Over the last year or so, if I wanted LivePress to do something different, I’d hack it up with some ginsu knives, paying no mind to elegance or maintainability and just moved on with business. I mean, I never planned on having anybody else use my copy, right? So why bother?
But now that I’m giving it a little more forethought, I am just amazed the thing worked as well as it did for me for so long. I’m talking typos, chunks of code all over the place that do nothing but stink up files, bad formatting, readability factor of 0. And now as I fix one bug, another one surfaces.
It reminds me of the snowball effect a lot of the old, poorly maintained IRIX servers at work caused because one fixing one problem will undoubtedly result in you opening pandora’s box . “Oh apache won’t start? No problem! …Oh no.. on one of those ? Let me clear my schedule for the rest of the day”. Working on it makes me sweat. Hopefully it’s the de-toxing kind of sweat because I need it.
I think I may have mentioned this before (don’t wanna reread old posts atm) but I’m going to start supporting Livepress (or a fork of it anyways). There hasn’t been an updated release made by the original owner of it since wordpress 2.0, sometime in 2006.
So at any rate, the one improvement I’ve made that excites me the most is that any email or cell phone post made to wp will automatically get crossposted to lj. I had spent days trying to get lp to do this back in January in conjunction with another plugin but that failed miserably and I soon gave up on it.
Well the copy I’ve been working on now does this flawlessly. I’ve learned far more about how the wordpress code than I wanted but I’m stoked I finally got this shit working how I’d wanted it back in January for our disney vacation. It would have been nice to snap a cell phone picture and send it directly to livejournal during that trip. Better late than never I guess.
I’ve made a few other changes as well:
http://code.google.com/p/livepress/
I tried to upgrade to wp 2.6 which was just released today at like 12:01am, but I use k2 and unfortunately these two have not started out on the best of terms.
wordpress 2.6
ssl and cookies in wp 2.6
k2 problems
Fortunately, I backed up my entire site and database (which I rarely do before an upgrade) so I was able to roll it all back. There’s a fix coming for k2 tonight but I don’t care much for leaving my site broken until it’s available. I’ll just wait and try upgrading it again later.
So I finally spent the 4 hours necessary to properly update wordpress and all of its plugins AND rehack code as I always have to do to get things the way I want them. Oh I forgot, comments still aren’t working.. sigh..
But anyway, you can now “automatically update plugins” and “automatically update wordpress” itself. It doesn’t work on my blog of course. Someday I’ll look into it more. but now everything is updated.
And I really like the new admin interface. Much nicer, imo. …and now to test Live+Press…
Tired
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