今天把wordpress升级到了2.5beta1, 中文又是一片乱码, 唉,万恶的8-host, 万恶的GBK.

不得已,再去翻wp-db.php. 却发现代码改了,添加了对DB_CHARSET的支持,使用了:

$this->charset = DB_CHARSET;
...
$this->query("SET NAMES '$this->charset'");

来定义数据库连接的编码了

于是马上在我的wp-config.php中添加了一行:

define('DB_CHARSET','UTF8');

F5了一下, 果然好用, 哈哈．以后不需要改wp的core, 直接在config文件中定义就可以了. 方便,方便,相当地方便.

Long time no say… HOHO

I think I was to busy(lazy) to write something here. Until, yesterday I got this pretty program, Windows Live Writer, installed. Surprisingly it supports Wordpress. Cool. Now I don’t have to log onto my site panel and write anymore. So here I write the first post in this month.

Another interesting thing is JIRA. This fu*king cool stuff is almost what I wanted for quite a long time, and it provides more than I expected. But it made me crazy for 2 days because of the installation. I followed every step in the instruction but still failed to install it into my standalone Tomcat server. Finally I installed a standalone version of JIRA – with a internal Tomcat and database. F**k. The only thing I need now is a keygen for it – I have only one month left for the trial version.

The last thing is about offline diary software. Today blog software is popular that no one want to write a offline diary -except me. I need a diary software to write something which I don’t want to publish. I searched for quite a while but found nothing good. I need some thing with a good look – like Live Writer do. But the programs I found were all way too ugly. I will write one by myself – if I have time to.

It was a long time ago when there was a discussion in the wp-hackers list about intergrate OpenID into wordpress. There was suggestion to put it into wordpress core. But there seems to be a final decision from ticket #3616 that it won’t get into core.

That, i think, is partly because of the excellent plugin wp-openid.

Closing as WONTFIX for now. Multiple plugins exist for this functionality. You have also combined the two issues of consuming and serving.

I was waiting for the openid support in wp core until I saw this ticket today. So I installed WP-OpenID right away. It’s a good plugin, though no many option. Support OpenID in commenting is what I wanted for a long time, but I really want to turn off the openid login support – that adds an user in my blog!

Anyway, friends, you can use your openid url to comment on my articles now.
Enjoy!

I updated my local sandbox blog to the latest SVN version. Surprising! The admin panel have a new skin now!

Obviously it’s just launched. Only the upper header and footer are changed. I even got a error in the dashboard. Except this, I love this new style. It’s brighter and with better tab style.

As said in the wp-hackers list, the new design is contributed by happy cog¹. I am sure there will be a fantastic design come with the upcoming wordpress 2.4.

PS: Why not happy cog design a template for wordpress? Am I greedy? Haha…

1. A famous design studio. Products includes a list apart and so on. [↩]

Multilingual posts - a plugin adds language tags to your posts pages – is updated to version 0.2 now.

Changes includes:

1. Insert css styles which can place a background image in your post indicating your post language
2. You can define language direction in “languages.php”. Once it’s defined, the direction will be added when you specify language tag
3. Changed readme file for bettery display in wordpress plugin directory. Also fixed a problem in readme file.

Since this plugin is hosted in the offical wordpress plugin site, you can always download the latest verion at Plugins Directory.

Enjoy!