For those of you who are regulars of my site, you may have noticed some posts (mainly in your RSS feeds) that were blank. A major pain, I know. Well, this should be fixed now. I was troubleshooting a new Perl script that integrated del.icio.us into my site.

The Perl script I was working on automatically posts daily round-ups of links I post to del.icio.us on my Wordpress blog. I didn’t write the script from scratch, I made improvements to a script that’s been around for a while. I got it from edward.de.leau.net. There were a couple of drawbacks to the original script that I was working to correct. That’s where the hiccups on this site were coming from.

In order to use this script, you need an account with del.icio.us, and a server that allows you to schedule cron jobs. You need to schedule it to run just before midnight GMT (I chose 19:50 AST because my server is set to the AST timezone).

It will log into your del.icio.us account and get all the links you posted that day, and insert a post directly into your Wordpress database. It does NOT use an API to do this, it accesses the database directly. Use it at your own risk.

Link: Daily del.icio.us for Wordpress 3.0