Daily blog updates

As you can see, I rarely update this blog. You can read posts by me daily at Make You Go Hmm. If you’re after WordPress plugins for something hosted yourself, please visit my TD Scripts WordPress plugins.

WordPress plugin SVN access

Got an email late yesterday that I have SVN access for the WordPress plugins I’m creating. It took a week or so to happen for any other developers that are curious.

First Shoutout test

First Shoutout test

(Grouper broke their own link, removed)

Testing Grouper.com video functionality to wordpress.com
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Installing WP on Windows XP locally in less than 10 minutes

Geeks are Sexy writes:

Here's a little guide that will help you install and run WordPress locally on your XP box in less then 10 minutes

Software used: xampp Windows lite
Hat Tip to Darren.

740 WordPress themes and templates … and counting

Emily Robbins is maintaining a nice list of 700+ WordPress 1.5 and 2.0+ themes/templates.

How to add live AJAX search to WP tutorial

The following tutorial, with code, uses the scriptilcious library and some custom code to add a live search to WordPress. I might try this on one of our blogs. AJAX for search on the same page is handy for users.

2.0 download now available

Just noticed tonight that WordPress 2.0 is now available for download.

WordPress 2.0 Theme Design Competition?

Just received the following comment on another blog (verbatim):

I had organise a WordPress 2.0 Theme Design Competition for the very first time. You can check it out at http://kcyap.com/?p=47

I am happy if you can help me to blog about it and send me the link to your entry or you can add your blog link entry to my comment. Im looking forward to get an email from you.

Thanks

That comment is verbatim, including errors. I checked out the blog and it seems like this might be valid but WP 2.0 isn’t even an official released version yet, so I’m wondering about this one.

Anybody else know about this? Also, when is 2.0 coming out officially instead of through the CVS?

Testing OPML Editor Mac version and multiple blogs

I just installed Dave’s OPML Editor on the Mac and then went do download the WordPress.Root and Safari kept wanting to save it as a text file. So I went over to my Windows machine and zipped up the WordPressROOT file and then downloaded from Safari there.

Next, I copied over the WordPress.root file to FINDER->Applications->OPML->apps->Tools directory, per Dave’s instructions. Then it was a matter of choosing the red O in the dock and selecting the menu above:

From here, it was the same as on Windows. Fill out the default values for this blog (username, password and url) and then for my Mac Mode blog which is the other place I’ve been testing this out at today. Now let’s save this and see how it works here.

Testing OPML Editor with multiple blogs

Testing OPML editor with multiple blogs installed. Guess the title kind of covers this one.

Seems like I wasn’t the only one working away at fixing this problem. Cori’s solution is available here which is essentially replacing your WordPress xmlrpc.php file with the one he modified on line 518 and 519 by adding trim to the user login and password in the MetaWeblogAPI section.