Category Archives: WordPress

Matt responds to all the “noise”.
If I could devote one-tenth of the energy Matt does to Free Software I’d be happy with myself, so I’m glad he has defended himself so well.
I wonder if I’d be allowed to host a few Google ads for WordPress.org here?

Is there no end to this guy’s talent? Kae came up with a way of tracking hits to external links that only requires you include some javascript, and that adds an onclick() event to each link on your page! I’ll be pumping that into WPMU as soon as I can!
This webmaster world thread discusses the effect lots of 302 redirects is having on Google. I’m trying to figure out if my 302 redirects is having the same affect. 🙁

New WPMU snapshot:

• wpmu-2005-03-15.tar.gz
• wpmu-2005-03-15.zip

Changes:
I removed several options not required in a multi-blog environment and introduced a bug that blanked the siteurl when any of the general options was changed. Fixed.
Lots of changes to WP Core too.
The WPMU admin manager should be considered very experimental – don’t run on a production server or very bad things will happen!
More: Change log

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s snapshot comes another:

• wpmu-2005-03-12.tar.gz
• wpmu-2005-03-12.zip

Lots of fixes, and WPMU runs in PHP safe mode now, and with Smarty security enabled.
Things may break with php su exec and other unusual things so please report them in the forum!
As usual, the change log has more details.

I may take a look at Ryan’s Reduced Rewrite Plugin later. It might make it possible for each blog owner in a WPMU community to have their own permalink structure instead of the usual one that everyone gets.

An all-new, all-singing snapshot is now available. The mu website is going through some updating so you can download the files from here instead:

• wpmu-2005-03-11.tar.gz
• wpmu-2005-03-11.zip

Hold off on downloading for a while. The SVN repository is down right now and the archives above are corrupted. I’ll post fixed files later. They’re fine now.

Changes:
I rolled in a big patch by Dasher, including Derek Ditch’s wpmu manager. It also included BAStats so you have yet another way of telling where people come to your site from!
Lots of other fixes and additional features, check the change log for more.
Post questions to the support forum if you have problems.

I installed the Recent Comments Plugin here and it’s rather nice! I wrapped it in a small Smarty function in the usual way and I’ll probably include it in the next snapshot.
Call it by adding “{get_recent_comments}” to your template!

I received a trackback from this blog entry(remove the “__” to see the post) to this post on my blog. Strange eh? Then I checked my referer stats and found a hit from a Google search for Google Images Beware trackback to that vi post. Naughty naughty blog owner – you could have at least read my post to see if it was related!

After quite a bit of debugging and hacking I have “asides” working in WPMU now. Hopefully I can publish a new release early next week , so send your patches to me at donncha @ linux.ie if you want them included.
I also noticed a spelling typo – edit your post.html and change {the_category seperator=", "} to {the_category separator=", "} – otherwise your category separator will be ignored!

Update – I created a Smarty plugin that checks the category array for “Asides”. This means you can have an asides-format post that’s also in your humour category. Wait for the new release of WPMU for the plugin!

If you want to update your install so you can post asides do the following:

Create a category called “Asides”.

Edit wp-inst/index.php and look for the following line:
$content .= $wpsmarty->fetch( 'post.html' );
Insert two lines before that one:

$category = get_the_category();
$wpsmarty->assign( “category”, $category[0]->cat_name );

Edit your post.html so it looks like this:

{the_date d=” before='<p class=”date”>’ after='</p>’}
{if $category != ‘Asides’}
{is_aside}
{if $is_aside == false}
…..
…..
most of the body of the comments template goes here.
…..
…..
{else}
<div class=”storyContent”><p>{get_the_content} {comments_popup_link zero='(0)’ one='(1)’ more='(%)’}</p></div>
{/if}
{link_pages before='<br />Pages: ‘ after='<br />’ next_or_number=’number’}

The code I added is in italics. Note that asides won’t be filtered by the automatic filters. Is there a way of getting the post content without “echo”ing it out? I need to replace the last </p> of the content because it pushes the comments link down way too much! That means returning it and feeding it into a Smarty modifier. (ie. {the_content|regex_replace:”/^<\/p>$/”:””} doesn’t work because nothing is returned.)
(If WordPress mangles the code above, take a look at my post.html for a clearer explanation.
(If you’re wondering, I’m using the “KDE About” star as an icon for aside entries.)