A long time coming, no more databases, VPS or wordpress installs. This move to Hugo has been a fun train of Terraforming an AWS S3 static site behind Cloudfront for TLS. Setting up Hugo to publish to S3 Doing this all in GitHub Actions. So far it’s just the content. Media and comments still need to be figured out. I still haven’t figured out the home page either. You can check it all out on GitHub.

I’ve uploaded the initial public release, v1.2, of my simple Tweet plugin to the WordPress Plugin Repository. You can install the plugin by: downloading it from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet/ ; or On a recent version of wordpress, v2.7 or above, follow these steps: Login to your wordpress dashboard Select the Plugins/Add New menu item as shown Search for Author lantrix as shown Click on the Install link for the Tweet plugin If you need any assistance, you can leave a comment over on the dedicated page for the Tweet WordPress plugin for Twitter.

Downloading MySQL and installing on Leopard is a breeze with the native package. I migrated my database (dump/restore) and recreated my wordpress user, but still kept getting this error: Error establishing a database connection The user could log into the database from the console as shown: ` lantrix@lexx:~ $ mysql -u wordpress -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 19 Server version: 5.

Now that I am using wordpress 2.7, I thought it would be good to test the iPhone app for wordpress. This is written on the app itself. I would say that although useful it seems to be more favorable to blog from a computer. The iPhone is suited to short spurts of typing, more on the realms of SMS or twitter. The capability of quickly adding photos and the tag/category functionality seems full featured, as shown by a photo of my dinner I made from Cook with Jamie.

I’m lagging so far behind on wordpress that I’m probably breaking all the security rules. So in an effort to be more proactive in online open-source communities I’m giving WordPress V2.7 Release Candidate 1 a whirl. Looking forward to the new Admin UI. Does anyone else ride the bleeding edge when it comes to tech blogging? Edit: The upgrade worked. 2.7 RC1 even worked with all my 2.3 plugins straight up!

A quick one today, but worthy of note is the upcoming now out WordPress iPhone Application. This means an update of techdebug.com is on the cards… You can read about it on the dedicated iPhone page. via TUAW

Developed initally on WordPress 2.3, it has successfully been tested on WordPress 2.7.1. Most of the other plugins out there either did this only in their “badge” or “widget” or where too full featured. This is a simple and quick plugin to get links in place to twitter people for the lazy blogger. Visit my plugin page, give it a try and let me know what you think.

Forgive my triple Post Hiccup. When Textmate posted my blog posts, I got errors. Thinking the post had not completed, I retried until I figured out the problem. If you use WordPress V2.3 and post with Textmate, then don’t try to add a new category when posting an article. You get this problem: <br /> Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 1010<br /> Looks like I am not the only one.

I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 recently, but it stuffed up my feed. By default it set the feed content to be cut off. This is now fixed, so sorry for any inconvenience. On the whole, wordpress 2.3 seems to work rather well.