Tinkering
2005-10-05
Must get around to looking at how this thing works.
(Lengthy 'TODO:' style post follows, hence pre-emptive use of 'space-wasting prevention' measures).
Don't like the way the 'intelligent' links for those who leave comments suggest that people without links are based here, and the titles don't show the difference between a real link and a mailto: one.
Been collecting referrer data, but not going to bother displaying any of it unless I can get it to cut it down to which domains referred, rather than worrying about which pages. Besides which all referrals from Danzor are called 'Redirecting...' because of his MT Google-rank anti-spam (or perhaps that's anit-(Google-rank-spam), or something).
Might put something like that in myself, although the most common plugin for it assumes I don't have access to httpd.conf, and so I would want to edit that and make it more efficient...
Still waiting to put in smilies.
Got a lovely line-break processing plugin, but since it can't be disabled on a per-blog basis, it wrecks my blogroll and linkroll.
And what's going on with having only one link in the linkroll? The objective need assessing: either I'm going to keep a standing set of links (in which case I should go and find some) for all time, or a rolling list of links and comments like Danzor's, and Gordon's miniblog.
Some of that stuff is easy and straightforward, and I should just get on and do it.
Other parts involve writing better versions of existing plugins, or basing new ones on parts of old, and without a great deal of research that I can't face right now, simply isn't gong to happen. Even hacking the SEO-safe links plugin to use server directives rather than meta-based redirection should involve me looking closely at what it does and which bits to change, rather than just adding directives to my config and hoping...
And I never really finished reskinning, as those of you who've seen a clean installation of Nucleus CMS will see. Let's face it, I just changed the colour of the title box, and stopped it wasting quite so much space...
(Lengthy 'TODO:' style post follows, hence pre-emptive use of 'space-wasting prevention' measures).
Don't like the way the 'intelligent' links for those who leave comments suggest that people without links are based here, and the titles don't show the difference between a real link and a mailto: one.
Been collecting referrer data, but not going to bother displaying any of it unless I can get it to cut it down to which domains referred, rather than worrying about which pages. Besides which all referrals from Danzor are called 'Redirecting...' because of his MT Google-rank anti-spam (or perhaps that's anit-(Google-rank-spam), or something).
Might put something like that in myself, although the most common plugin for it assumes I don't have access to httpd.conf, and so I would want to edit that and make it more efficient...
Still waiting to put in smilies.
Got a lovely line-break processing plugin, but since it can't be disabled on a per-blog basis, it wrecks my blogroll and linkroll.
And what's going on with having only one link in the linkroll? The objective need assessing: either I'm going to keep a standing set of links (in which case I should go and find some) for all time, or a rolling list of links and comments like Danzor's, and Gordon's miniblog.
Some of that stuff is easy and straightforward, and I should just get on and do it.
Other parts involve writing better versions of existing plugins, or basing new ones on parts of old, and without a great deal of research that I can't face right now, simply isn't gong to happen. Even hacking the SEO-safe links plugin to use server directives rather than meta-based redirection should involve me looking closely at what it does and which bits to change, rather than just adding directives to my config and hoping...
And I never really finished reskinning, as those of you who've seen a clean installation of Nucleus CMS will see. Let's face it, I just changed the colour of the title box, and stopped it wasting quite so much space...
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