Wordpress on Lorenzo Bolla

Wordpress to markdown

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Recently, I moved away from Wordpress. I did it primarily because Wordpress is so much more than just a blogging platform and what I needed was just a simple way of publishing posts with embedded code, links and images. Moreover, writing blogs using Wordpress's web editor is less than ideal…

The biggest problem to solve when moving away from Wordpress is how to not lose all your posts. Luckily, Wordpress allows you to export all your stuff in XML, but you also need a way to import them in whatever other blogging platform you are going to use.

Migrating away from wordpress.com

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Today I decided to migrate my blog from wordpress.com to my own domain.

I did it for many reasons:

To be able to add plugins
To be able to add javascript to individual pages
To run a customized theme
And all the other reasons listed here

I did not want to loose the popularity and the ranking of my original address, accumulated over the years.

Here are the steps I had to follow (if the following steps make no sense to you, this guide might help you):

Simple Wordpress API lisp client

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I like old things, therefore I started to learn Lisp.

There isn't a better way to learn than by doing, so I tried to implement a client for the wordpress api. the result, even if not complete yet, it's so elegant that I'd like to share it.

(require 's-xml-rpc)

(defpackage :wp
 (:use :cl :cl-user :s-xml-rpc))

(in-package :wp)

(defparameter +interfaces+
 '((get-blogs "wp.getUsersBlogs" username password)
 (get-tags "wp.getTags" blog-id username password)
 (get-comment-count "wp.getCommentCount" blog-id username password post-id)
 (get-post-status-list "wp.getPostStatusList" blog-id username password)
 (get-page-status-list "wp.getPageStatusList" blog-id username password)
 (get-page-templates "wp.getPageTemplates" blog-id username password)
 (get-options "wp.getOptions" blog-id username password)
 (delete-comment "wp.deleteComment" blog-id username password comment-id)
 (get-comment-status-list "wp.getCommentStatusList" blog-id username password)
 (get-page "wp.getPage" blog-id page-id username password)
 (get-pages "wp.getPages" blog-id username password)
 (get-page-list "wp.getPageList" blog-id username password)
 (delete-page "wp.deletePage" blog-id username password page-id)
 (get-authors "wp.getAuthors" blog-id username password)
 (get-categories "wp.getCategories" blog-id username password)
 (delete-category "wp.deleteCategory" blog-id username password category-id)
 (suggest-categories "wp.suggestCategories" blog-id username password category max-results)
 (get-comment "wp.getComment" blog-id username password comment-id))
 "Interface definition to WP services")

(defun defunwp (params)
 (destructuring-bind (name service &rest rest) params
 (setf (fdefinition name) (compile nil `(lambda (host ,@rest &optional (url "/xmlrpc.php"))
 (block ,name
 (xml-rpc-call
 (encode-xml-rpc-call ,service ,@rest)
 :host host
 :url url)))))
 name))

(mapcar #'(lambda (interface) (export (defunwp interface))) +interfaces+)

It uses the s-xml-rpc package and I've tested it with SBCL.

Wordpress Python library

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Today, I found this. It's a wonderfully simple Python library to manage your Wordpress blog via XML-RPC.

Enjoy!

Charm, Markdown and Wordpress

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Following my previous post, a nice enhancement is using Markdown to filter your post before submitting it to Wordpress.

You can either filter it in your preferred editor (vim uses the ! command) or invoke the formatter (for example, markdown) from charm: command x.

Nice!

wordpress.com and text based web browsers

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Today, I was appreciating how well wordpress.com renders on text based web browsers (using elinks). Unfortunately, even if reading posts looks great, posting does not. Actually, I've been able to delete one of my posts, while searching to edit it. Completely wiped out.

Luckily, google cache saved my time and promptly found an older copy. Beware!