Comments on: WordPress “File-based Posts” Plugin (v1.04)

By: Jurriaan

Jurriaan — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:02:02 +0000

Just wanted to say that this plugin still works flawless and is superb
Greetings from the Netherlands.

By: walterbyrd

walterbyrd — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:54:34 +0000

I can not get this to work with my shared hosting. No matter what I do, I get the error message:

The specified base directory “. . . . ” does not seem to exist (or is not readable by the web server); ignoring.

The directory does exist, and the permissions are wide open. I suspect my web-hoster – dot5hosting – is doing some odd linking thing. But how do I get around that? I have tried doing a pwd from ftp, and I have tried the dot5hosting file manager. I don’t have shell access. Nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

I am using wordpress 2.3.1.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:41:57 +0000

Hi, this is a very useful plugin.
My comment is only to stay that I confirm that:
1) it works under WordPress 2.3
2) replacing all “html” occurences by “php” in the download file allows using PHP files in place of plain HTML (use the exec-PHP plugin as well).

Thanks very much!

By: Raam

Raam — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:22:49 +0000

This is an excellent plugin! However, being limited to one directory is not very useful if you plan to manage many files this way. I was planning on writing all my articles by hand and then using this plugin to include them in WordPress. However, all my articles (and their associated pages) would have to be in the same directory. It would be very helpful if I could specify “FILE: project1/intro.html” to specify that the file is located in a subdirectory of the directory specified in the Options. If this is an easy fix, any pointers on what I would need to do to modify the plugin would be helpful. I have a decent understanding of PHP.

Thank you for this plugin!

By: Dell

Dell — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:46:04 +0000

Thanks for it …was looking for a similar plugin !

By: Adam's Pants

Adam's Pants — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:42:10 +0000

Nice work Jeffrey. Much like Bob I’ve found much comfort in the ‘static include’ path, and I currently author a site with roughly 80-90 articles. Due to the structure of the blog and the nature of my (often obtuse) workflow, the ability to work on and include external files is a must.

Recently I’ve been (cautiously) thinking of moving to a system like WordPress and if your plugin works as it looks like it does, you would have solve my biggest hurdle.

Kudos!

By: Jeffrey Friedl

Jeffrey Friedl — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:26:34 +0000

The only downside I see is that you’d have to inject the 150 files by hand
(use the WordPress web interface to say “FILE: …..” 150 times). The plugin
has no way to automate adding files.

But, once added, indeed, you can do what you want (change the files and the blog-view of the pages changes immediately).

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:53:50 +0000

I’m an old-school HTML hand coder, and am just starting to tentatively use WordPress to manage some portions of two sites. On one site I have an existing news section which consists of about 150 static HTML pages. Being accustomed to working with a text editor on the Real Files with all their data inside, I find I have a superstition about dumping all that material into the black hole of a database I don’t understand at all.

Would your plugin perhaps be appropriate for this kind of use: I could keep my existing 150 news files, comment out more or less everything outside the HTML , and then have WordPress access them via your plugin. As I add new news items, I can just create new static files as I have been doing all along. (And the virtue of having them continue to exist as independent files is that, if I have a mind to, I can easily do a search-and-replace through them, or change something about their format or style easily in my text editor, which I know how to use well.)

Can you see any obstacles or downsides to this approach? Many thanks for your work on this plugin, and any insights you can provide.