Stylehack

Did you realize that anytime you edit a post after publication WordPress pings any services you have listed in your ping settings… again?! If you’re like me, you make the odd change here and there. Or worse, you find yourself in the position I was just in where I have had to go back and edit some of my older posts after finally upgrading my blog and discovering how much I detested the Autop filter.

I was madly pinging the blogosphere every time I saved during an edit. “Hello World from Stylehack… again! Here are ancient posts I just know you want to read!” [Yeah yeah, they're old but still have some valid content so I didn't want to just delete them.]

Okay, enough said — the scenario for disaster is set (a.k.a. spamming ping services).

Fortunately, I found a great solution, the UP Smart Update Pinger plugin!

Oh goody, yet another undocumented snafu. “-)

If you took advantage, albeit unknowingly, of any of the autop functions in old posts… guess what? Once you install the Disable-WPAutoP plugin, ALL your older posts will need to be reformatted with XHTML tags!

Nice. Figured you’d want to know.

I still love this plugin, however!

Shut the damn thing off using this plug-in:

Disable-WPAutoP

I’d really like to rant some more about the type of development teams that get too big for their britches [cough mozilla cough] like the WP team has done and refuse to admit something that JUST DOESN’T WORK IS A BUG… or at least a bad choice… but, my blood pressure is already too high from wasting yet another afternoon on what should have been a 15 minute posting process.

Have I mentioned lately that I hate the Mozilla Dev Team?

I fully support the Open Source Initiative, both in word and deed (financially). AND, I’m an all purpose hater of sell-outs. “-)

‘Nuff said.