SteamSHIFT

Presenting Version 1.3 of my Wordpress Category Cloud widget. This one is compatible with Wordpress 2.1 (use Category Cloud Widget Version 1.2 for earlier versions of Wordpress). As before, the credit goes to sw-guide.de for the original Category Tagging plugin on which this is based; and also Alex for getting a version of this running under 2.1.

NB: Unlike Alex’s version, this widget is self contained and does not require the Category Tagging plug-in.

SteamSHIFT out.

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My friend Joe has recently released his first mac application (a plugin actually):

WordpressExport

If you have a mac, use iPhoto and wish you had an easy way to upload photos to your Wordpress blog then look no futher than WordpressExport. Its an iPhoto plugin that lets you easily select and upload photos.

This is a work in progress so may still contain a few bugs, if you do find any un-expected behaviour please let me know so I can fix/improve it. Registration will be available as soon as I get time to sort it out.

Give it a go - it works pretty well! Laters. SteamSHIFT out.

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I was having some problems with a post with a bit of javascript in it (I was replacing the object / embed stuff for the YouTube flash movie in Time Fountain, with a way of doing it that wouldn’t cause validation errors. I’m using deconcept %u203A SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script, to dynamically build the flash embed, and insert it into a DIV.

Anyway Wordpress was making a total mess of it, so after some hunting I found the TextControl plugin which allows you to switch off all the automatic formatting and character encoding on a global or per post basis. And now, my javascript works perfectly.

SteamSHIFT out.

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After a few people have had problems with the old widget, where the version of the Category Tagging plugin had been updated, thus breaking the widget, and with the debugging help of Nicholas Feasey, now available is a new version. This version has imported the plugin code (Category Tagging Plugin), so I can only claim to have connected all the dots as it were. The upshot of this is that the widget can now operate independently of the plugin; hopefully this will make it easier.

Download Category Cloud Widget Version 1.2

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A little while ago I moved my blog from Blojsom to Wordpress - for anyone who might find it useful, here is the php script I used to automate most of that process. I’ll try and post a new, tidier version down the line.

Download my Blojsom to Wordpress Importer.

Just put it in the web folder of your site, fill in the details at the top of the file and visit the page with a web browser. It’s clunky but it worked for me! Usual caveats - no guarantees, or warranty - if anything goes wrong, it’s not my responsibility! NB: it currently requires the PEAR DB library.

SteamSHIFT out.

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A simple update to the widget I made for the Category Tagging plugin: you now specify the parameters for the tag cloud in the widget control. Download the widget.

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Real quick post for really quickly knocked up widget. So I decided to stop using categories as categories and use them as tags; much more straightforward. I’m using the Category Tagging plugin which is really neat and works really well. However, I wanted to use it a widget. So here is my first widget: all it does is grab the cloud from the Category Tagging plugin and display it. It needs all the Category Tagging plugin options connecting to the widget control interface rather than being hard coded; but it works! Here is the CSS I used (I put it at the bottom of the stylesheet)

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