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I find a lot of S9y and a lot of all sorts of other blogs using Kubrick these days. I guess it is still “cool” for users of other blogging tools, since it wasn’t the default style/theme. I have seen at least one blogging tool for which it is (one of?) the defaults, too. So the gallery should be useful to all kinds of users.

I’m a hurry, so I’ll run along now. Hope that is useful, to someone.

It’s already been done. Here’s the code for “Fixing Private Posts” and here’s my hat-tip.

I beleive some thought needs to go into why private posts are not displayed on the blog at all, and as to what their purpose in life might be, in 1.5 at least

The instructions are pretty detailed.

If you find the collapsible menu items in the menu on the right in his weblog, he provides details on how to implement the collapsible items. You have his permission and his stylesheet too.

I wrote a tutorial on how to blog by email a while ago. Of course, if there is something wrong with the tutorial, you can can edit it quite easily, at the wiki. The WordPress way of blogging by email is very simple, but requires a cron job to check for new mails periodically. wp-keitai-mail does not need a cron job. It does need a few extra things though, but if you can’t do without moblogging, then go get it.

One of the other blog-by-email developments I have noticed is the improved wp-mail.php from John Blade.

It has all the abilities of the current wp-mail.php plus:

* Allows image attachments (posts inline)
* Checks if user email address is in the database (otherwise discards message)
* Allows other file attachments (zip’s, exe’s, etc)
* Fairly good cleaner for removing excessive line breaks

I should say that if it does all that it says, John Blade’s enhancement to wp-mail.php should be an useful addition to a WordPress blog.

Also of note is this fix for an error that seems to be quite common when using the blog by email feature.

* seen at BloggingPro

Sometimes I need to sort and edit categories for my past posts.

says the LcF Weblog, bringing to light a useful hack by Stephanie Booth.

Batch Categories 0.9 is a useful hack for those of use who are obsessed with arranging and re-arranging things. You can reassign categories for a whole bunch of posts simultaneously, without having to edit each post individually. This can be pretty useful after you import your posts from some other system, or like I mentioned earlier, to just rearrange things a bit.

Here’s a solution that modifies the upload.php file that ships with WordPress so you also get some code you can use to include the thumbnail in your post.

This was originally posted in the forums. I still think it will be a useful addition to the WordPress package.

The hack home page has links to what looks like useful documentation too. I wonder, though whether a more elegant solution to the problem of adding static pages is not being worked out right now, using the “static” post option that has been around in the latest WordPress code.

In any case, this hack should be useful for new users, who want to extend the capabilities of their v1.2 install. A small problem with extensive hacks like this is that the author of the hack may have to rework some parts when a new version of WordPress comes out.

Allan uses symbolic links, a modified wp-config.php and a file with a few functions to create multiple WordPress blogs, presumably one each for his family members, running off of the same set of WordPress files. The simplicity of the solution is amazing.

Read more about his solution in his article on Choosing and configuring the engine for mertner.com. He explains the process in sufficient detail, and it should be possible to follow the instructions there to create multiple blogs on a server.

While at his site, please also read his article on creating static pages, which reads easy as a tutorial to use the Faked Folder plugin. It infact tells you how to do it for multiple sites. The Faked Folder plugin allows you to create static pages linked to your wordpress blog.

Ruben’s MultiSite hack is an alternative solution to the multiple WordPress blogs problem. To quote him :

The general idea is to make a directory named sites under the current wp install and then making both a multi-conf.ini file and the corresponding directories under it. This approach uses the host part of the HTTP request to figure out which sites/dir to use and parse the wp-config.php inside it. After it has parsed it, it silently include()s the main wp-config.php which will define the variables (host, db etc) only if they have not been defined already.

If you cannot wait till WordPress comes out with a version that supports multiple blogs, then you can use these hacks to acheive what you need.

