Undecided

A couple of posts back, I talked about possibly putting a WordPress blog on my (work) desktop for work notes.  One of the problems that I’ve been having with the work implementation of WordPress is that I cannot manage files (or upload them) to the wordpress installation, and the spell check function in the wordpress editor doesn’t work properly.  I’ve not had time yet to troubleshoot the problem in house (need to get a machine and replicate the environment in order to determine if there is something wrong with the work environment vs the scripts themselves.)

I found this post on iis.net which talks about issues with PHP, file upload and Frontpage.

http://forums.iis.net/t/1147328.aspx

Oh how I hate Frontpage.

$current_plugins = get_option(’active_plugins’);
if (in_array(’plugindir/pluginfile.php’, $current_plugins)) {
// The plugin is active
}

The above code is useful for developing a theme around certain code.  This is important because a couple of projects I’m working on are intended to integrate external applications (that I’ve written) with WordPress to permit me to automate some work tasks via my website (and record the wine tasting journal so that my g/f can browse it via the website for everything that we’ve tasted before and what we thought about it.)

Fortes created a really nice “Post Levels” plugin which I used back at WP 2.2. Unfortunately, I recall testing this with a later release and it didn’t work properly so I backed out all of the code and the plugin that made this blog work. However, after finding his website again, I see that he hasn’t updated the plugin in over a year. So I’m going to give it a test run again. If it doesn’t work, well, then I have the original code and I’ll give it a shot trying to bring it current.

While poking around though, i came across this nice Dynamic Layout Library that he developed. I’ve been putting some thought in to reskinning my blog again. I’m not sure that I like this layout as much as I could. And tinkering with my blog is a useful waste of time.

PS, looks like the original author might be spending some time to bring it current. I’m going to be pooring over the code to learn how he did what he did. Maybe I can support him, and maybe the knowledge will be useful for a couple of other projects I’m working on.

PPS, my editorial skills sometimes suck and I end up making multiple edits to get a post looking right. I get complimented all the time on my authoring skills, but people rarely realize just how much effort goes in to “getting it right.” Every once in a while, I like to leave a post in with edit notes to show people just how often I make mistakes. I am, after all (and contrary to popular belief), only human.

Thanks to Lester Chan for highlighting the config settings for turning off revisioning and for modifying the autosave feature.  It appears that these two are closely linked.  Useful for my personal blog since there is only one editor here.  Not as useful for the corporate blog I manage for my employer, since there are multiple editors.  Still, they may want to reduce the frequency of auto saves at some point in the future, and it’ll be good to have those notes here to look back on.

One of the irritating feature for me in WordPress 2.6 is the post revision. I am the only author of my blog and hence this feature is useless to me.

Just in case you are wondering how post revision works, whenever a post is auto saved or edited, a new row will be created in wp_posts table. Hence if WordPress auto saved 10 times, you will have 10 new rows in wp_posts table.

In no time your wp_posts table will be filled up and the post ID will be huge.

To turn off this feature, add this following code to wp-config.php:

define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);

To change the timing (in seconds) WordPress auto saves a post, add this following code to wp-config.php:

define(‘AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’, 60);

You can also delete all post revisions by running this query in phpMyAdmin:

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘revision’;

Be sure to backup your database first before performing any queries in phpMyAdmin.