Apr 13
This is very impressive. With Vimpress, you can publish/edit WordPress blog posts from within Vim, like I am doing now. It works great too. This brings together my favorite editor and my favorite blogging platform… Its been around for a while, I only found out today!
UPDATE:
I did find that the plugin does not play well in Vim compiled with python disabled. Vim throws a lot of errors when loading the vimpress plugin (blog.vim file). Adding the following lines before the command! lines in blog.vim addresses this:
if !has("python")
finish
endif
Cheers!
Sep 25
Just finished updating this blog to WordPress 2.3. I moved from using categories to using tags - since I was using categories more like tags.
I love the iTheme theme. I haven’t heard if it has been updated to be used with WordPress 2.3. My version of iTheme that worked with 2.2.* worked as-is with 2.3. I did make some small changes to use tags instead of categories.
Things seem to be working at this moment. If you find something missing/wrong, drop a comment.
Jun 26
If you have a WordPress blog and use Google Analytics to track its usage, you should consider using one of the following plugins:
Both considerably simplify Google Analytics usage with WordPress. You don’t have to open any WordPress file and physically enter the Analytics code. This is especially important if you change your WordPress theme every once a while - or may be upgrade to a later version of a theme.
I personally prefer the one from Semiologic because it ignores your hits if you are logged in as a author, editor or the admin. Without this feature, I was getting too many false hits on '/?p=XX&preview=true' every time I wrote a new post using Save and Continue Editing feature of WordPress.
Nov 22
Earlier it was flock; and today I came across this Dashboard widget called WordPressDash.
It’s fascinating how many different ways there can be to publish a post with WordPress!
Nov 06
After switching to WordPress I was trying to get custom theme going for my blog, instead of using the WordPress default theme.
I finally got down to getting one online yesterday. The new theme MMA Watch is remotely based on the default WordPress theme. Moreover I’ve set it up so that I can periodically change the header image to share one of the better photographs I keep taking every now-and-then.
If I manage to accumulate a collection of such photographs, I wish to make a random selection of the header image. Every visit, you’ll see a different theme!
More later…
Oct 16
I’ve been planning this for quite a while - switch this blog to WordPress. Finally got to it this weekend. As I post this first one from WordPress, I can tell you, it feels great so far!
How to transfer all my old Blogger posts to WordPress? That was the only hold-up. A quick search on Google pointed me to WordPress Blogger Importer wiki. Followed the wiki entry step-by-step and all my old posts were in the WordPress database with fair amount of ease. There was one glitch though, for some reason, I had to move around some code to get the importer to work. Anyway, a little categorization later, I had the old Blogger posts all transfered to what you are seeing now!
Default WordPress theme looks pretty good to start with. I may end up using a readily available theme in the short run - may be create my own theme later. But for now this is it!
Until next time…
Mahesh.