Extra Future[Patrick at Deferred Procrastination has got la petite url working with a WordPress Twitter updater.][link] This is a much-asked-for feature for [la petite url][la] itself.
[link]: https://www.deferredprocrastination.co.uk/blog/2010/auto-tweet-from-wordpress-with-petite-urls/ “Auto-tweet from WordPress with Petite URLs”
[la]: http://extrafuture.com/la-petite-url “la petite url”
[The long wait is over, and la petite url version 2.0 is out the door][link]. WordPress users with auto-update can update at-will, and users who haven’t installed it yet (what’s wrong with you?) [can get it here][wp]. Major changes include: An awesome new options panel, much faster redirects, removing of the old registration for the new one, and a sidebar widget.
[link]: http://extrafuture.com/la-petite-url “la petite url”
[wp]: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/le-petite-url/ “la petite url on WordPress.org”
[The new features][link] allow users to [post and read friends posts][wp] via Twitter clients such as Tweetie and Twitteriffic. This is very clever.
[link]: http://staff.tumblr.com/post/287703110/api “Tumblr Uses Twitter API”
[wp]: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/twitter-api/ “WordPress’ Twitter API Demo”
I’ve been getting this error in WordPress, so I wasn’t using the auto-update functionality, which is a real time-saver. My problem was that WordPress was trying to write to `/tmp/` which is a no-no as my host (Segpub.net) uses Safe Mode. You can solve this issue by adding a couple of directives to your `wp-config.php` file, namely `WP_TEMP_DIR`. Adding these lines to `wp-config.php` fixed the problem for me:
define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’, ini_get(‘upload_tmp_dir’));
putenv(‘TMPDIR=’ . ini_get(‘upload_tmp_dir’));
Thanks to the WordPress forums [for my answer][link].
[link]: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/291823?replies=2#post-1145649 ” WordPress › Support » Upgrade tries to write to root”
[URLs will continue to function until 31 December 2009 and will then go dead][link]. Yet another reason to use a self-hosted short URL service with a system like my own [la petite url][la].
*Update:* [tr.im has reversed it’s decision to shut down][reverse].
[link]: http://blog.tr.im/post/159489555/tr-im-to-december-31-2009 “tr.im URLs | tr.im to December 31, 2009”
[la]: http://extrafuture.com/projects/la-petite-url “la petite url, a personal URL shortener for WordPress”
[reverse]: http://extrafuture.com/2009/08/11/tr-im-apparently-not-shutting-down-now/ “tr.im Apparently Not Shutting Down, Now”
I’m working on a project that requires the use of [Wordpress][word] functions (mainly creating users and such) outside of the WordPress installation. After some Google searches of varying specificity, I’ve found a method that appears to work for both WordPress and WordPress Mu. I’ve reproduced it here for my own purposes, as well as yours.
[word]: http://wordpress.org “WordPress”
WordPress.org member oranfry [posted the following helpful bit of code][wporg], to be inserted in the top of the `wp-load.php`, right after the `
As a big fan of telling people when they’re Doing It Wrong, I’m happy to announce Diggbarred. Diggbarred is [a new plugin][link] from myself and [Shawn Medero][shawn], using [John Gruber’s original blocking code][john] in an easy-to-activate form. You can [fork, modify, or otherwise mutilate the code on Github][git].
[link]: http://extrafuture.com/projects/diggbarred “Official Diggbarred Page”
[john]: http://daringfireball.net/2009/04/how_to_block_the_diggbar “How to Block the DiggBar”
[shawn]: http://shawn.medero.net “Shawn Medero”
[git]: http://github.com/philnelson/diggbarred/tree/master “Diggbarred on Github”