Whird of the day: “Moonthology”
Feb 12, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
A few days ago, I was quite surprised, in a nice way, when I received a message from Hanna, saying:
I thought it would be fun to try Whird…
As far as I know, Hanna is the only person, other than myself, to download and set-up a working instance of Whird. I think this is amazing.
Hanna is using Whird for her Moonthology blog and she had this to say about it:
So to why I like this then. I have a blog, I write mostly about crocheting these days, I don’t need bells and whistles for that. Whird allows me to write and post entries and tag them, create pages and upload files. Creating a theme for it pretty much piece of cake. I can preview posts and save them as drafts. All I need.
It pleases me to think that someone else is finding Whird useful. :)
In semi-related news, I have been playing around with my own Whird installation, more specifically, with its custom Bazaar integration. My project logs can now be subscribed to as Atom feeds. I am not too sure how useful a feature this is, but I had fun coding it. I also made the code slightly more modular, mainly to ease with the creation of new projects. Oh, and I also made revision patches downloadable, as well as viewable. I am sure there are still improvements to be made, but I am happy with how it is progressing.
As for Whird’s code, thanks to Hanna, it should now work when PHP’s magic quotes are on. I was not aware that any hosting providers are still using this magical, not, feature, but I am now. It makes me sad to have to support depreciated features, more so when the feature has the word “magic” in its name.
Also, I added some working code to Whird’s example new post hook, which basically details how to have Whird post to identi.ca with the post’s title and a short URL created using the goo.gl API service.
Finally, in completely unrelated news, I can categorically state that slicing the top of your thumb off, whilst chopping hot chillies, really stings! :/
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Feb 12, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
I googled the “Powered by Whird” text and actually found another site using it. I think he doesn’t mind me linking to it. Also a friend of mine has been checking Whird.
So thanks for putting it online to download.
ps. damn I always notice about zillion mistakes I make while writing after pressing the publish button… :/
Feb 12, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
@Hanna, I did not know about Nathan’s site, thank you for sharing. Also, I just noticed he has released his theme too, awesome! :)
Jul 7, 2011 (about 10 months ago)
I’m revisiting your post here due to something that happened to me.
With my Whird site, I originally had a flag counter from flagcounter.com on it. I think it’s fun data to see but, I wasn’t real comfortable with having a third party collect the data, (both for my sake and whomever happens to stumble onto my site). So I looked for something I could run locally and came across Piwik which is a open source web analysis program. Sweet, now I can add the flag count (plus other facts), give people the option of ‘opting out’, yada yada yada.
Piwik is a complete suite, much more than I really need actually, and you can see what links brought people to your site among a crapload of other stats. One particular person did a Google search for “Powered by Whird” and arrived at my site. Which in turn, I ran the same search and of course, arrived back at the Whird mothership.
Small world, huh?
:D
Jul 7, 2011 (about 10 months ago)
@jpope, you are one of only a handful of people brave enough to give Whird a try, so yes, our world is quite small. :D
Nice job on your Whird installation, it is looking great! :)
Jul 8, 2011 (about 10 months ago)
Thanks.
It’s been a hell of alot of fun playing with it so far. ;)