Installed new plugins today, hope they help some folks pimp out their blogs 🙂 ExcludeCategories (MTEntriesExCat) – this plugin allows exclusion from all posts specified in the “categories” attribute (opposite of regular MTEntries.) BONUS: How to create a SideBlog using MTEntriesExCat courtesy of the ever lovely Brandy QuickCode – text filer plugin RandomLine – Lets… Continue reading ExcludeCats, QuickCode,RandomLine plugins installed today
MTCountdown (MTCountup) plugins added
Today I added the MTCountdown plugin to weblogs.us V1 and V2 sites. What does it do MTCountdown lets you display a count down timer to a certain date, or a time since counter (MTCountup), i.e. you can countdown to your next birthday or count up from the day you were born… Here are some samples,… Continue reading MTCountdown (MTCountup) plugins added
Todo list
Done: Added a blog list -Redid the frontpage -Added recently posted to the frontpage (and V2 blogs now show up) Still to do and Ideas: -Universal cookie for weblogs.us, enter info at one of our blogs, never have to again at any other weblogs.us blog… Huh, this could be an “internet wide” cookie too… -Convert… Continue reading Todo list
Why we don’t use UTF-8 on Movable Type
(1) Date encoding problems (2) MT’s non-ascii XML-RPC support is possibly all broken (has this been fixed?) Original mention of non-ascii XML-RPC problems. (3) I think our original MT database corruption issues were related to invalid dates, possibly a result of using Zempt on a Movable Type setup with Berkley DB file system and UTF-8… Continue reading Why we don’t use UTF-8 on Movable Type
Expandable Comments in Movable Type
This is an excerpt from a forum post that Kev made, it gives expandable comment capability to MT! Author: CanuckKev Subject: Collapsable Comments/Extended Entry Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:59 pm (GMT 0) Topic Replies: 0 I tried to make this a blog post, but it really screwed up the formating, so I decided to… Continue reading Expandable Comments in Movable Type
Online class: Blogging Basics with Movable Type
I ran across Kynn’s new online class her’s teaching: Blogging Basics with Movable Type. The course oultine looks good and I’m excited to see what his students come up with. Anyone looking for solid blogging tips should look into the course 🙂