wordPress.root

How to Install

1. Download wordPress.root into the Guest Databases/apps/Tools sub-folder of the OPML Editor application folder.

2. You may have to quit and restart the OPML Editor for it to show up in the Tools menu.

3. Choose Connect to Site from the WordPress sub-menu of the Tools menu. A dialog appears. Enter the URL of your weblog and click on OK. If the connection can be made, a window opens with information about how to connect to your weblog. There are places to enter your username and password. Enter them carefully and close the window.

4. Choose Open Workspace from the WordPress sub-menu of the Tools menu. The workspace window opens.

5. Click on the New Entry button in the window. Enter a title for your post. Enter the text of the post as sub-heads of the title. When you're ready to post, click the Save button. When you make a change, click the Save button. You can do this as many times as you like.

Notes

1. Here's a screen shot of the workspace window. And a corresponding Wordpress blog post. Each top-level headline in the workspace outline represents a post. You can move them around. When you delete the headline, it doesn't delete the corresponding blog post.

2. This code might work with other blogging tools besides Wordpress. It's built on a programming interface that's supposed to work with all tools the same way. Caveat Emptor. Your Mileage May Vary. Objects appear closer than yada yada yada. It may take a little tweaking to get it to work with other tools.

3. Got a question? Post a comment.

4. Version 0.3 was released on December 11, version 0.4 on January 22.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 11/23/05; 2:45:21 PM - --

Changes in the intructions for setting up an OPML Community Server

As often happens, shortly after releasing a new app, we figure out how to make it easier. This time it's definitely worth the effort to make the change and do another round of testing. The downside of course is that there may be problems for people using the test server, if so I apologize in advance. I only have one dedicated machine I can test this stuff on.

Overview

1. All the changes are in opmlStartupCommands.txt.

2. Set the domain in user.opmlServer.hostname to point at the machine the OPML Editor app is running on, or if it's a multiple IP address machine, the address that's specified in user.opmlServer.ipAddressPort80. Set user.opmlServer.blogsname to point to the same place. In other words, all serving is done by the OPML Editor.

3. Set user.opmlserver.folder to the empty string, "". When the OPML Editor sees this at startup, it creates a folder and automatically points the server at it.

4. Once this has proven to work, I'll rewrite the Howto to make the second-server configuration optional and make this configuration the default.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 11/23/05; 2:34:08 PM - --