A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

The latest round of security vulnerabilities has me a bit spooked, especially since I really hate the admin aspect of this software (and am in no bloody position to be paying for upgrades.)

So I’m trying to decide whether to convert this site to a blosxom based one (pyblosxom perhaps) or whether to finally, after 10 years of whining like a banned WoW gamer, rolling my own.

I don’t really post “from anywhere” in a way that requires editing tools to be tied up with the rendering engine, much less the presenter.

The trick would be to modify a minimum number of files in a flat layout every time there’s a new post, to minimize the posting bandwidth. Not that I’m exactly melting the copper with my throughput requirements, but I’d rather not be gross about usage (i.e. re-upload the whole site on every post.)

Plus, it would give me another excuse to wedge some wiki stuff in here again.

It links to the previous post “This is a post” just by virtue of the fact that I put that title in quotes in the edit box in WordPress.

This is a piece of functionality I miss from Radio Userland.

This post will be linked to by the next post by merely putting the name of this post in quotes.

It’s a test of my new wiki-ish wordpress plugin.

Not the emptiest, mind you. That’s different.

RadioUserland had a feature I really loved. Well… it had several (and it’s craptasticular language wasn’t one of them.)

If you typed “a phrase in quotes” it would look through all of your blog post titles for that phrase. If it found it, it would automagically turn the quoted phrase into a link.

I was shopping around for a WordPressWiki plugin and came up with something called “Blicki” which doesn’t work and hasn’t worked in some number of versions. But I figured, how damn hard can php be?

It didn’t really have much that would help and a lot of the library functions it relied on in the WordPress codebase either aren’t there or don’t behave quite the same.

After about an hour and a half I have the thing done. With the comment header it’s 66 lines from and not so bad if I do say so myself; especially considering that it’s a first php effort.

I’m going to use it as a basis for expanding in to a full blown wiki plugin, so I’m not planning on dumping it out into the world at large in it’s v0.1 state.

But if anyone’s interested in it in the meantime, lemme know. I don’t see any reason not to shoot the file over.