Brandurile e naspa!

În ultimul timp am ocupat memoria serverului aiurea cu articole scrise la nervi în momentul în care aveam o nemulţumire în legătură cu o firmă sau alta.

Fie că mă plângeam de UPC sau RDS, Vodafone sau Cetelem, firea mea nu mi-a permis să trec cu vederea abuzurile grosolane pe care societăţile româneşti la fac în mod constant.

Pentru mine situaţia e oarecum roză. Am un blog, cu un trafic bunicel şi câţiva cititori fideli, pe care pot să mă plâng la orice oră de firmele care îşi bat joc de timpul meu; dar pentru o persoană care nu deţine nici blog, nici cont de twitter, situaţia este mult mai neagră. Pentru acele persoane şi nu numai am dezvoltat, în cooperare cu @necenzurat, ( cred eu că ) primul site de anti-branding din Romania.

Un site pe care oricine să se poată plânge de serviciile proaste pe care compania X sau Y le oferă. Blogul nou poate fi vizitat la adresa http://enaspa.com

How to move your self-hosted WordPress blog to Blogger?

There are some side effects, you will lose almost all of your user data and tags.

1. First of all you need to replace your export.php in the WordPress "wp-admin\includes" directory with the version that i made and can be found here. This will strip all of the post tags ( you must leave them behind because it will flood your blogger account with tags ). The categories will become tags instead.
2. Now go to Tools -> Export in the wordpress admin interface and export the blog as xml ( if you have more than 50 posts, it's a good idea to export only part of the data , blogger won't import files that are larger than 1 MB [ but it will give the impression that it dose' ] )
3. Go to http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/ and convert your file to the bolgger xml format.
4. Go to Settings -> Basic -> Import Blog and upload the blogger xml file then fallow the instructions there. 

Known Fixes:

• Blogger seams to be importing your posts but the posts do not appear in the "Edit Posts" tab? This is because you are trying to import more than blogger can take. Try to brake the data in to separated xml files and import them separately ( repeating the steps 3-4 for each of the xml file ) .
• Some articles are looking weird? This is usually a problem in the conversion between WordPress understanding of html and the blogger html. Try passing the posts trough wordpad ( you will lose the links in the process ) 
• Comments that had a picture in WordPress have no picture on blogger? Sorry, nothing to do here...
• All of the post's have the same author? Blogger won't import multiple authors , sorry.
• Where are all of the pictures? Pictures are not imported, but you can activate your missing file host setting in Settings -> Publishing and try to mimic the old WordPress upload structure on the attached sub-domain. ( i didn't test this, yet )

Update 1 :

It seams that you can do the same thing with an wordpress.com account but you first have to export the content than import it in to a localhost WordPress server so you can proceed with step 1.

Gata cu Mutarea

Gata. Am terminat de mutat 3 ani de posturi si comentarii de pe blogul wordpress pe acest blog dar, ca la orice mutare, unele lucruri s-au pierdut pe drum. O lista cu pagube:

• Posturile mele si ale lui Mari s-au incurcat si acum toate sunt pe numele meu. Nu se poate repara asta.
• Pozele de la comentatori nu s-au putut aduce. Cred ca e o problema blogger - gravatar.
• Pozele si fisierele din posturi nu sa-au putut porta . Poate intr-un viitor sa le ia cineva la mana pe toate...
• E posibil sa fi ratat din posturi datorita inportului de cacaua marca google.
• Toate tagurile aditionale de pe wordpress au fost sterese si s-au pastrat doar categoriile.

O alta parte urata de tot e ca tot pagerankul si seo-ul s-au pierdut ca urmare a transferului asa ca trebuie sa muncesc din nou ca sa ma fac observat de google.

Update:

Urmeaza sa fac rost si de un host gratuit pentru file sistem si asfel sa imi fac blogul permanent complet free.

Bafta, eu ma intorc la treaba serioasa de webdeveloper.

Pentru Developeri Wordpress

Daca faci un plugin nu mai lega functia de start a pluginului de output buffering-ul php-ului!!

function start_Gheorghe(){

// Cod aici...

}

ob_start("start_Gheorghe'');

Da si tu un ochi peste documentatia php si o sa vezi ca ei au facut functia "ob_start" ca sa permita programatorului sa faca DEBUG. Nu ca sa o folosesti tu pentru a te "baga in fata" altor pluginuri.

