Facebook will be releasing version 3.0 of their iPhone application soon so I am excited to see what video posting features that app will have.

A month or two back, I changed how Facebook imports my tweets. I tweet quite often, so I didn’t want it to automatically use every tweet as a status update. To solve this, I began using Selective Twitter Status. This allows me to manually choose which tweets are posted to Facebook by appending the hashtag “#fb” to the tweets I’d like posted.

This inadvertently caused the tweets that were automatically generated by my blog posts to cease being sent to Facebook. Doh I usually generate a fair amount of traffic from my Facebook friends seeing a blog post in my status updates, so this morning I decided I wanted to fix this somehow. Here is the really simple solution I came up with, using Twitter Tools 1.6:

via LenFlack.com » WordPress and Selective Twitter Status for Facebook.

Update: It seems that Wordbook only posts entries to my profile and not a status update. I have not been too successful with any solution thus far.

This created a new issue however. My Quawkle blog posts are automatically sent to Twitter as a link post and previously with the Twitter app in Facebook, those blog notifications would automatically appear on my  Facebook status updates. By switching to Selective Twitter, the only way to maintain Quawkle posts ending up in Facebook was to either appending my post titles with #fb (not a clean choice) or by searching for a new Wordpress plugin that would automatically publish notification of my blog posts to Facebook. For this purpose, I just installed Publish to Facebook, a Wordpress plugin for just that purpose. In fact this post will be the maiden voyage using the newly installed Wordpress plugin. Hopefully you will see this on my Facebook status if you are a Facebook friend. Fingers crossed!

When trying to use the pressthis tool I get the error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: htmlspecialchars_decode in /home/content/r/o/b/robertbasil/html/wp-admin/press-this.php on line 554

Line 554:

I’m using php4, I thought this was a php5 error?

The original poster then provided this bug-fix tip to resolve the problem…

I figured out a quick fix.

Since htmlspecialchars_decode only works with php 5.10 and above I just removed that part of the code.

In the press-this.php file on line 554 change this:

<?php if ($selection) echo wp_richedit_pre(htmlspecialchars_decode($selection)); ?>

To this:

<?php if ($selection) echo wp_richedit_pre($selection); ?>

Now it works just fine.

The code really should do a check to see if php 5.1 is installed before calling the htmlspecialchars_decode function.

I tested it and it seems to be working for me now.

via WordPress › Support » pressthis error with 2.7.

When I made a decision last year to get serious about blogging, I had to make two first-step decisions:

1) What platform was I going to use?
and
2) What training tool would I enlist to make me more effective with decision #1?

When I did a book search for WordPress, there didn’t seem to be a lot of options. The first one to catch my eye was Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s WordPress For Dummies. I have purchased and read several of the “DUMMIES” books in the past; some were good and some lacked substance. To my delight, Lisa’s book falls into the former group. First of all, the author is an expert about WordPress. She know what she is writing about and she doesn’t write in an tech-elitist style. She makes the material easy to understand without dumbing down the material as some of the “DUMMIES” series of books tend to do. She also offers “must know” material as well as ideas to stretch your blog beyond the basics.

The best recommendation that I can offer for this book is that I plan to spend my money to buy the second edition – available soon!

WordPress For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

My Amazon review