It’s been a long time since I went on the search for a plugin that allowed inline post creation. Eventually, my search parameter changed to front page posting, then front-end posting, and thus I arrived at a couple of plugins that promised to do just that!
Currently I am testing Post-From-Site. Once I inserted the php code in sidebar widget, the widget simply brings up a pop-up window that allows me to type in my content, from my site’s front page…without shuttling down the rabbit hole to get to the back end of WordPress. Extremely convenient! One downside to this plugin however is the very simple posting panel that it pops up when you plan to add a post. Which is okay…because once the post is created, you have access to another plugin that allows you to edit the newly created post…all from the comfort and convenience of the front page.
The second plugin is the Front-end Editor, which allows inline–or should I say–edit in place functionality for existing posts. While it doesn’t appear to allow you to create posts on the front end, it has a much more feature-rich post editor than Post-From-Site. It is another amazingly convenient plugin to have, that makes editing your content a breeze! The downside to this editor is that it doesn’t appear to have an option for html coding…I’ll keep reading up on this excellent plugin and hope to learn more about what it’s capable of.
This site, along with several other sites that I manage, will be moving to a Panamanian web hosting company in the next few days. I find it a time-consuming process zipping up a business’s website and emails, along with sundry backup files/documents, for copying to the new web host. It took overnight to compress a 20Gb file through WHM…and there was no end to the browser clocking as the server attempted to fetch the zipped backup. I am attempting to download the tarred file at home through FIOS to see if I have better luck. I’ve also decided to create a backup through cPanel, to see if this process proves more expeditiously than the WHM method. I found a nice how-to on proceeding with a cPanel backup and restore of accounts on the net. And I also found another how-to write up on migrating reseller/multiple accounts.
Day 2 is fraught with headaches: long transfer times, long download times, and unpacking errors at WHM. I am going to have to try unpacking the tarred files manually to force it to run correctly (i.e. /scripts/restorepkg). I’m not sure if this is an issue with tarred files, poor internet speeds, or a quirky server. We shall have to see…
I encountered an unusual situation in which a directory on the web server had exclusive permissions assigned to the root owner only. I had been attempting to ftp an image file to a directory on the server, but I had no permissions to do so, despite that the account I used had FTP rights. I couldn’t change permissions either via telnet (PuTTY) or another FTP client. It took me a bit of research before I figured out that I couldn’t change just the directory itself, but the entire directory including subs and files. To do this, I needed to add the argument “-R” (without the quotations) to recursively change the permissions of all files in all subdirectories of the directory whose permissions were being changed. What worked:
chmod -R 777 filenameordirectory
I had to log in as root via telnet to the server to make the changes.
You would think that with the popularity of blogging and social networking, there would be a neat and easy solution to unify the two. There are dozens of social networking sites…but not every one of them will be open to cross-posting and feed sharing. MySpace and Facebook appear to be quite popular but their APIs prove to be proprietary or too hardened to allow open sharing across the web. I suppose for security and privacy’s sake, this is a great thing…but does it have to be so hard to look up the info you want when it’s already shared out anyway? Facebook–one site I’ve been pulling hair over–appears to be the biggest high-profile offender after shutting down their RSS feeds.
I keep wrestling with the idea of shutting down my other profiles on the net and resist the urge to open up new networks. I’m not here to saturate the internet with my inane ramblings…I just want to share and occasionally jot down my thoughts (or rants) when the writer’s bug strikes.
Anyway, welcome to WordPress 2.8…more happy blogging to come!
The latest version of WordPress hit the streets yesterday. I’ve already begun the process of converting my sites over to 2.8. Check out the beta for ChopperJim.com…which is currently running new versions of WP and NextGEN Gallery.