Comments on: Upgrading WordPress from 2.1 to 2.3

By: Ads

Ads — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:50:03 +0000

Thanks Daniel, now it makes more sense. There are Textile plugins for WordPress so MarsEdit doesn’t need to convert what it sends to HTML… but I’m guessing that it could, and maybe that if it did it would make the blog archive’s content formatting more stable against future changes to Textile processing on the server-side? I’m not sure if this would be good for remote clients generally, but would maybe make the database contents more consistent.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:06:06 +0000

Thanks for giving MarsEdit a spin. As it sounds like you’ve discovered, MarsEdit more or less always just sends what you type into it. It doesn’t generate HTML from Textile, except for to preview.

Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions during your trial.

Daniel

By: Ads

Ads — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:30:39 +0000

I hate the metallic taste of panic when you realise that “it’s all gone, all my work is gone!”

Actually, not far from what happened :-) I hadn’t backed up in a while, and had a different version of WordPress on localhost that I totally forgot about when I decided to synchonise them. Nice.

Re. FCKEditor, the Office 2003 skin is surprisingly accurate, though the grab ridges are decorative. Personally, I want to be able to use either Textile or Markdown when writing for the blog. But this could be very helpful for content editors that I work with since they wouldn’t have to bother with the wiki syntax.

By: Dan Todd

Dan Todd — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:17:36 +0000

I know your pain. I hate the metallic taste of panic when you realise that “it’s all gone, all my work is gone!”

Personally, I prefer to use good ol’ fashion html to do anything fancy. I do seem to use FCKEditor when I install a WYSIWYG editor. I’ve got it working a Rails web app and in Drupal 6 (neither is hard) – perhaps it is worth checking out as a free alternative.