Using Wordpress with a mobile phone isn’t the easiest thing to do. There are a few plugins available, but all I’ve tried have their drawbacks. I’ve now installed the WordPress Mobile Plugin which is the only plugin I’ve found that allows me to upload images from my phone (for an example, see my post earlier today).

But this plugin is far from perfect. Some drawbacks I’ve experienced while creating the first post:

• Image uploading didn’t work at first because the plugin tries to store the images in the wrong folder. In the plugin’s only file (wordpress-mobile.php) there is:

  152	$dir_file_path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .'/'.attribute_escape(str_replace(ABSPATH, '', get_settings('upload_path'))) .'/';

  which yields a path that is missing everything between your document root and the folder for uploaded files specified in the Wordpress settings. This is easily fixed by replacing the above line with this:

  1	$dir_file_path = ABSPATH .get_settings('upload_path') .'/';

• The plugin allows you to choose tags as categories in which to put posts you’ve made using the mobile interface. But if you select a tag instead of a category the post will be added to a category whose name equals the tag’s ID.
• The plugins shows ads in the blog’s mobile version. Not a lot, but that is not nice.

By the way, there is a short overview of Wordpress mobile plugins over here.

Well, otherwise it’s working well.

Since 2005, I have been playing with the thought of getting back into the blogging business. I had previously published a development log for a project pretty constantly in that year. Even though I have tried a few times to start a new blog, It didn’t really work out.

A few days ago I stumbled upon the term micro-blogging and got interested what such a thing might be. As it turned out it’s a concept of blogging that takes less time and so seems very attractive to me. My dilemma is that I feel my homepage needs a blog to be complete, but I don’t really want to spend hours writing something no one might read.
Apparently, there is something going on called tumblelogging that concentrates on publishing certain types of media (including text) with little or no comment. Rather quick, I came to like this concept and now I’m writing a post that’s conceptually too long for my new tumblelog.

Additonally to the tumblelogging stuff, I like to keep a record what I’m working on. You can find a list of my current projects going to the Projects (what else?) page of my site. I’ll post here when making progress or when I stumble upon interesting things.

Note that I’m using the full-blown blogging software Wordpress instead of some specialized tumblelogging software. I evaluated such software (mainly Chyrp), but there simply were too few plugins. Wordpress is easily adjusted to the task by adding plugins and in the end it comes down to what content you create anyway.

So in short this blog will be made of two ingredients: development log + tumblelog.

I’ve also updated the site in general, but only the new navigation image (at the top) really is a change that is visible at first.

Have fun!