converting2wp

Once upon a time (WP 1.5?) I tried posting an image via e-mail, and, as I recall it worked like a charm.

Now, when I read the codex page and saw “images and attachments will be posted inline,” I understood “inline” to mean the images would appear in the message (and I guess I was hoping for a link to attachments).

But nope. It seems, as reported above, that the encoded data is dumped into the message.

So I’d suggest a minor tweak to clarify the codex page for those like me for whom “inline” isn’t immediately (or even now, completely) understood.

Am I hallucinating that this used to work? Is there any movement towards a plugin on this? Or *should* I be able to get pictures pulled from the e-mail to appear in the blog post?

It doesn’t look like anyone’s asked for this feature in the Ideas section.

[My problem isn’t offline blogging but how to get info from an e-mail list into the blog easily. Preserving formatting would be nice. But this is probably a separate thread.]

Apologies if this is too step-by-step, but it wasn’t that long ago that I needed this level of detail.

When logged in as an admin, your main menu will be # Dashboard Write Manage Links Presentation …
Click Presentation

In the Presentation submenu, you’ll see an item “Theme Editor”. Click that.

Now you can click the file names down the left hand side and edit those files in the text area.

The one you want is probably called Sidebar, sidebar.php or something similar.

Somewhere in that file, there is a call to list_cats (or wp_list_cats). Both are PHP functions. list_cats takes positional parameters. wp_list_cats allows you to specify the parameters with a name/value notation.

You’ll find wp_list_cats documented at
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats

Now if you understand the notion of a function with parameters, you can go from the documentation to create a function call tailored to your specific needs.

Make the change and click “update file” and you’re done.

You don’t need to know much, if anything, about the PHP language to use the WordPress template tags as a very powerful site configuration tool. It may seem odd to get this nitty gritty to do what seems like a simple configuration, but once you’re comfortable with the system, I hope you’ll find the power worth the complexity.

lhk – have you moved on? or do you have time to let us know whether you’ve found anything closer to an acceptable WYSIWYG editor for WordPress?

I, too, have a strong need for WYSIWYG editing in my support for a *very* non-technical community.

What version of WordPress?

If 2.0+, check your profile and make sure that “Use the visual rich editor when writing” is checked.

Thanks. That was the pointer I needed.

Yes, indeed, on Dreamhost, for example, turning off the “extra web security” allows me to publish the file just fine.

I’ve a request in to Dreamhost support to see if the specific code I need could be added to some sort of “whitelist”.

And in the meantime, I’ve found that munging the line with some extra white space is enough to allow the publish to go through even with mod_security turned on. [Which makes me wonder how much “security” is actually being provided …]

If I understand you correctly, you want the list of articles from some other site to appear on a page in your blog. The other site has an RSS feed that “syndicates” its content.

There are probably many ways to do this. The one I’m using is as follows:

1. Install the feedlist plugin, see
http://rawlinson.us/blog/?p=212 and download from
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/rss-linked-list/feedlist.zip

[Put the files on your server in the wp-content/plugins directory and then from the Plugins screen “activate” feedlist.]

2. See the plugin’s readme.txt
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/rss-linked-list/trunk/feedlist/readme.txt
for lots of examples on how to use it. You’ve got two choices –
a) Use the feedlist() function (action) in one of your templates. Go to Presentation > Theme Editor, and then add a call to feedlist() in the PHP code in one or more of those files. The URL of the RSS feed is one of the parameters to feedlist().

b) Use “filter” syntax in a post or a page — just drop a comment into the HTML. See the examples for how to pass the URL to the filter.

Hope that helps. Again, I’m sure there are other suggestions, but I’ll take this opportunity to thank the Feedlist author for the solution I’m using.

While I appreciate the information on the Moving_Wordpress page, is there any plugin (or other option I’ve missed) that would allow “importing from WordPress to WordPress”?

For instance, when moving a site to a completely new server, I’d like to just point at the old server and suck in all the old data. This also might simplify the process of upgrades —

1) Install clean installation/database (often automated by hosting provider)
2) copy in themes, plugins and ???
3) Then just “import” all the content stored in the old database.

This is essentially the process described in the Codex for “Moving to a New Server with Fantastico” but with some automation in the database backup and restore and the changes necessary – so I’m wondering if anyone has done that automation.

Thanks much!