{"id":323,"date":"2006-06-30T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T19:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/30\/tweaking-not-blogging\/"},"modified":"2006-06-30T16:06:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T20:06:34","slug":"tweaking-not-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/30\/tweaking-not-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweaking, not Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have time to write this week, but have had some time to tweak the site and try a few plug-ins.<\/p>\n<p>The first new tool is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/performancing.com\/\">Performancing<\/a>, a Firefox plug-in that allows me to write from with my browser and post directly to this blog. (I&#8217;m using it now!) I find it much more forgiving than the WordPress built in editor.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I have changed the theme (with a big shout out to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rickmahn.com\/\">Rick Mahn<\/a> for sending me the <em>Contempt<\/em> theme files) and modified it to include <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/automattic.com\/code\/widgets\/\">Sidebar Widgets<\/a><\/em>. It took me <em>far<\/em> too long to figure out how to do this. To save others the trouble, here are my notes:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Using FTP:<\/p>\n<p><tt>copy widgets folder to ..\/wp-content\/plugins<br \/>\ncopy contempt folder to ..\/wp-content\/themes<br \/>\ncopy ..\/wp-content\/plugins\/widgets\/default\/functions.php<br \/>\nand ..\/wp-content\/plugins\/widgets\/default\/sidebar.php<br \/>\nto ..\/wp-content\/themes\/contempt\/ <\/tt><\/p>\n<p>Go into WP Plugins, activate Widgets, and there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have time to write this week, but have had some time to tweak the site and try a few plug-ins. The first new tool is Performancing, a Firefox plug-in that allows me to write from with my browser and post directly to this blog. (I&#8217;m using it now!) I find it much more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-5d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}