Nothing funny about feldspar

I have read that the “more” tag might actually work in RSS feeds again.

We shall see

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I’m trying out a plugin (rss_more) to see if I can get the <!–more–> tag to cut off in RSS-feed posts. Useful for the Sunday Puzzle

(by the way, it seems to work)

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I’m not sure what I did, but Extended Live Archives works now. I think it had something to do with the cache, or maybe I just had to write a new post.

But wait! <checking to be sure>

Oh, that’s odd. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. It seems to work with Safari (which I was using in my development environment, oooh, techie me), but not with Camino or Firefox.

Double phooey.

And here I was going to explain how I “hacked” the code to not include pages in the archive results. (Not like it was hard — I’m real good at following examples…)

Basically, everywhere you see WHERE post_status = 'publish' you have to add AND post_type = 'post'. Sometimes there’s a p. in front of it. I made changes in af-extended-live-archive.php and af-extended-live-archive-include.php

(And by the way, I can still blog from TextMate, I just can’t edit posts there unless I want comments to be turned off automatically.)

Well, I upgraded to WP2.2, and put on some new paint. Designers must hate dilettantes like me — people who wave their hands and ruin their carefully-laid pixel-perfect themes.

Oh well, too bad.

Anyway, I’ve also upgraded the archives, but unfortunately, I can’t seem to make them work! Extended Live Archives worked just fine on my local install, but for some reason (possibly because I’m using php4 here?) it just don’t wanna work. Phooey. But nobody looks at my archives anyway, least of all me.

And for some other reason, I keep getting SQL errors in the admin section. It is teh suck. But, at least I’m up-to-date until the fall, I suppose. Here’s hoping there isn’t any security stuff between now and then. Updating WP is a real pain in the patootie.

Then I read on the TextMate mailing list that the textmate-wordpress link isn’t working properly, because WP changed something on their end. I’m gonna have to get used to seeing the Write Post page, I s’pose.

But, now that’s done I can move on. Sometimes obsessiveness is a failing, because I haven’t done any real work for a few days now while I was putzing about with this.

Do let me know if you have any problems with stuff. As I said, I know about ELA, and I’ve done nothing else except update everything .

Time for lunch.

Plagioclase uses (and swears by) MarsEdit for his blogging client. I tend to compose in TextMate and then copy/paste into the WordPress online posting engine. Now, however, I’m trying out the TextMate Blogging Bundle — using the xmlrpc stuff (see how techie I can talk?) from within TM.

This is my first post. Given how much I rely on seeing the categories list online, it may be my last.