Double Posting with Two Windows

I came up on this the other day for the first time when I was doing a really long post! Most of what I do is on the Micro level, so I rarely get a chance to post anything of any real length. When I did, I hit a huge snag that just about did me in, as I was trying to make a deadline with one of my blogs.

Here it is: When editing a “Draft” you have the ability in WordPress to Preview these changes, as you are logged in to the admin area, in the preview you will notice the word “edit” next to the date and your name. When you press this edit to clean up your copy you will open a new tab in firefox or a new browser window in Explorer. Now it only does this one time, however you now have two tabs or two browser windows open for you to edit in. Once you save in one, you will not be able to save in another. The trouble is, when you hit the preview button and after reading your post you decide to edit and hit the edit link, you should be forced to back-up, like hitting the back button on the tool bar of you internet browser, not the ability to open a new tab or new browser window. Man, ………. I seen some bugs, but this is a killer.

After I had work through my copy and realized my problem, I was like four hours doing this post, and I was forced to stay with it, because I was looking at a deadline.

Once you publish your post and you decide to edit that post, you still get this behavior with WordPress. I’m sure there is a work around, I just don’t know it yet. I just wanted to get this info to you as soon as I realized the problem. So, do yourself a huge favor and when you hit the “Preview Changes” button; after you are through editing, just turn off the tab or window!  If you know of a work around, leave a comment and help us out, please. Thanks. See you next week!

Content Management Systems

When I am asked to build a website for someone, I need to make the end-user aware that once I’m finished, I will be turning it over to their webmaster of choice. More often than not I get an answer like ……… well ………. there will be three or four that will be working with the site on weekends, we …

The WordPress e-Commerce Plugin

While coming up with extreme content every week is a brain squeeze, I sometimes take the easy way out and start looking for content to scrape ………. err use via the tech-sites for WordPress on the Internet. I thought I would check into the WordPress Codex which is a bloggers worst friend ………. Man, are we talking hard to get along with or what?

Of all the resources on the web for blogging I find that WordPress is by far the best platform (preaching to the choir, I know!) and that the Codex is by far the worst support forum out there. I have never been able to pull myself out of the ditch at anytime with anything offered on the Codex. However, I have found benefit in the links at the Codex and thought I would pass along one of those links in this weeks post. It’s the WordPress e-Commerce Plug-in which just released it’s latest version ( 3.7.5 ) this week.

The e-Commerce Plug-in is a platform with a focus on ease of use and adhering to web standards which I guess is an SEO angle. While I have had little experience with this plug-in, I am going to give it a try on one of my blogs and will report back here in the near future. If this plug-in enhances your revenue, than I guess that is about as extreme as you can get!

How about that new WordPress Update (2.8.6)? Mainly a security update dealing with sanitizing uploaded file names that are sometimes exploited in certain Apache configurations and an XSS vulnerability in “Press This” ………. Man, I don’t even want to go there!

WordPress Images

I’m afraid Brad Callen would not approve!

When working with images in WordPress,  I have always found it easier to hard code the images to the site via the server rather than use the Media Library. I just personally find the file management server side easier to work with than WordPress’s Media Library.

One of the things I like best …