Dec 25
2011

We’re having a low-key holiday this year. I mean really low-key. Aditi’s napping on the couch, the dogs are all sleeping, the cats and the bird are lazily preening themselves and I just fixed Markdown QuickTags.

Markdown QuickTags, my WordPress plugin which adds a massive number of Markdown-editing features to the built-in post/page editor had broken with the…

Jul 10
2011

I just spent the weekend experimenting with the idea of converting this whole blog from WordPress to Jekyll. It’s a blogging system that runs entirely off of static html files, and you can store your posts as individual Markdown files. Add a post and you can regenerate all of the indexes and archives at once and deploy the static site. The speed and stability increase is immense.

Apr 23
2011

I can’t prove that anybody is happier, really, and attraction is entirely subjective. For all I know they were run off by the “invalid header” error[^invalidheader] and never even tried it out, but Markdown QuickTags finally passed the 1000 downloads mark on the WordPress Plugins site. I’m celebrating by diving into nvALT for the weekend, but version 0.8 of MDQT is in the works.

Apr 03
2011

I was tooling around the Vim website looking at blogging plugins this morning. I noticed that one of them, Vimpress, had linked to an old project of mine that allowed you to work with Ultimate Tag Warrior tags through XML-RPC. Since the inclusion of tagging support in WordPress, Ultimate Tag Warrior has been defunct, and so have the UTW-RPC plugin and associated AutoTag TextMate bundle.

Feb 19
2011

This is a quick tip for anyone who may be searching for an answer to the question: “Is there any way to use XMLRPC to send custom post types to WordPress and attach custom taxonomy terms to them?” Yes, there is. It took me longer than it should have to find it, but I’ve successfully uploaded images, and attached them to a “howtos” post type with “level” and “topic” set…

Nov 28
2010

Markdown QuickTags, my WordPress plugin which adds extensive Markdown features to the HTML editor, has been upped to 0.7. The download link has actually been incrementing for the last week, but this is the first real stable release, so I’ve held off on writing this up until today.

The latest version has too many new features to list, but you can get an overview on the plugin…

Nov 12
2010

Introducing Markdown Quicktags, a new WordPress plugin for Markdown lovers! If you edit your blog in Markdown, whether you publish that way or not, this plugin will make your life almost 37% better. It’s quickly turning out to be one of the coolest things I think I’ve ever done!

It replaces the default QuickTags in the WordPress HTML editor with a set of Markdown-optimized…