Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

One of the features that I miss from my time with MovableType is the “Today” button next to the date editor on the publishing screen. I want a way to be able to change the date that it is suggesting to right now.

One of the most annoying things about the Wordpress Plugin Directory is being able to find what you are looking for by searching. The search has never turned up anything useful. Or it might, but it is buried in the noise.

I’ve been looking for a while for a plugin that will do a better job [...]

The release notes for Wordpress 2.6.3 indicate just two files changed, but the svn update shows a different story:

[grant]$ cd wordpress-install/ [grant]$ svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.3 U wp-includes/class-snoopy.php U wp-includes/version.php U wp-admin/includes/media.php Updated to revision 9318. [grant]$

This is not good as the release notes indicate an incorrect procedure for update–leading to the possibility [...]

Regarding the Wordpress login cookies, I agree with Mike. If I don’t log in for a while, then feel free to sign me out. Just don’t make me log in what seems like every other day.

To fix it in version 2.6.1, search wp-includes\pluggable.php for

$expiration = $expire = time() + 1209600;

and adjust the number of seconds [...]

Through a few hours of work this weekend, I transferred the site to WordPress from MovableType. It’s not perfect (not that it was before I started the transformation), but hopefully it will be better.

Good Points:

Integration with TextMate blogging bundle (since I could not make the Initial install (and upgrades) are supported in a one click [...]