Really been enjoying David Lebovitz’s blog lately. Check out Merguez Corn Dogs, My Favorite Kitchen Tip[s], Ever, and Mustard Glasses…
Check out Jodi’s lovely photos in It’s Always Tagine O’Clock in Morocco
Word I had to look up: eleemosynary (it means charity)
Update, January 10, 2012: Whoa, the band Centro-Matic used the word eleemosynary in their song Patience For The Ride:
eleemosynary was your call
but you lied to the lonely hearts
on your desperate fall
How to set up a local copy of your WordPress blog
Why might you want to do this?
- To access your posts while you’re away from the internet (long flights, container ships, developing countries, etc.)
- To compose posts with WordPress’ native editing and preview tools, rather than client blogging apps
- To speed up the process of editing posts, because the internet where you are is very slow or very costly
- Or perhaps some combination of the above…
This is how I managed to keep my blog up to date while I was “on the road” over the last year, even when I didn’t have access to the internet. As long as I had power (which was not always a given), I was able to compose drafts (usually in a text editor), edit photos (in GIMP), and then layout/revise posts (in my local copy of WordPress). When I was ready to publish, and had access to the internet, it was a trivial process of uploading the photos (via SSH), copy-and-pasting the text over, and pressing “Publish”.
In fact I found it so much faster to compose and revise posts locally, that I’ve continued to use this set up even after returning to fast internet connections. Think about how many times you’ve hit that “Save Draft” button and waited for WordPress to “return” so you could reload the post preview tab—and you probably understand what I mean.
The steps I describe are based on my past experience of setting up a local web development environment on my laptop. Of course I ran into a few gotchas along the way, so I documented the process here for future reference. I don’t necessarily recommend this approach for everyone, but I figured it might offer some interesting insight into how I do things.