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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY — I bragged awhile ago that I finally had a plugin that would automatically post Facebook comments to my cross-posted entries here on the blog. Thanks to the wizards at Facebook (may they forever rotate in a rotisserie), the plugin stopped working about two weeks ago. The developer is working on a fix to the plugin, but knowing FB’s habitual tweaking of, well, everything, the code will need to be revised — again — in the near future. Grumble, grumble. Possibly related posts:
JISHOU, HUNAN — A while ago, I linked this blog to my Facebook account. My posts here are automatically imported into my FB Notes. Once upon a time, I had another plugin that extracted comments to the imported Notes from FB back here. But it stopped working, and its developer gave up working on it. But another developer stepped in to restore the functionality. Facebook Comments TNG works! I installed it just now, and it pulled comments from FB perfectly. Now, I may have to go through them and edit out duplicates, but that’s a minor irritation compared to having to manually copy-and-paste FB comments myself. Possibly related posts:
 Is this what you see on your phone? I’ve tested it with Opera Mini on my Nokia e63, and it does just what I want. But I’ve had less success with the built-in Nokia browser, which insists on using the site’s default theme for computer-based browsers. What I need is folks with iPhones, iPads, Blackberries, Palms, Windows smartphones and Android smartphones to visit my site and tell me what you see. You should see something like this. Please leave a comment using your phone by clicking on this post’s headline, and scrolling to the bottom of the page. Or, if that doesn’t work, visit the site with your computer and comment, or comment in Facebook Notes. Thanks! Possibly related posts:
JISHOU, HUNAN — Website maintenance is a pain, but at least WordPress makes it easy to do. A few weeks ago, I upgraded to the most recent version of WP, using the automatic update feature. This latest version is reportedly more secure and quicker loading. I had only one glitch that I only discovered yesterday: the archives plugin (in the left sidebar, click on “Archives by Title”) was not working with the new WP version. Installing the latest version of the plugin (SmartArchives) and making one change in the HTML for that page removed the glitch. Today I upgraded to the latest version of the Atahualpa theme I use. This new version has an admin page that tweaks every single setting of the theme. As I discovered, if you don’t visit the admin page and start saving settings, your blog will be virtually blank. I’ve got it about 97% done, enough that the site looks much the same as it did yesterday. I still want to enlarge the post headline font size and make the header area a bit better looking, but those can wait for now. As for my activity in the real world, I’m halfway through a week-long holiday. On Friday, I tutored a student in the afternoon, and on Saturday, had tutorials in the morning and afternoon. Saturday evening, I went to a party, about which I may blog later. Sunday was the first sunny day in several and I had the whole day free. Possibly related posts:
JISHOU, HUNAN — Whilst traveling last week, I tried sending posts from my phone to the blog, with less than wonderful results. Don’t get me wrong, the wp-mail.php script is a great feature of WordPress. You set up a secret email account, point WP to check the account, and it will take plaintext messages and post them on your blog. It didn’t work so smoothly for me, though. First, my account with China Mobile doesn’t seem to have email services, but I can send multimedia messages. When I tried that with WordPress, it just took the MIME portion of the message and printed it as ASCII gobbledegook. So, I took the same message and sent it first to Gmail, which did display the text. But forwarding that message without the MIME attachment to WP just resulted in a blank post. In the end, I had to use a browser to post the blogs. Clearly, I need to enable email services on my mobile account. It will make blogging while traveling a little more spontaneous. Possibly related posts:
JISHOU, HUNAN — Since I am all into this Web 2.0 shtick, a few months ago I signed up for a Twitter account. Then I did nothing with it. Until today. Twitter is great if you have mobile Web access. I was using a prepaid T-mobile account in the USA, and we prepaid peons get no Web joy from T-mobile. My situation is not much better here in China: no Web access, but for some odd reason I can send MMS emails out, but not receive emails. Well, it seemed to me that if Twitter is such hot stuff, it would allow you tweet using email. As if. Twitter.com has no such service in place, though it seems painfully easy to implement. A quick Google search turned up a third-party solution: twittermail.com. Twittermail gives you a secret email address. When you send a message to that addy, it automatically becomes a tweet. I tried it, and it works! Whether I actually use the service to tweet now remains to be seen, but at least I know I can do it when I want to, from anywhere in China. (China Mobile service is pretty universal here.) Then I got to thinking. Is there a plugin for WordPress that would send out a tweet when I post to the blog? Several, as it turns out. I am trying one out with this post, WP-to-Twitter. If it works as advertised, whenever I post to the blog, that news becomes a tweet, with a shortened link for people to click. Possibly related posts:
JISHOU, HUNAN — Before I upgraded WordPress and trashed my MySpace layout overlay, I had a WP plugin that automatically inserted my posts into my MySpace page. That plugin, MySpace Crossposter, doesn’t work anymore. The new code in WP 2.6 effectively killed it, and its developer (it seems) is not maintaining the plugin anymore. What to do? I rarely visit MySpace. I’m more a Facebook man. But I would like to advertise this blog on MySpace to get more readers, so I needed a replacement for the outmoded plugin. The solution is easy. Use a widget to grab your WP blog’s (or any) RSS feed and insert it into your MySpace profile. I found a nice little news feed widget at SpringWidgets. Enter your blog’s RSS feed URL, customize the look of the widget, then copy and paste the code into your MySpace profile. No plugin woes! Here’s what it looks like.
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