I installed Bittorrent on my spenix.com account. I may be volunteering a little technical help in distributing this year’s Burning Man Screen Saver for The Burning Man Screen Saver Project.
I’m a bit excited since I submitted about 15 photos of my own to this year’s project. The Vault of Heaven screen saver is due out in April or so.
On a side note, if you have any large files you need distributed, I’m now your go-to guy!
4-10-05 update. The Screen Saver doesn’t need Bittorrent. Oh well.
I just installed the Page Navigation Plugin, page-navi.php from Lester Chan.
It lets me put a navigation bar on my site like this:
Pages (6) : Previous Page 1 [2] 3 4 Next Page ... Last »
It installed in about 5 minutes (and then of course I had to fiddle with it for 30 minutes…. but it installed very easily. And that’s very nice. :-)
I made a slight improvement in 1.2 that you might want to integrate into the source.
This starts at line 36. New code in red.
$numposts = $wpdb->num_rows;
$max_page = ceil($numposts / $posts_per_page) ;
// Return added by LCS 1-15-05. This causes nothing to be displayed if there is only 1 page
if ($max_page == 1) {
return;
}
echo $before.'Pages ('.$max_page.') : <b>';
if ($whichpage >= 4)
Without this change, Page Navi is a little obtrusive when I put it in a prominent spot in Index.php and I’m displaying only 1 post… like when I’m viewing archives.
3-10-05 update. This plugin doesn’t work with WP 1.5 so I’ve switched to another plugin.
From here. Very useful. :-)
This is the cutest plugin. :-)
update 8-20-05 I’m not using this plugin with WP 1.5.
I tried using WYSIWYGII and it has potential…. but it makes sucky looking HTML and doesn’t fix the escape-code issues with WordPress (where lots of code like slashes and quotes get left behind) So I’m not using it.
It looks useful. From w-a-s-a-b-i.com
Win XP SP 2 allows you to set a PPPoE connection as a default connection instead of having to dial it. That means that it will automatically dial the PPPoE connection when its needed. That’s nice.
I’m proud to present my first WordPress plugin, Words in Post. All it does is count up the number of the words in a post and spit them out. By sticking this code in the index.php template of WordPress, I can create a title line that looks like this:
Geekery � 49 words � lee @ 2:50 am
This is better than using the following simple grab that I had heard about here.
<?php echo(str_word_count(get_the_content())); ?> words
The preceding doesn’t grab anything past the <!--more--> and counts tags incorrectly.
Thanks to Nick Momrik for the inspiration.
1-15-05 update: Version 1.1. Thanks to Alderete’s suggestion, the function returns a number instead of echoing. See the php for instructions.
Download Words in Post plugin version 1.1 here. Rename it from .phps to .php and run with it.
I just installed “Sortable Nicer Archives for WordPress” from weblogtoolscollection.com. It is tres snazzy. Check it out here.