I just launched my first Chrome Extension. a tool to remotely post to WordPress from a chrome extension using XMLRPC.
If you have WordPress please help me out testing to make sure it works.
TO BETA TESTERS:
This should take less than 5 minutes.
It is a 3 step process
STEPS:
Install the chrome extension
fill in 3 fields in tool
post to your blog
REQUIREMENTS:
Chrome Browser
Wordpress
XMLRPC Turned on in your admin
NOTES:
When you get to the blog path, make sure your blog url points directly to your xmlrpc.php file.
It is in the root of your directory: e.g http://www.example.com/blog/
You need the last shash in the path.
No information regarding access info gets stored or shared.
GET THE EXTENSION
Please let me know if you encounter any problems.
Thanks!!
I have a special announcement for today and I am very excited to say that RomotePress, a Google Chrome Extension for easily posting to your blog, is now live.
It is simple and allows you to easily and quickly post to your blog.
Got an Idea for a post? Do not lose it, just open the extension and start typing.
There is plenty of room for improvement and growth, but wanted to get this out there since it has already been very useful to myself.
Simply supply your blog url and login credentials and it connects to your WordPress through XML-RPC. Best of all, you can close out the extension, and it will remember your place.
Take a look, let me know how it works, and if you were wondering, this post was made with RemotePress. Rate it and happy posting.
RemotePress
I am making great progress with my Google Chrome Extension. I Have posting successfully working, now what I need to accomplish is allowing the user to edit a post, already created, and modify categories and or tags. XML-RPC really has a great set of functions you can call to pull in and remotely control WordPress right from any app or mobile device. Were talking from posting, commenting and users. These functions are very useful. This extension isn’t going to go overboard with features, basically quick and fast way to get a blog post up there.
While planning, I was a little worried that if you post HTML inside the text box, it would not display HTML in the blog post, only the code, but I was able to find out it reads and understands the HTML. That is a huge plus.
Soon, I will be releasing an extension I hope many can fid useful. There will be a few surprises included to make the experience and functionality really fun to use.
I encourage you to check it out once it is in market. I will follow up with some more examples of code as I make my progress.
Cheers
There comes a time in every apps life, where saving data needs to be done to accomplish multiple things. There are two ways in which you can save data locally, without using a database. But which one do I use when? Well lets take a look.
Session storage you can think of as a global item. A piece of data that can be accessed anywhere in your app. A localStorage item is specific to one page within the application.
If you have an application that requires a login with user name and password, it would be a better idea to store information in the session since it would need to be passed around page to page.
Don’t forget, your password and username are kept unencrypted if done the wrong way. Taking advantage of a database could benefit.
The best thing about using either, is the syntax is literally the same for storing and getting values. localStorage.setItem(‘username’, ‘admin’); or sessionStorage.setItem(‘username’, ‘admin’).
Try it out, what do you personally use? Let me know!
Here is the source to my tutorial on determining if your Chrome Extension has started for the first time. To get a walk though, check it out below.
I hope you like the file, let me know about your HTML5 localStorage adventures!
Hi im Tim and I love to do experiments and take adventures online. Professionally I am a Digital Media Producer out of Boston, MA and design, develop and produce interactive media.
