Sometimes when surfing the vastness that is the internet, you stumble on something that makes you say “hey that’s neat” or “I sure could use that”. That recently happend to me, again. I discovered a tool called “Performancing for Firefox”, and in turn, discovered I needed to upgrade WordPress on my various blogs.
“Performancing for Firefox” is a very cool plug-in for Firefox, that allows you to edit multiple blogs, in one window. That is to say, for example, that I open a new tab in Firefox, and fire up the plugin. On the left is an editor window, very much like what I see when logged into one of my blogs and writing a post. The right side has a listing of my blogs, catagories, history, notes, etc. I simply type my post in the editor and publish it. All very neat and clean, except that it doesn’t work with the version of WordPress I had installed.
To configure “Performancing for Firebox”, I had to point to a file called “xmlrpc.php” in the root of my WordPress installation. Hmmm, there wasn’t one there. Off to the WordPress web site and I find I’m a few version behind. Well, might as well upgrade.
Following the instructions on the WordPress website, I backed up my databases, blog files, etc. and then installed the new version of WordPress on each blog site. A bit of re-configuring, one wrong click and a database restore, and I’m back in business. Although the look of this blog hasn’t changed, it will have to. The new version of WordPress uses “themes”, and my old index page fails to get comments working, which I’d really like to do now. I’ll be working that in the future.
Back to “Performancing for Firefox” and I can now point to the file, it finds my blog and populates the information. Now I can review past postings, make new postings, and do a few other things. Very nice.
I’ll try to post links a bit later.
Asa Jay
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