It’d time to introduce the “Trail” to the OS Quest blog. It seems like the type of thing that should be done on a weekend, or maybe just once a month, or maybe whenever I can fill a post. (I’ve really thought this through) I’ll recap the things I’ve been working on and the things I’m thinking of working on in my little world of personal computers. I’ll also throw in tidbits I’ve come across but don’t warrant their own post (or I don’t have time to do them justice). [...] Read the rest »
Site Upgraded to WordPress 2.2
I finally got around to upgrading this site to WordPress 2.2. It took me so long to get to it (it was released May 16th) that the Fantastico scripts at Bluehost were updated and I used them to do the upgrade. The last time I upgraded manually but only beat Fantastico by two days. After my experience with Yahoo, where then didn’t update their install scripts the entire time I was there, I’m impressed with Fantastico’s speedin updating their scripts. There was really only one problem (at least that I’ve [...] Read the rest »
Why an External Editor For WordPress
As I’ve been looking at the various WordPress editor options I’ve also considered editing posts outside of WordPress. When I used Blogger, my longer posts (which isn’t very many) where done in Google Docs and then pasted into Blogger. That’s certainly an option here and going into this I had planned to keep doing that. I moved my old blogger posts using that method. I like the post management system within WordPress Draft posts can be saved and updated until their ready for posting. Everything is right there on the [...] Read the rest »
Why Not The Internal WordPress Editor
I’ve done a couple postings about alternatives to the built-in editor in WordPress. I figured I should summarize why I won’t be using it. Can’t paste external documents into a post. Button to quickly add the more tag The inability to cut/paste drove me away from it early, and there hasn’t been a reason to come back. Read the rest »
Why (or Why Not) the WYSI-WordPress Plugin
WYSI-Wordpress is a WordPress plugin that replaces the built-in rich text editor. It’s based on TinyMCE. After picking WordPress to be the primary content management system for my site (yea, it’s not a real CMS but it was simple and has what I want for now) I wanted to move some entries I had in blogger. There were only a few and when the import failed (no surprise as I’m using the blogger beta) I decide to go the same route used to get them into blogger, cut and paste. [...] Read the rest »
