finding the limits
ecto update: Kudos to the ecto crew for getting me a solution to my configuration problem within 4 hours of simply mentioning it here.
WordPress’ built-in rich text editor… not so good in Safari. Doesn’t run. (To be fair, I haven’t used a JavaScript based rich text editor that works well in Safari.) But hey… all the more reason to install a Textile plugin or the like, once they’re updated for WordPress 2.
So far so good on the categories. I’d like to be able to lock down posts to certain user groups (a la LiveJournal), but I haven’t seen a function for that. They’ve revamped the user accounts recently, so I haven’t got a good look at how they function yet.
This web host doesn’t seem to like .htaccess files, so unless I move to a different server, the permalinks will end up being query string style (the fun, hard to reverse engineer ?p=4629 approach). That’s disappointing and a bit of a usability, but there’s not much I can do on it at the moment.
I took a little time to play with desktop clients like MarsEdit or ecto. I’m running into difficulties with them both. Right now, MarsEdit won’t upload images. (I’ve got an interface issue there… there’s no clues as to where the path you enter is referenced from, so you have to guess.) ecto won’t recognize the site at all. So looks like it’s the traditional method for me.
I still have to check out the thumbnail functions for images uploaded through the regular WP interface, see how the WP generated thumbs come out as far as size.
But all things in their time.
January 29th, 2006 at 6:31 am
Use “http://brian.hochhalters.com/plaintxt/xmlrpc.php” as the access point and “MovableType” as the API, when you set up ecto.
January 29th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Adriaan.
Here I’d decided not to chase my ecto configuration problem because I didn’t want to be bothered with it, and you bring me the fix without my even asking.
Good on ya!