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firefox blogging extension – Performancing
By Martin English | December 21, 2005
This and the previous post have been made using performancing – an fx 1.5 extension. I had upgraded to 1.5 a couple of weeks ago (not long after it came out) and since my extensions (Adblock, ColorZilla, IE View, Sage and Greasemonkey) are now all supported, I had no problem adding this one.
I can’t speak about support for other blogs, but the wordpress support is good. The setup was intuitive (just as well, documentation is non existent). I use a custom wordpress blog, and all I had to do was click the “Settings” button, enter my http://mywebsite.com/blog/xmlrpc.php, enter the admin user and password, and I was up and posting. It includes :
categories (just like the wp-admin/post.php? page),
has its own wysiwig and source code editor,
a live preview,
drag and drop of text (including formatting)
UPDATE: No problem so far … I can even pick up a previous post from within the extension and update..
UPDATE2: I’m a bit of tinkerer when it comes to tools like this, so I have no fear of installing software and seeing what happens (I do have backups coming out the wazoo though…); The only real problem i see with the performancing tool is that (for wordpress, anyway) people won’t believe how easy it is to use…
To that end I’ve thrown some words together – a Dummies version of implementing the extension for WordPress. The only thing to remember is that if you are running a blog under the wordpress.com domain (like scoble), you are a wordpress.com blogging service, otherwise you are using a wordpress custom service
- Install the performancing extension. This does require FireFox 1.5
- Restart firefox.
- The top menu item on your right-click menu is now performancing
- The first time you select this menu item, you will need to tell the extension where your blog lives.
- Select the settings tab,
- Select the blogging service type,
- Add your API extension. This should be http://mywebsite.com/xmlrpc.php -except that if your blog is installed at a sub directory level (like http://martin-english.com/whatsup/ ), then this should be reflected in the name ( http://mywebsite.com/myblog/xmlrpc.php )
- The next screen asks for your wordpress user (such as admin) and password and validates the connection.
Repeat steps 5 to 8 for each wordpress (or other blogging service) blog you want to access from the extension.
Now, when ever you come across something you want to blog on, or even just to save as a link-list on your blog or within the extension, just right click, select performancing and blog away.
Some generic links include Drag and Drop Blogging and Tabs, Windows and Browsers (other options for the editor if the split window isn’t your thing).
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December 23rd, 2005 at 3:40 pm
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