Adding conversations to my blog’s homepage
Thanks to a little hacking of Movable Type, I’ve added three new features to the right-hand column on the “home page”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/. You can now see:
* Last five trackbacks. While those looking at individual threads will see which other sites have linked to me, this seemed a better way to highlight that there may be a [...]
Idea for a Movable Type plugin
I want to let people in comments refer to other comments, and then have the plug-in auto-link to those comments. The idea would be to let people say:
bq. _In comment16, Rick said…_
The plug-in would look for strings that say “commentxxx” where xxx is the number assigned to the comment, and then auto-link the string to [...]
Stop that comment spam
Jay Allen has “released”:http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/10/mtblacklist_stop_spam_now “MT-Blacklist”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/.
I’ve installed it (if you did your own Movable Type install you’ll be fine — you just need to ftp a few files up to your server and run the config) and look forward to cutting down on the number of ridiculous comments left here.
Most interesting (as noted by “Ben”:http://www.sixapart.com/log/2003/10/comment_spam.shtml at [...]
Setting up a “reviews” blog
This looks like “a great tutorial”:http://www.sunpig.com/martin/archives/2003/09/14/a_reviews_blog_or_sidebar_reviews_with_movable_type/ to adding a “reviews” tutorial on your Movable Type-powered blog.
Found at “ETC.”:http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/ who showed up in my referral logs (they liked my “tutorial”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/001853.html on using MT to manage your blogroll).
Interesting blog enhancements
First, from “Lilia Efimova”:http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/09/22.html#a764 — the “Waypath plguin”:http://www.waypath.com/downloads (for both Radio and Movable Type) that lets you show possibly related links from other blogs. It apparently identifies text strings in the current post and attempts to match them to others in the blogosphere. I haven’t played with it yet, but it strikes me as something [...]
Movable Type enhancement
Over at my Dean campaign blog, I mentioned that I helped the campaign “update”:http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/000727.html the official campaign blog over the weekend. Specifically, we added permalinks to comments and added “mail this entry to a friend” functionality. Both are simple tweaks to Movable Type that greatly enhance the weblog. One of my readers “asked”:http://www.rklau.com/dean2004//002282.html how I [...]
Maximizing Movable Type
Maximizing The Power of Blog Software Interesting ideas from A Whole Lotta Nothing [via Dennis Kennedy] on getting the maximum value out of Movable Type: “It’s pretty common for people new to weblogging to embrace the simplicity of publishing, and crave it in the rest of their tools. Once you start blogging and the pain [...]
MTTextile - another excellent plugin
I’m starting to get the hang of “Movable Type”:http://www.movabletype.org/ so that I can go beyond the basics and push it in interesting ways. I just found “Brad Choate’s excellent MTTextile plugin”:http://bradchoate.com/past/mttextile.php - and for anyone who uses MT this is just about a must have.
It greatly simplifies text entry - so that instead of adding [...]
Smarty pants plugin to Movable Type
I just installed John Gruber’s “smarty pants” plugin to Movable Type. The oddly named but quite interesting little hack is designed to take straight ASCII text and convert it to typographically “proper” characters. For example, the quotes around smarty pants and proper are now auto-magically converted to curly quotes. And — get this — those [...]
Who wants Trackback? I sure do…
I forget where I read this, but whoever said it really nailed it. Trackback isn’t what I want. I want it in the other direction. I want to know which of my outbound links were the most popular. Yes yes, we know how to do it.
[via Scripting News]
I disagree. I first asked for Trackback [...]
