Schadenfreude » wordpress http://www.ralree.com Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:18:37 +0000 en hourly 1 Using Vimpress http://www.ralree.com/2009/02/28/test-post-using-vimpress/ http://www.ralree.com/2009/02/28/test-post-using-vimpress/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:34:32 +0000 Erik http://www.ralree.com/2009/02/28/test-post-using-vimpress/ I’m regaining some functionality I haven’t had for a long time today. Back in the old days, I used to use [Flog](http://www.ralree.com/2006/09/02/changing-up-the-flogging/”) to post to Typo, but that all went away with Mephisto (I couldn’t get XMLRPC to work properly). So, I’m trying [Vimpress](http://friggeri.net/blog/2007/07/13/vimpress). Hopefully, I won’t need to hack together Ultimate Tag Warrior into Wordpress 2.8 to get tagging from vim to work.

##Update
It looks like it’s working, as a matter of fact. I installed the [Markdown for Wordpress and bbpress](http://mitcho.com/code/) plugin, and immediately my post was fixed up with nice new syntax. Tags work without any additional plugins using Wordpress 2.8. Go Vimpress!

##Update 2
As you can probably see on the sidebar, I added a vimpress repository to GitHub, since it was lacking one before. You can now use vimpress simply by performing a git clone git://github.com/hank/vimpress.git .vim. I went ahead and patched it with the custom slug options mentioned in the main vimpress site’s comments. Both versions are available as [tags on GitHub](http://github.com/hank/vimpress/downloads).

##Update 3
I happened to get to wonder how secure XML-RPC was, so I did a nice little wireshark packet capture, and lo-and-behold, there was my password in plaintext HTTP. I was aghast – why couldn’t they do a little HTTP-Digest authentication or something at least? Anyway, after researching what people think of this, and finding only past vulnerabilities in Wordpress, not complaints that it’s just a **bad idea to use insecure XML-RPC for blog posting**, I tried putting an s in front of my HTTP. Guess what – ***It Worked!*** I have to give props to Python for having that all built in.

So now, thanks to Site5’s free-to-use server certificates, I can now use XML-RPC securely.

]]> http://www.ralree.com/2009/02/28/test-post-using-vimpress/feed/ 1 GitHub Gist Plugin http://www.ralree.com/2009/02/28/github-gist-plugin/ http://www.ralree.com/2009/02/28/github-gist-plugin/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:42 +0000 Erik http://www.ralree.com/?p=22394 Look how awesome this plugin is!  Just typing [gist id="72075"] gets you:

More information here. I wanted to change the appearance a little, so I did this to my theme in Wordpress:

I love that.

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There are a few ways to install.

  1. Download from here.  The most recent stable release will be available.  As of this writing, it’s REL-1.3.
  2. Clone the git repository: git clone git://github.com/hank/github-widget.git
  3. Get it through Wordpress (Work in Progress)

If you use one of the first 2 methods, just drop the resultant directory into wp-content/plugins/.

Using any of the three methods, after you have it installed, go to the Admin panel, Plugins -> Installed.  Then, activate the plugin.  Then, go to Appearance -> Widgets.  Put it into a sidebar, and go look at the results.

Please report any errors or problems as a comment to this post.

UPDATE: I just found out that my minimal searching for ‘Github’ in the plugins area, which found no results when I tried it, was insufficient.  I should have used Google.  Oh, well – at least I know how a widget works now!

]]> http://www.ralree.com/2009/02/28/github-widget-for-wordpress/feed/ 7 Making Wordpress live in a subdirectory http://www.ralree.com/2009/02/18/making-wordpress-live-in-a-subdirectory/ http://www.ralree.com/2009/02/18/making-wordpress-live-in-a-subdirectory/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:08:26 +0000 Erik http://www.ralree.com/?p=22174 I found an interesting article today about Wordpress.  It was how to make it live in another directory. I needed that, so I followed the instructions, and it worked. Wordpress is so much easier to install and configure than Mephisto.  It’s even easier to use than Mephisto.  I can see almost no reason anyone would want to use Mephisto anymore, other than nostalgia – Wordpress has really cleaned up its act.  It seems the most recent public vulnerabilities to it were apparently way back in 2.3 (I’m on 2.8).  So, I recommend my readers either get some hosting and start their own installation, or jump over to Wordpress.com and make one of their own!

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When will people learn that it’s not good? Someday hopefully.

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Wordpress is a joke!!

Mephisto Wins!

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