February 3, 2010 by jerome
This might sound trivial to a lot of us – but i find it so useful so often… Maybe you have other practice for such use – just let me know!
Zip let’s you archive a whole directory wiht many subdirectories and files inside in one convenient file. It’s usually done trough the OS UI by simply right clicking on a directory and selecting compress or archive this from the contextual menu.
When you want to download an archive of a website or any files online it is sometimes a lot more effective and convenient to just use the same zip archive. Unfortunately FTP programms wont let you do any such thing – so you have to bypass – if you are the lucky user of a server with an SSH access nothing is simpler:
connect to the server using the terminal:
ssh username@myserver.com
insert the password
navigate to the top of the directory you want to archive
type:
zip -r archiveFileName directoryName
* this will archive the content of directoryName into a zip file called archiveFileName; -r stands for recursive
** according to the number and size of the files in your archive, the compressing can take very long – i like to have it running on a second screen exactly like an activity monitoring device of the server life – sort of an electronic presence of the machine.
*** you can then move the zip file around, transfert it to another ftp or use it locally – unzip command will let you un pack the archive and access the files.
**** if you are using fuse – don’t think the conextual menu is the best solution: you would be using zip on your computer and would download each files to be compressed on your local machine, and doing the compression on the distant disk. Latency time for read and write access will be HUGE. Chances are your are going to kill a couple of processes on your own machine, at best this will take ages (like in days). Just use the ssh via the terminal and all the compression task will happen on the distant server, leaving your computer free of sluggish clogging.
Tags: cli, electronic presence, terminal, webserver | Comments (0)
December 19, 2009 by jerome
* just came (again) across an issue spotted some times ago we didn’t solve at that time – if you don’t know what we are talking about you might like to read this post: On Wordpress image resizing that explains visually the issue:
When using the auto generated images from wordpress, they are completely desatured compared to the original uploaded images.
The only way we found was to actually use images without any profile. You will have to edit your images in your favourites image editing software without any profile.
Photoshop users: Edit > Assign Profile > Don’t Color Manage This Document > Ok
Profiles are used to optimise image according to the medium they are displayed with.
Wordpress use imagecopyresampled from the PHP GD Library to generate the thumbnails (thumb, medium, large). GD is a sort of library that extends PHP language and allow it to manipulate image data in a simple way; unfortunately GD does not support profiles and any profile submited within an image will not only be ignored but also discarded.
** i would happilly receive any recommendation for image editing alternative on OSX, eventually open source (dont tell me Gimp) and procedure to discard profiles…
*** the Images look faded topic on WP forum being closed, we thought it might be helpful to someone else…
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December 5, 2009 by jerome
* the idea of this logging application is to gather in one single place all activities around a website and represent them so that it highlights positive and negative relationships: publishing of post/page, use of twitter, facebook, mailinglist, etc. in order to be able to monitor and analyse an electronic presence, the traffic influence online activities are having – what are the other aspects that could be monitored? Beside the AdminLog plugin being developped, a few notes and interesting thing found during researches:
Realtime Monitoring seems to be essential – that’s one of the downside of using Google Analytics. At the same time, the realtime aspects might create a curtain in front of the bigger picture of a larger time scale for monitoring activities.
Google Analytics has an API
most certainly useful to gather more data beside the realtime echniques we are already using.
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataLibraries.html
Google Analytics released Intelligence; their new automatic alert system.
the system automatically draw attention to unexpected events, based on re-occurences of values. If the bounce rate suddenly is sky rocketting, the system will notice the alteration in the pattern and trigger an alert. Their custom alerting system lets admins set custom alerts parameters; but i haven’t been succesful so far with it…
Conversion rate
conversion rate is the ratio of visitors who convert casual content views or website visits into desired actions based on subtle or direct requests (Wikipedia: Conversion Rate)
Wat are the relevant actions? So far, for DMO i have been considering the following actions as being relevant:
Add to cart, Checkout, Mailinglist subscription, Twitter follow
The new facebook privacy system seems to introduce stats f consultation – ?
Flickr has a nice but limited statistics tool; interesting to monitor and glue with the Google data on referrer to monitor the conversion from Flickr. API?
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.activity.userPhotos.html
Tags: electronic presence, tool, usability, user | Comments (0)
November 28, 2009 by jerome
Pods is worth checking out; it helps turn wordpress into a full fledged CMS.
