Some how I missed that Word Press 2.1is out. Truth be told I’ve been worrying a lot less about the infrastructure of blogging - and worrying more about content - which is nice. (Spending most of my work day in Ruby hasn’t made it any easier to switch back to PHP for work on Postie).
Apparently , Postie isn’t compatible with the new version of WordPress. Looks like they added some new stuff on features page (like pseudo-cron and some image/thumbnail api features (it sounds like they’re actually doing stuff in the core that Postie had to handle on its own). Judging by the list this is going to be a lot more complicated to update compared to the switch from 1.5 -> 2.0.
I’m going to end up looking into it -because I’ll be updating my personal blog to 2.1 - and I like Postie so I’ll have to update it (plus if memory serves there are some code fragments submitted in).
I don’t know what the time line is for the update - but if I make progress I’ll announce it.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
while you are at it… want to make some cool drupal modules too? ;)
Instead of doing what I am supposed to be doing I have been farting around with drupal all day… limping along with my pathetic knowledge of php… fun fun fun…
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
The upgrade instructions are… kinda odd. If you follow the quick instructions, things clearly no longer work. Or at least, they didn’t for me, simply because the instructions have you deleting most of the stuff that you have just unpacked. With a modicum of vague thought it’s easy to fix but you probably don’t want to try it when you’re drunk (or have no backups).
February 5th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaase work on getting postie to play nice with 2.1. I can’t figure out how the normal post by email bit works. It’s also a nice easy way to check if GD and some other things are working correctly (Apparently my panorama is too large for GD, I didn’t notice postie broke untill I went to check GD.).
Much to my annoyance it seems 2.1 broke a lot of things. Like I don’t have the fancy inline thumbnail preview on the post page. Not sure what I’m missing.
:P
February 10th, 2007 at 11:12 pm (subscribed to comments)
I have Postie working for mail-in of plain text posts to WP 2.1
I am using it with the Tomatoman stuff and downloaded from Tomatoman’s site. I also am using Markdown Extra plugin.
I zapped the version check to always return true, not a problem.
I am using Markdown Extra and this meant a lot of twiddling with the FilterNewLines routine. I have *plaintext* as the preferred text type (HTML proved more complicated).
From WinXP OE I am getting newlines represented by x0D0A and pairs of newlines by x0D0A0D0A0D0A
From Mac OS X mail I am getting newlines represented by x0D0A and pairs of newlines by x0D0A0D0A.
Here is a clumsy alternative regex which allows me to use Markdown Extra.
$search = array (
“/\r\n\r\n\r\n/”,
“/\r\n\r\n/”,
“/\r\n/”,
“/\r/”,
“/\n\n/”,
“/\n/”
);
$replace = array (
‘ACTUAL_NEW_LINEACTUAL_NEW_LINE’,
‘ACTUAL_NEW_LINEACTUAL_NEW_LINE’,
‘ACTUAL_NEW_LINE’,
‘ACTUAL_NEW_LINE’,
‘ACTUAL_NEW_LINEACTUAL_NEW_LINE’,
‘ACTUAL_NEW_LINE’
);
By the way, whats the *ubb2HTML* markup function doing in there I wonder? I plan to zap it to avoid yet more questions about why some unusual undocumented combination of characters magically convert their text into something unexpected. Will that work OK?
Finally, for now, admin does not get notified of attempts to post from an unlisted address - this is a real strength of Postie, the ways to lock down who can participate - but the PHP mail call doesn’t work for me from Mac mail or WinXP OE. I eventually tracked it down to a problem with the header argument and its inclusion of the Content-type header. I can send a printout of the headers from Mac and WinXP - have it in a text file - if that would help understand.
Basically Postie is a valuable addition to WP, I appreciate your work.
…Ian.
February 11th, 2007 at 3:49 am (subscribed to comments)
What does ‘Run Postie’ do that’s different from a cron? Because the same html email attachment, when cron’ed, has the formatting stripped away- renders fine when get_mail.php is run from inside Postie. Baffling to me, alas, a non-geek.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
That be really nice :)
February 19th, 2007 at 3:14 pm (subscribed to comments)
love the postie thingy man.
please let me know when the update is availeble
Grtz&lck
Michael
February 19th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
I’m running Wordpress 2.1 and am using Postie for my moblog. The only thing I had to change in Postie to get it to work under WP 2.1 was the TestWPVersion() function in postie-functions.php. I just had it return TRUE regardless of the version number. Postie has been working as well as it did in Wordpress 2.0.4. By the way, I’m running a cron job for post updates, not the cron-less version.
I’m sure postie could be made more efficient with the new API functions and all, so I look forward to your new version, but it’s great that it still works in the mean time. Maybe you could release an intermediate fix for the version check in postie-functions for the non-techies. Thanks for all your hard work on this!
July 29th, 2007 at 12:01 pm (subscribed to comments)
Any new developments on the Postie plugin. I was hoping I could finally use a nice tool to do Mobile Blogging and adding pictures through email.
I tried the hints of Brandon but no luck with me. I only seem te be getting the message title and not the full body and the image.
I used the :start and :end indicators but no luck.
Can anybody help me or show me another tool that I could use.
Thanks
Harry