http://birdhouse.org/software Scot Hacker's Misc Scripts and Utils Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:20:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a very crude mass category deletion script for WordPress. I recently inherited a WordPress site with more than 6000 categories. After deleting a ton of old posts, we were left with more than 4000 unused categories, and I needed a way to remove them quickly. Couldn't find a ... http://birdhouse.org/software/2008/04/cleancats/ Super fast way to install WordPress for clients, via subversion. Yes, users can often self-install via Fantastico or similar programs, but what guarantee do you have that they'll upgrade as soon as new releases become available? Letting users run old versions of web software is a great way to get ... http://birdhouse.org/software/2008/04/wp-create/ A dirt-simple WordPress plugin that lets you provide workflow docs to your authors and editors from within the WP admin interface. Instructions: Unpack this folder to your plugins directory and activate it. Click on the Dashboard and you'll see a new tab called "NGNO Docs." Within that, you'll find documentation I ... http://birdhouse.org/software/2008/01/wp-workflow-docs/ A WordPress plugin aimed primarily at events sites, where you want to be able to timestamp posts in the future but have them appear immediately (by default, WordPress will not display a future timestamped post until its go-live date rolls around). This plugin sets the post_status field to "publish" rather ... http://birdhouse.org/software/2007/12/futurepost/ Designed for Mac users with an iPod but no PDA who want to do paperless geocaching complete with descriptions, log entries and hints. Uses the iPod's "Notes" feature to display complete cache description pages. gpx2ipod is built on top of gpsbabel. Note: I'm not likely to continue development of gpx2ipod, for ... http://birdhouse.org/software/2007/11/gpx2ipod/ Designed for hosts with lots of individual WordPress blogs to manage. If all blogs are managed via subversion, this script can iterate through all of them and upgrade each to the latest version in seconds. Here at Birdhouse Hosting, we use this system every time WordPress is updated, and are able ... http://birdhouse.org/software/2007/07/wp-mass-upgrade/ Sends periodic email notifications of new WordPress blog entries (in either plain text or HTML mode) to a separate subscribers mailing list. Maintains cache file recording ID of last-sent post. On subsequent runs, sends all posts created since the previous run. Currently driving weekly email updates from birdhouse.org and other sites. About Sends ... http://birdhouse.org/software/2006/12/wp-digest/ Sends email announcements to your MT Notifications list or to an external mailing list on recent Movable Type weblog entries. About Sends email announcements to your MT Notifications list or to an external mailing list on recent Movable Type weblog entries. Determines last blog entry sent and mails out excerpts of ... http://birdhouse.org/software/2006/04/mtblogmail/ Harvests bad IP addresses from multiple sources and adds them to the ConfigServer firewall (CSF). This version works with WordPress and Movable Type weblogs, and optionally the exim ACL deny list. Future versions will scan other sources for bad IPs as well. Download reducer http://birdhouse.org/software/2006/01/reducer/ This is a script for WHM/cPanel administrators to help them keep tabs on client mailboxes approaching or exceeding their quotas. Sends warning messages to owners of near-quota mailboxes and a separate summary message to postmaster or other address. Must be run as root, or via root crontab. Download checkmailquota http://birdhouse.org/software/2005/10/checkmailquota/