sillybean http://www.sillybean.net reading, writing, web design, and the intersections thereof Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Another WordPress plugin: Assign Missing Categories http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/another-wordpress-plugin-assign-missing-categories/ http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/another-wordpress-plugin-assign-missing-categories/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:02:18 +0000 Stephanie http://www.sillybean.net/?p=1839 I’ve written another WordPress plugin as a result of one of my client projects. After I imported old blog posts from Blogger into WordPress, all the Blogger tags had become WordPress categories. That was a huge number of categories, so I used the category-to-tag converter on the whole lot of them… only to realize that quite a few of them were then left with no categories. Since a lot of WordPress code assumes that every post has at least one category, the situation quickly became untenable.

Rather than edit each post by hand, I whipped up some code to assign the default category to all the screwed-up posts. If you’re in the same boat, you can now download it and fix your life with the press of a button. Enjoy.

]]> http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/another-wordpress-plugin-assign-missing-categories/feed/ Harvard Law prof and two students go after the RIAA. http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/harvard-law-prof-and-two-students-go-after-the-riaa/ http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/harvard-law-prof-and-two-students-go-after-the-riaa/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:04:42 +0000 Stephanie http://www.sillybean.net/?p=1833 Harvard Law prof and two students go after the RIAA. — Heroes of the week.

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]]> http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/g-speak/feed/ The Matrix runs on Windows. http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/the-matrix-runs-on-windows/ http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/the-matrix-runs-on-windows/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:21:41 +0000 Stephanie http://www.sillybean.net/?p=1824 The Matrix runs on Windows. Ow. It hurts to laugh that hard.

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]]> http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/cake-in-a-mug/feed/ The new Watchmen posters are oooh, shiny. http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/the-new-watchmen-posters-are-oooh-shiny/ http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/the-new-watchmen-posters-are-oooh-shiny/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:02:37 +0000 Stephanie http://www.sillybean.net/?p=1818 The new Watchmen posters are oooh, shiny.

]]> http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/the-new-watchmen-posters-are-oooh-shiny/feed/ Catch you on the flip side, @MarsPhoenix. http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/catch-you-on-the-flip-side-marsphoenix/ http://www.sillybean.net/2008/11/catch-you-on-the-flip-side-marsphoenix/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:02:42 +0000 Stephanie http://www.sillybean.net/?p=1815 Catch you on the flip side, @MarsPhoenix. Good work. Sleep well.

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