So what are purple links?
Purple Links, or plinks as Simon Willison calls them, are a way to provide linkable anchors to all the paragraphs and other sub-elements on a page. Just so you can link to say, the third paragraph in a page. This can be quite useful when someone want’s to quote what you said in a long article. A link to the appropriate paragraph or sentence might be more appropriate than a link to just the article, as the reader who follows that link can see the context of the quoted statement more easily. An example might be in order here. Here’s one:

Simon Willison says that Javascript could have a bright future.

(Note: Notice how the link takes you to the last paragraph, which I linked-to using the URI http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/05/30/plinks#p-13)

GFMorris has a better solution that allows for better control over how the alternate comments are displayed, by giving the user two classes that can then be styled whichever way the user desires.

Personally I am a fan of LaughingLizard’s Threaded Comments Hack, which lets you reply to a particular comment among many comments, and threads the display too. It can be seen at work here.

Providing a seperate page of Search Results with WordPress is a neat article explaining the long of short of how to make WordPress’ search results look like, well, search results using a seperate page to display the search results (WordPress, by default uses index.php for displaying the search results).

Raena’s solution, on the other hand, enables you to stop WordPress from redirecting the searcher to the matching post, without any explanation, and to add a friendlier note to head off the search results.

Finally, Mark Ghosh has a 404 page enhancement that redirects visitors to pages that may be similar to the ones they requested. I wish it was more user-friendly by including a note to the visitor saying that the exact page was not found, and that the page he/she is about to see might be the right match.

Adding an image to your RSS 2.0 feed is known to be perfectly harmless, and can add some color and jazz to your feeds in the feed-readers’ display. Of course, the effect is entirely cosmetic, but heck, if you can spend hours modifying the design of your blog, why not spend a few minutes modifying how your feed is displayed in readers, considering the fact that a lot of your regular readers might be using a feed reader?

To add an image to the RSS 2.0 feed created by your WordPress weblog, create an image (the maximum value for the width and height for RSS 2.0 feeds are 144 and 400 respectively), upload it to your wp-content folder, which is intended to hold all user-content, and edit your wp-rss2.php file/template to include the image. Change the permissions of the wp-rss2.php file to 666, and you can use WordPress’ in-built template editor to do the editing.

Here is the relevant portion from WordLog’s RSS 2.0 feed :
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<channel>
<title><?php bloginfo_rss('name') ?></title>
<link><?php bloginfo_rss('url') ?></link>
<description><?php bloginfo_rss("description") ?></description>
<image>
<link>http://wordlog.com/</link>
<url>http://wordlog.com/wp-content/feedlogo.jpg</url>
<title>wordlog.com</title>
</image>
<copyright>Copyright <?php echo mysql2date('Y', get_lastpostdate()); ?></copyright>
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While you are at her Project Blog, do check out her plugins, and if you want a plugin or a hack that you think might also be useful to others, you can request her too.

Brice has an interesting Video Blogging Script that enables him to post Videos from his Sony-Ericsson P900 over GPRS to his WordPress blog. How cool is that?

My first video post… World First ?

Good question, we don’t know the definitive answer to that!

A preliminary search of the premises did not reveal any downloadable scripts for the use of WordLog readers, and I hope Brice will oblige us all soon.

<a href="images/foo.png"> in your index.php template, or your posts, then it will not work properly, since it will automatically become something like
<a href="http://example.com/archives/post/images/foo.png">

The usual work around is not to use relative links in your template, or posts.

But in case you want to, you can use the w3 org recommendation and add a base URI to your index.php, which looks like :
<base href="http://www.youwebsite.com/">
to the index.php file, in the “head” section. This should prevent the relative links from getting botched.

Originally seen at the Support Forums.

Thanks to chiensavant for posting the solution and Ali_ix for bringing it to my notice.

1. RogotWorld
2. Jason’s smiley collection

Add the new smileys to wp-images/smilies and then add new “text shortcuts” to smilies (like

) in wp-includes/vars.php.