Tue, 27 Feb 2007
Blog software update
I finally got around to adding some features to this here blog:
- Paged display—yep, now you only get ten entries displayed at a time rather than 60+. Faster load time, less bandwidth, everyone's a winner! Functionality implemented thanks to the wbgpager PyBlosxom pager plugin.
- Category list—thanks to the
pycategoriesplugin from the PyBlosxom contrib plugins pack the right-hand sidebar now actually lists the entry categories. I don't overly like the default display but as I'm thinking of switching to a tags-based approach anyway I'm not going to look into changing the layout at present. - Tags—Speaking of tags... I used this "sorted" version of Joe Topjian's
tagplugin to implement tag functionality—roll on 2004, or something. I should go back and tag my earlier posts, but we'll see if that actually happens—if I do so I'll probably move the categories over to tags and remove the categories. I should also display a tag cloud (or as I like to call it: a "list") but we'll leave that for later too. - Monthly archive links—the right-hand sidebar now also lists direct links to archives for each of the months in which I've posted entries. (I wonder if this year will see entries in more than half the months? :-)) Which reminds me, still on my blog's to-do list is importing my entries from Advogato. Unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Oh, I don't think I mentioned when I was putting this blog together originally that I *cough*stole*cough* the style-sheet from Andrew J Todd of halfcooked.com. I've meant to add an attribution to the source which I have now done and have finally emailed to check my use is okay with him. Such terrible netiquette on my behalf, just shameful. [Update: Andy replied and apparently the theme is now available from the MainlyGreen page of the PyBlosxom flavour repository.]
I wasn't planning on doing all this when I started tonight, but I guess it's done now. :-)
Oh, yes, and thanks to all the coders who made this new functionality possible.
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