John (see, I’m not mad at him) has yet another weblog glossary started over at Microcontent News, but I’m afraid I didn’t get very far at all before I had to quibble. “Blogrolling Definition: (noun)”? How could blogrolling be a noun? That list of links over on the side? That’s a blogroll. Blogrolling is link […]
I do believe I’ve found my place in the University of Blogaria. Professor Salo of the Linguistics Department is working on a remake of Chaplain AKMA‘s Blogger template, and was in need of a roadmap to Blogger’s template tags, and I’m her dusty citation! I hereby nominate myself for the position of Battered Reference Book […]
Attention blogging toolmakers who want to do a smart convert breaks (Marcus, I think that’s you and only you): One more to add to the list of things where you shouldn’t convert line breaks to <br> or <br />: <pre> through </pre>
Before I started using Movable Type, I noticed that MT blogs seemed to ping weblogs.com without actually having any new content quite often. Once I started using it myself, I realized that the problem was that MT pings every time you save a post with status “Publish”, even if you only saved it because you […]
Not only is David Gagne’s Blogdata tutorial (explaining how to do a set of icons at the bottom of each post for links to categories, comments, mail this post, etc.) a cool trick that I’m going to have to steal, it also finally made the Movable Type template modules idea click for me. It’s really […]
I don’t remember anyone talking it up, but the feature that lets you link a template to a file, so that you can edit your template either in MT or in your favorite editor, completely rocks. Unlike realizing you misspelled completely while testing w.bloggar->mt.
Trying the blo.gs ping stuffed into MT.pm, where MT does its calls to MT::XMLRPC, instead. Perhaps it will be better behaved there. I would have liked to redo the whole ping subroutine, since it currently dies on the first error (say, pinging weblogs.com returns an error: you don’t get to ping anything else, including the […]
How to ping both weblogs.com and blo.gs when you publish from Movable Type (note that I’m assuming that you installed Movable Type in a directory named /mt/): Edit /mt/lib/MT/App/CMS.pm Find the line that reads $app->ping(Blog => $blog) or die $app->errstr; Insert a new line immediately after that, that reads: MT::XMLRPC->ping_update(‘weblogUpdates.ping’, $blog, ‘http://ping.blo.gs’) or die MT::XMLRPC->errstr; […]
Have I mentioned lately just how much I love using blo.gs to manage my blogroll? Both Shelley and Jonathon changed urls while switching to Movable Type this weekend. With ordinary links to them in my template, I would be digging through my html for the links, pasting in the new urls, and publishing/republishing my archives. […]
If you have PHP and posts from a year ago that you are willing to look at yourself, much less point other people toward, Bill has a PHP class to create a link to last year that’s yours for the asking.