHP4, so try out the fotoalbum wordpress plugin PHP4 version first. If you’re having trouble using it (ie. your site doesn’t load content and loads again when you deactivate my plugin) then your ISP has PHP5 running and you’ll have to use the fotoalbum wordpress plugin PHP5 version. Either way have fun with it!

Use the fotoalbum wordpress plugin page for more information on it.

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2005/10/new-hardware-new-ubuntu-release-new-wordpress-plugin/feed/ 1 Using Drivel to blog to WordPress http://sdm-net.org/2005/09/using-drivel-to-blog-to-wordpress/ http://sdm-net.org/2005/09/using-drivel-to-blog-to-wordpress/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:30:02 +0000 René Samselnig http://www.sdm-net.org/wordpress/?p=8 You can use a GTK+ tool called Drivel (see Image 1) or one called BloGTK to access your WordPress Blog and add posts (like this one). Alternatively there is a Gnome applet named gnome-blog that basically does the same (although Drivel is much more sophisticated). As you may have noticed I’m mentioning tools for Linux [...]

]]> You can use a GTK+ tool called Drivel (see Image 1) or one called BloGTK to access your WordPress Blog and add posts (like this one). Alternatively there is a Gnome applet named gnome-blog that basically does the same (although Drivel is much more sophisticated). As you may have noticed I’m mentioning tools for Linux for I am using Linux as my primary Operating System (about 99% of my time). There exists a list of blogging tools for other OSs like Windows and MAC OS at the WordPress Weblog Client Page.

How to install and use

Drivel is part of my distribution, namely Ubuntu, but it might be added in your distro too. Install it on debian based system with apt-get install drivel. To use Drivel with WordPress you have to choose the Movable Type API (Journal Type, see Image 2 at the left) and the full path to the xmlrpc.php file on your server (i.e. http://www.sdm-net.org/xmlrpc.php).

Editing

It is possible to edit your posts with Drivel. This is a nice feature, since you don’t have to load the whole HTML interface of WordPress. The only thing that goes over the net is the actual data (and some more information like login, method to be called, etc). Another benefit from this is you’ll never expire your session anymore, since you’re not using one. Although I haven’t been able to edit posts yet I’m going to do some experiments on that to find out why. And maybe some googling too :).

Conclusion

Use a non web-based client to post to your site if you’re short of internet traffic or if you have a slow connection. Writing a long article and expiring the session time could also be frustrating when using a web interface.

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2005/09/using-drivel-to-blog-to-wordpress/feed/ 4 WordPress http://sdm-net.org/2005/09/wordpress/ http://sdm-net.org/2005/09/wordpress/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:57:27 +0000 René Samselnig http://www.sdm-net.org/?p=12 Now this is neat! WordPress does what I want. And this is the reason I converted to WordPress. WordPress is a weblog tool based on PHP with a MySQL database and valid XHTML 1.0. I also did a new theme looking like my old Mambo template – with small changes and a CSS file much [...]

]]> Now this is neat! WordPress does what I want. And this is the reason I converted to WordPress. WordPress is a weblog tool based on PHP with a MySQL database and valid XHTML 1.0. I also did a new theme looking like my old Mambo template – with small changes and a CSS file much smaller (about 65% of original size).

What I like about WordPress:

  • Easy to create posts
  • Various blogger tools (like BloGTK, gnome-blog and many more…)
  • The Markdown syntax when posting
  • Very customisable (although Mambo may have more features, since it is a CMS, not a weblog)
  • Valid XHTML
  • Nice and easy to understand backend
  • A lot of online documentation

I really like working with WordPress.

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