Author Archives: William P. Davis

New Beta version of Docs to WordPress

Posted on May 10, 2012 by William P. Davis

I’m working on a new version of the Docs to WordPress plugin and would love it if a few people could field test it to make sure I didn’t screw anything up. There were mostly a few simple fixes, though … Continue reading →

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Updates to the Docs to WordPress plugin forthcoming. What would you like to see?

Posted on May 8, 2012 by William P. Davis

I will be working shortly on some upgrades to the Docs to WordPress plugin and wanted to get some input on what people would like to see in the next version. There have been a lot of great ideas floated in … Continue reading →

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Knight News Challenge

Posted on April 12, 2012 by William P. Davis

Just a quick shoutout: The BDN is very honored that our submission to the Knight News Challenge made it to Round 2. Our proposal is to take what we’ve done at the BDN, rewrite the code now that we have … Continue reading →

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Getting from WordPress to InDesign, part 1

Posted on February 2, 2012 by William P. Davis

This, I know, is the code a lot of people have been waiting for. It hasn’t been posted till now mostly because I’ve been trying to package everything to make it plug-and-play. At a certain point it was time to … Continue reading →

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Setting the head of a post using a delimiter in your doc

Posted on December 22, 2011 by William P. Davis

I’ve gotten a lot of requests from people using our Docs to WordPress plugin on how to set a headline that’s different from the title of your Doc, such as we do at the BDN using a pipe. This isn’t a … Continue reading →

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Update to Google Docs to WordPress plugin

Posted on October 20, 2011 by William P. Davis

A few weeks ago, unbeknownst to me, Google made a (wise) change to its APIs to require SSL for all API calls. This caused parts (but not all, apparently) of the Docs to WordPress plugin to stop working. This evening I released … Continue reading →

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Media management in WordPress

Posted on September 29, 2011 by William P. Davis

Media management is, unfortunately, one of the weaker points of WordPress. There are some exciting changes coming for 3.3, but they don’t address some of the core deficiencies, such as the inability to attach a photo to multiple posts.

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On killing our MySQL servers with WP-Cron (updated)

Posted on September 7, 2011 by William P. Davis

We had a fun time killing our site in an unusual manner last night and again this morning.

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Updated Docs to WordPress plugin: Now with better formatting

Posted on August 31, 2011 by William P. Davis

Version 0.3-beta of our Docs to WordPress plugin has been released. It’s a fairly minor release, and only affects people using the cleaner extension, but we just rolled it out internally this morning at the BDN and it’s exciting for us, … Continue reading →

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Appeal for help, because I’m terrible at regex

Posted on August 31, 2011 by William P. Davis

One of the most annoying things about using Google Docs is that none of the styles are inline. It used to be that bold text was wrapped in a <strong> tag and italic text was wrapped in am <em> tag. … Continue reading →

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