It’s not often, but we get wrong number calls at our house. Usually it’s someone trying to reach the local Dairy Queen. (whose number now is nothing like ours, but apparently USED to be one digit off!) Every blue moon or so, we’ll get a call intended for someone else.
I came home last night and a wrong number called the house and left a message on the machine. It was from a local insurance office leaving a life insurance quote. I laughed to myself and deleted the message. Part of me wondered for whom the call was really meant — if I knew, I’d let them know that they could probably get a MUCH cheaper rate with my insurance carrier. LOL!
A comment left on my plugin announcement post has pointed me in a new direction. It turns out that this function indeed DOES exist in WordPress, but it is highly under-documented barely mentioned in the WordPress Codex. I think initially my searches were too narrow, which is why I never ran across any of the following information.
Gonahkar’s comment gave me something new to search on, and I was able to find it mentioned in the WordPress Codex under WordPress Files:
wp-links-opml.php
Produces OPML output of Links that were added to the blog via the WordPress admin menu.
A note at the top of the page states that the file descriptions are for WordPress Version 2.x. I was unable to find this file mentioned anywhere else in the documentation. However, under WordPress Features I stumbled across a reference to the export function:
Exporting
Did we say you can also export an OPML file with your list o’ links?
Very cute, guys … c’mon, where is the rest of the documentation on this? From this point, I clicked through to the section on the Links Manager. The page starts with the following:
WordPress allows you to store a set of external links, also known as your blogroll. These links can be put into categories, imported, exported, added, deleted, and edited.
However, the export feature is not mentioned again on the page, nor any others pertinent to WordPress’ current release. The only other mention that I was able to find was this:
These are from the WordPress 1.2 changelog, which tells me that this ability has most likely been in WordPress a while. It’s highly possible it’s been forgotten, or maybe it’s been left out for a good reason. I can’t but speculate as to its reason … but at least now I know it does exist.
I may revise my plugin in the next few days to include this information and will most likely alter its purpose/function.
You know, sometimes it’s something little that makes your day. I sit and read my feeds and see something that’s either really sweet, or slap-knee funny, and just puts you in a good mood. Here are a couple examples of such that I ran across today:
A spokesman for the pawnbroker says that this move attracts customers who wouldn’t want to pawn jewelry or the like, but a valuable bottle of wine is discreet enough to remove from the home.
Funny thing … in our house, alcohol would be one of the first things we’d notice missing!
There’s a Monty Python skit in there somewhere, I just know it!
I got all kinds of weird things via email. Hell, half of them are from Uncle Monster. ;P hehehe… But he’s not the only one … I have a friend in CA who owns a little San Diego carpet cleaning company. He sent me a whole slew of stuff today (bored are we, George? ;)), including two pieces in the animal kingdom that caught my eye: apparently it’s not the feathers that makes a bird, and scientists work on fishing for the lazy. The first one kind of surprised me … I always thought peacock feathers were the ultimate end-all-be-all of sexy costumes of the animal world.
Shows what I know.
Senate says ‘no’ to guns on campus
Several local ‘Bama blogs are already steaming over news the proposed campus gun bill has been blocked by the Senate. A shame really, because personally I thought that was a pretty good damned idea! Per Erwin, it was “designed to discourage gunmen by making them aware someone could shoot back quickly.”