Daca ai nevoie sa binduiesti ceva la startup foloseste add_action ( 'init', 'start_Gheorghe').

Bun, presupunand ca vrei sa introduci un header custom si nu ai altcumva cum, foloseste ob_start() dar nu da echo sau print out!! Pentru ca vei fute automat toate pluginurile care au fost introduse cu bun simt prin functia de init a wordpress-ului.

Multumesc anticipat,

Administratia

WP-LatestPost

Think about this:

You've just posted a new article but all your visitors are busy reading other posts. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just live notify them that a new post has been written and give them a link to it?

Now you can with "WP-LatestPost"!!

* Feel free to customize the plugin.
* Have in mind that i made this plugin for my blog and I am sharing it here because i have nothing else better to do.

WP-BoxCast Bug

I have received a lot of mails about a suposed bug in the WP-BoxCast plug-in, a bug that will allow people to log-in in to my box.net music account.

It's true, but you don't have to worry, the bug is in the beta version that i use on darkx-studios.com. It does not work on the wordpress version of the plug-in.

The bug, that i have to fix but don't have the time, is because i manage to bypass the limited bandwidth that box.net gives me.  But for that to work you have to be logged-in, so that box.net thinks i am listening to the music and not you guys.

I have a few ideas about how to fix it, but i don't really have the time now. Don't worry, the plug-in is save an secure, but has limited bandwidth.

Pleas don't mess with the account, it's not a hack.. and you are not a hacker if you do so, you are just an asshole.

PS: I want to thank all the people that noticed me by e-mail, yo were a big help.

WP-SnapAvatar

This plugin is currently broken because the provider is now limiting the number of request from the plugins api key. I am currently searching for a new provider for the snapshots and i will update the plugin as soon as possible.

It's pretty annoying when people that comment on your blog don't have a gravatar. Wordpress gives them a default picture, or if you have the plugin a geometric image.
Now, I've got another alternative: Their blog's screenshot!! All you have to do is fallow the steps in install.

• Feel free to customize the plugin.
• Have in mind that this is the beta and I expect some bugs.

What's new in 1.1??

• Added urlencode() to the plugin so now you can safely pass variables to websnapr.com
• By adding urlencode() i fixed the size bug.

What's new in 1.2??

• Added snapshots support to tracebacks using If().
• Added an explode() function to parse long webadressex ( ex: http://site.com/site/site2/site3.html ) .

What's new in 1.3?? - Nothing, i just fixed a big big bug :))

What's new in 1.4??

• Fixed compatibility with Ajax Edit Comments. Replaced the end statement with return.

What's new in 1.5??

• Preventing google bot and other bots from indexing the plugin's folder and fixed the plugin direct link bug.

More good things to come, until then: You can download the plugin from wordpress.

If you like this, you will love WP-LatestPost

Update la 2.5

DarkX-Studios.com a trecut si el la wordpress 2.5 , dupa ce am rezolvat erorile datorate codulul "custom" am descoperit ca am multe functii noi si interesante :P Dintre care pot sa enumar :

• Autosave - (mana cereasca mai ales cand imi pica netul)


• Admin Design Clear - (au mai curatat si ei din interfata, credeam ca ma inec in casute)


• Add Media - (scripturi pentru upload de muzica, video, poze)


• Autotags - (cauta automat perintre tagurile tale mai vechi)


• Update automat la Pluginuri


• Add category instant.


• WYSIWYG mai bun :P


• Posturi la ora programata ( eu scriu de obicei noaptea cand nu e nimeni online )


• RSS-uri custom pe dashboard.

Si bineintales si multe minusuri:

• Unele pluginuri modificate de mine acum cer update /:)


• Write Post - ( design foarte prost, Categories e pus aiurea unde e pus )


• Update greoi.


• Auto update-ul la pluginuri da eroare. (da macar l-au bagat)


• Downgrade la tema cika "veche" arata ca dracu.

Cam asta ar fi, acuma daca alegeti sa faceti update sau nu, tine de voi. Mie imi convine pana acum.

Si In Engleza

DarkX-Studios.com devine bilingv, am terminat de montat un plugin simpatic care imi permite sa scriu in mai multe limbi (Genial nu?). Sper sa pot extinde acest plugin si pe partea de site care functioneaza separat de wordpress.

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