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A preview option for comments.

Either a method to export posts, or a method to import from another WordPress blog. And I mean this specifically for wordpress.com; currently there is no way to export posts from wordpress.com blogs, and no way to import them from another WP installation except through the RSS feed. And they won’t let you install plugins on wordpress.com, either, so you’re basically screwed. Especially if you’ve spent a lot of time categorizing your posts.

blog about this for a while now: NewsForge put together a list of must-have WordPress plugins a little while ago. All are pretty cool. My favorites, in no particular order: the “sticky” post plugin, the admin drop-down menu plugin, the Semiologic package.

I wish they’d generate standards-compliant code. As it is, they’ve got improperly nested tags all over the place (especially around blockquotes), and all the effort I spent on designing valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional/Strict templates is useless.

I’d love it if, when you select a category for your post, its parent category would get automatically selected as well. I can’t really see a reason when you’d select a subcategory that you wouldn’t want to select its parent, as well. Can you?

WordPress has released a 2.0.1 version of their blog publishing software; they’ve evidently fixed 114 bugs in this version.

All my blogs/websites have been upgraded, as of about 30 minutes ago.

sections of my personal website in the last few months, I’ve been adding links to any related writings on my blog to each section. For the books and music sections, this was easy, since I already had a category for each on my blog; all I had to do was link to the category pages for each. But today, I ran headlong into a problem (and almost gave myself a concussion). I don’t have a category for anime or manga, and I didn’t want to add one, because they both fall under other, existing categories. No problem, I thought; I’ll just search for any posts containing the words anime or manga or manhwa. And that’s when my head made impact with the wall. You see, the default WordPress search does not support boolean search terms.

Now, I only found this out after searching for over an hour*. I scoured the wordpress documentation, and there was no mention of it. Then, finally, I came across a developer’s blog stating that WordPress does not, in fact allow boolean searches. Kind of lame. But, and this is the kicker, he had written a plugin to solve the problem! I’ve downloaded the plugin and installed it on all my blog and website sections. Thank you, Beau Collins!

* Part of this has to be blamed on me; I was searching for the wrong thing. I was doing a Google search for “search wordpress wildcard”, when I should have been looking for “search wordpress boolean”. Knowing what you’re looking for is half the battle.

Yesterday, WordPress released the 2.0 version of their blogging software. Most of the improvements are under the hood:

In the past if you were linking to a number of posts or pinging a lot of update services, your posting time could appear to slow to a crawl even though everything was instantly done on the backend. We’ve modified how this works now so posting should be near-instantaneous, like everything else in WordPress.

but the new version also boasts an extensively retooled and streamlined interface:

[N]ow when you save a post it shows a live preview of how the post would look on your site, with the stylesheet and theme and everything. No more publishing a post just to see if it works.

Pretty cool indeed. A detailed explanation of the new features can be found here.

This blog post, as a matter of fact, is being written on the new version of the software. By the way, happy New Year!

In the last 12 hours. I’ve gotten 26 spam comments on this blog. I can only assume it’ll get worse from here, dammit. It’s a good thing I’ve got WordPress set up so that all new commenters need to be moderated before a comment of theirs shows up on my blog. Yeesh.

You can set up an RSS feed for comments. For comments. How cool is that?