Pods
Pods is a CMS framework for WordPress. It’s a plugin that sits on top of WordPress, allowing you to add and display your own content types.
These content types, or “pods”, are totally separate from Posts, Pages, or Custom Fields. The Pods plugin uses its own database structure for maximum efficiency, and for relationships among items.
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November 21, 2009 by jerome
we recently had those weird errors – using the flash uploader or the html uploader didn’t improve the situation: the dreaded HTTP error kept on buging us until we realised our error: the wordpress install was protected by a password (apache’s .htaccess) and the solution was lying there as well: the following has to sit in .htaccess in the wp-admin folder fr the time the blog is protected by a password:
AuthType Basic
AuthName share
Satisfy Any
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>
* we didn’t monitor what would happen to this htaccess after an automated upgrade
Tags: htaccess, http error, password, wordpress | Comments (0)
November 13, 2009 by jerome
The Go Programming Language.
* this is big; if you are into programming languages or at least keen on discovering new languages. This is the latest addition by Google rooted into Plan9 via Inferno. I am really keen on discovering more about it – even if just by curiosity and no particular projects. I think Plan 9 conception of computers as communication hub is brilliant and perfectly fit our no-yet-so current conception of the internet (read: electronci presence) – and thus any grand children of this very conception helps things happen/evolve a bit faster…
** give to Mike what “belongs” to him: Mike found out about the Plan 9 familly roots.
Tags: electronic presence, language | Comments (0)
October 22, 2009 by jerome
<script type='text/javascript'
src='http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js'>
</script>
* Firebug Lite lets you access some of the debugging features of Firebug (the Firefox extension) in other browser (Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer)
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October 19, 2009 by jerome
global $wp_query;
query_posts(
array_merge(
array('cat' => -420),
$wp_query->query
)
);
* while working on a few new Sangbleu pages, i came across this neat way of handling custom query; i found it on the Wordpress Codex: query_posts.
What it is essentially doing here is an exclude of all the post of a specific category without affecting the main loop/query generated by the core system of redirects; in other words: it respects the original paging. I found it quite clean and neat – and thought i would share…
** Even after a few months working intensively with Wordpress almost like a framework, i’m still able to improve my own tricks and discover new stuff; version 2.9 is around the corner and i’m getting excited a bit with the fusion of the core WP and the MU
*** We are searching for a way to share internally/externally small bits of code, functions, etc (not only WP related) – considering any software repository (wiki, wp, …), what would you recommend?
Tags: blog, category, custom query, exclusion, index, template, wordpress | Comments (2)
August 2, 2009 by jerome
Spend the past few days working on a frozen version of Seascape, coping with my temporary thumb-less left hand (it grows back: it’s amazing!). Below you can find a simple fix to the missing/bugish get_previous_post in WordPress; this one is used in a http call (read: ajax) that loads the content in the background. More details for the most curious and ambitious in the jQuery files of the projects (you know where). Short and simple: it receives 3 parameters: $post_id, $post_cat, $howmany and returns the content to update the DOM.
The final version should be online in the next couple of days.
* long silence on Capacity due partly to a lot of nice projects – which means a lot of work – check out what’s new: http://electronest.com/portfolio/ and also, yes, DesignMarketo takes a lot of our time…
** inspiration for this bit of code comes mostly from the nice plugin Other Post From Cat.
$query = "
SELECT ID,
post_title,
post_content,
post_date
FROM {$tp}posts, {$tp}terms, {$tp}term_taxonomy, {$tp}term_relationships
WHERE {$tp}posts.ID = {$tp}term_relationships.object_id
AND {$tp}term_relationships.object_id = {$tp}posts.ID
AND {$tp}term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = {$tp}term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id
AND {$tp}terms.term_id = {$tp}term_taxonomy.term_id
AND {$tp}terms.term_id = {$post_cat}
AND {$tp}term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'category'
AND post_status = 'publish'
AND post_type = 'post'
AND {$tp}posts.ID < {$post_id}
ORDER BY ID DESC, post_date DESC
LIMIT 0,{$howmany}
";
Tags: get_previous_post, mysql, wordress | Comments (0)
March 16, 2009 by jerome
… without clicking 8216 times on the spam link in worpdress; you do that like this:
DELETE from wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘0′;
* as Pierre just remarked, it has a name: WordPress macro via SQL
** if you didn’t install it already, Akismet will help drastically reduce any spam on your blog.
Tags: admin, comment, mysql, spam, wordpress | Comments (0)