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101 Fabulous Freebies

April 17th, 2006

PC World Magazine has a list of 101 Fabulous Freebies. This is a list of some high quality, free software.

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Testing Croissanga Xanga cross-poster

April 15th, 2006

I have been testing the Croissanga cross-poster for posting Wordpress articles to Xanga. It seems to work perfectly, and does not create a duplicate when you edit a post as the Xanga Crossposter does. If you delete your Wordpress post, the plugin will delete the Xanga cross-post as well.

The only trick to installing it is that you have to manually create a table in the SQL database. My host is Bluehost.com, and they provide phpMyAdmin in the control panel. So adding the table is simple. Here’s how to do it:

  1. Go into phpMyAdmin and open the database for your Wordpress installation. You do this by selecting the appropriate database from the drop down box on the left side. If you installed Wordpress via Fantastico, it is probably named something like _wpdp1.
  2. In the database, select the SQL tab at the top of the page.
  3. Go to the file named croissanga.sql that came with the plugin. Open it up and copy out the CREATE TABLE command (you can omit the two comment lines starting with “–”). The command is on several lines, so be sure not to leave anything out.
  4. Go to the “Run SQL Query” box and clear out whatever is in there, then paste the CREATE TABLE command in there, then click on “Go.”
  5. If everything works correctly, you should see a message saying that the table has been created

That’s the only tricky part. Now you just need to open up the file croissanga.php and put in your Xanga user name and password in the place indicated near the top of the file. Then just upload the file and activate the plugin.

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