Comments on: Making a Blook with Wordpress and Pages

By: coolreddy

coolreddy — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:13:05 +0000

Thank you so much Tobeon.. You rock! This works. Now the next question: I have two categories personal and business. I want to add another “and” to the query so that I can fetch only a specified category.

I tried adding “and post_category=0, but that doesn’t help. Looks like the category name is stored in wp_terms.I tried adding wp_terms.name=’Personal’, but that doesn’t work as well. I am sure it’s an easy one for a MySQL wiz.. Anyone one have any thoughts?

By: Tobeon

Tobeon — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:51:56 +0000

Ah ha, simple solution. Edit the php file and on line 35 add “and post_status=’publish’”

e.g.

$query = “select wp_posts.ID, post_date, post_title, post_author, post_content, display_name from wp_posts left join wp_users on wp_posts.post_author=wp_users.ID where post_date >= ‘$date_start’ and post_date <= ‘$date_end’ and post_status=’publish’”;

(I add “and post_type=’post’” aswell because I don’t want my pages in there!)

By: Tobeob

Tobeob — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:26:19 +0000

Fantastic idea! Unfortunatly I am getting the same problem as coolreddy :-(

By: coolreddy

coolreddy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:41:12 +0000

Awesome! This is a great script. I use my wordpress install as my personal daily diary, and wanted a way to get a report of what I did during a particular week. This works great! Thanks a lot for sharing this. The only problem I see with the script is that it collects all the different revisions of the post. For now I disabled the revision control, but it still dumps 2 versions of the same post. Any ideas? Thanks!

By: jenn

jenn — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:49:27 +0000

Any chance you’ll write up a more step-by-step tutorial on how to use this little gem for those of us who aren’t terribly techie? I’ve got a basic knowledge of CSS, and I *think* I’ve entered the correct info in the script for my personal preferences. But, when you say “upload it somewhere and pull it up in your browser” I get lost (on what should probably be the easiest part!). Can you give me a little more direction on where a good place to upload it is?

By: Jeff T.

Jeff T. — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:35:38 +0000

So, is there an easy way to do this for wordpress.com blogs? Or should I just covert to wordpress.org… since I know I will eventually someday anyways…

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:33:12 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this!!!!! You saved me a TON of work. You’re great. The only glitch I ran into was that lulu wouldn’t accept a Pages document nor would it accept a PDF that was created from Pages. So, I had to export my Pages document as a Word document and then it worked fine.

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By: John

John — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:04:10 +0000

Thanks for the script… worked like a charm on my wife’s blog. Just submitted a 490 page blook of our family to Lulu.

Lulu wouldn’t accept the PDF exported by Pages (lulu evidently doesn’t support the Mac 10.4.11 PDF encoding from Pages 08). I re-uploaded as a .doc, and worked fine. Odd.

I’ve been trying to accomplish this seemingly simple task for about 3 months. Thanks a million!
John

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:47:51 +0000

I see my husband left a comment above — that was a long time ago now. :-)

Just wanted to thank you for the script you wrote! I saw a blook service on a friend’s page but it used Blogger — so I asked around to my technologically-gifted friends and my brother Alex quickly got back to me with this post. My husband (Nathan) then used your script to print out my blog. It was the best birthday present ever — I am so excited! Thanks so much for sharing this!

Already a few of my blogger-friends with Wordpress have asked about it — I am referring them over here. Thanks!

By: chelle

chelle — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:56:19 +0000

lol ok, I think I must be doing something wrong … I click and it WORKS! w00t and then I am …. what the … hehe Thanks for updating the link. I look forward to playing around with the script! Seriously thought I was going crazy loco!

By: Connor

Connor — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:53:00 +0000

I’ve updated the link – should be working now.

By: chelle

chelle — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:39:48 +0000

I clinked the link and was sent to a garbled page … is this script still available? I am very interested in trying it out :) Thanks

By: m&m

m&m — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:47:00 +0000

sorry…missed that. Obviously, I’m not a techie. I finally get it, though.

By: Connor

Connor — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:16:52 +0000

M&M,

As the post notes, this is only for Wordpress. :) Hosted blogs (on blogspot.com and wordpress.com) prevent access to the full database, and usually only allow you to export the data in a proprietary format that would have to be parsed through… A project for someone else, perhaps. :)

By: m&m

m&m — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:59:20 +0000

Does this work with Blogger?

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By: Connor

Connor — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:40:50 +0000

Nathan, the link has been updated to point to a zip file instead. Save that to your computer and that should be usable.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:17:00 +0000

I just tried to download the script but I’m getting a mysql_connect() error.

Could you fix this so I can get your script?

Thanks!
–
Nathan