Right, so this is probably not for everyone – but I just wanted to share.
Vim plugin – not this time
Before you just say – “hey there is a plugin for that” – (If you don’t know, Vim as a bunch of plugin and I would advise you check VimAwesome to get an idea of how many things you can do with this tiny piece of software.) So obviously among all the plugins, there are a few dedicated to manage your WordPress blog directly in VIM. However, after I tried doing this in the past with Sublime Text – turned out to be too much of an issue and was interfering with my regular coding sessions.
WP-CLI is your friend
So lets start with the fact that WP-CLI *is* awesome in itself.
In case you never heard of it – it is a very clean – intuitive – command line tool for managing WordPress.
It is designed to handle most of (nearly everything) of WordPress (and if you wanna more about it – just go check their website)
and it turns out you have a few “interactive” editing tools for publish…
Handy commands
$ wp post
The core command to manage your post – i.e : creating, listing, editing, updating, etc.
- Create a new post
$ wp post create ./source-file.txt –post_category=105 –post_title=”You title”
2. List existing draft
$ wp post list –post_type=”draft”
3.Edit an existing draft**
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$wp post edit 1443
which will edit the given post (in VI – if vim is your default editor) – and then when you just escape – save exit – it will auto publish the new version.
That’s basically it.
Now – further development are about combining this tool with a similar tool – producing text – like Notional Velocity (Mac) or Terminal Velocity (Linux/Unix) – SimpleNote (Windows/Mac/Linux). and adding some extra commanding line tooling for image preview and image upload for which we could use tranfer.sh maybe…
That is really all there is to it – but I just to share cause i was excited about this whole set up.