WordPress Program in Visual Basics .NET
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Hello everyone! I have developed a program that helps me reduce repetitive tasks when posting a new post in WordPress. I made this program because I couldn’t find program that does what I built. It does simple but important tasks that makes my life a lot easier. This is a great little program if you’re running a site that has video contents. Right now it is used for my site only and with your opinion I could be making a fully customizable program to make it work with any WordPress powered site.
The question is, do you think I should set a price for this program or make it free but donates are accepted? What do you think?
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Hi, Congrats.
Can you let us know what exactly your program does? First of all the thing should be tested and if found good it is you who has to decided. Well, it us who has decide whether or not to buy it.
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The program is pretty much self explanatory, as you can see from the screen shot. You enter a title, the content, the thumbnail file name box is for a set custom field value that I use to show thumbnails of all the posts. It’s set to a specific custom field because of the theme I’m using. Category ID # is of course the cat_id= of a specific category you want to make the program click it for you. List categories shows the category IDs of each category and the names of the category next to the corresponding IDs.
Notice there are three buttons on the right side, if you click on Preview, all the data that you’ve entered in the text boxes will be entered into the website. It also grabs the text from the title box and posts it automatically into the IMDb.com website and Google.com images website.
All the data will still be in the text boxes until you click on Reset, which will delete any data and sets the IMDb and Google browser back to their home pages. This is useful because a lot of series of animes that has a lot of episodes on it. For example the anime Bleach has so far 197 episodes, I posted all the videos of each episode starting from episode 001. This sped up posting because all the data stayed the same, all I had to change was the Bleach episode number and the content. Custom field and category stayed the same.
Hope that was a good explanation for you and to others, if I wasn’t clear enough then please feel free to ask me a specific question.
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Excuse me, but which of the three kinds of WordPress does your program work with? I have a strong feeling you’re selling it to people who can’t use it.
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raincoaster, I wasn’t aware there were three kinds of WordPress. Are you referring to WordPress hosted here or on a host you purchased? I assume all WordPress versions uses the same coding and syntax, so if not all versions, then most because all the developers did was add features overtime. If you haven’t updated to the recent WordPress version yet then you need to do so. I hope I answered your question, if not then let me know.
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I don’t think you understand the way WordPress.com works enough to do development of applications for use with it. We don’t update our software here, for instance.
Please do read the sticky thread at the top of the forums on the differences between WP.ORG and WP.COM. And then WP.MU works differently as well, although that’s another issue altogether.
I don’t think you can ask any money for it until you’ve tested it with a blog on each platform.
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Thank you for clearing up the three kinds of WordPresses. I have only worked and tested my program using only the latest downloaded version of WordPress with the famous 5 minute install. Sorry for not making it clear enough but when I come around to it, I will test it out with the other two. One of my editors is using my program right now and it works for her with no problem.
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Yes, thanks for pointing me to the right direction. Keep an eye out for my product if you’re around WP.org
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manacim,
If you’re trying to automate the webbrowser control (it appears from your screenshot)—and fill in the post that way—you could easily run into more headaches in the long run than simply using the wordpress XML-RPC API. I use that for my photo posts here on wordpress.com.
To get your API key, look on http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/profile.php (if you have a wordpress.com blog). Then look at http://www.emadibrahim.com/2007/07/31/calling-the-wordpress-xmlrpc-api-from-vbnet/ and http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_Support for some help getting started.
Also take a look around your xmlrpc.php in your wordpress install to see what’s available.
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I’d also lean towards “donations” or free on the program unless you made it pretty special ;)
Some ideas for you:
- Show the category hierarchy in a treeview control with checkboxes.
- Do the actual posting in a background thread to allow them to move along as quick as possible. Save the posts to disk or local database temporarily, then the other thread removes them as it makes the posts. This would allow someone to continue posting with or without an internet connection, then the program would just post them once they were connected again.
- Be sure to experiment and test completely before setting it loose on anyone :D.
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