[wp-hackers] Useful Tools?

[Craig Hartel]

If I'm following Carthik's suggestion #2 correctly, then consider me to be 
drooling in anticipation.

One of biggest fears most non-tech users have is in the upgrading process. I 
have that fear; I just get the site set up up the way I like it, and now I have 
to migrate all of that over to the new upgrade. It's tedious. Also, there are 
times when I mistakenly, but intentionally, did NOT upload a file from an 
upgrade. Index.php for sure was one...because I didn't do that, I wound up with 
issues from the improvements made in the new Index.php that, obviously, I didn't 
have because I was using the old file.

Believe me, I see the challenges of this. Currently, I use Alex King's Tasks 2.0 
to manage my sites like that, so I can keep track of what I've done. However, 
it's a lot of work to track the changes and record what I have done and still 
make the actual changes on the upgraded site.

I hope I understood this correctly. If not, well, then I just made an ass of 
myself and you all can go back to your coding now! :)

Craig.
NuclearMoose.

Carthik Sharma wrote:
>>I'm going to be creating some public interfaces for Mark Pilgrim's feed
>>finder (http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_finder/ ) so an enterprising
>>plugin author could (for example) create a plugin that filled in the XML
>>field in the link manager by auto discovering feeds without having to
>>worry about details at too low a level.
> 
> 
> A hook for when a Link is added would be required for this. That would
> be a useful hook for something else I had in mind - FeedonFeeds
> integration. This would be a useful addition.
> 
> 
>>So if you could have any hosted tool or web service to make your life
>>easier, what would it be?
> 
> 
> 1. A wordpress hosted Xref, updated nightly, well linked-to. We could
> even call it a part of the available documentation. :)
> 
> 2. I've thought about this some, it would be neat if we had a tool that created 
> a) a diff of the user's modified index.php (for say 1.0.1) against the
> 1.0.1 default index.php
> b) used that diff, and a diff between the default 1.0.1 template and
> the default 1.2 template to create a new index.php for use with the
> user's upgraded 1.2 blog
> (same is true for 1.2 and 1.3)
> I know it sounds complicated, was just a thought.
> 
> Regards,
> Carthik.
> 
> 
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