Save the HREFs

While con­tin­u­ing my incre­men­tal live updat­ing of this blog, I finally got around to try­ing to do some­thing about the highly annoy­ing REFC delim­iter val­i­da­tion errors that have been bug­ging me since I started with MT. It’s all about char­ac­ter escap­ing — no sur­prises there — but for some rea­son MT doesn’t encode URIs when sav­ing posts. SafeHref to the res­cue! A nifty con­tainer tag, where you just spec­ify that you wants your urls “safe” — and that’s it. A few tweaks here and there around the site and it all val­i­dates. No, really. I even did a few bad hacks to the google­hits and MTre­f­er­ers scripts sup­plied by code mas­ter Dalager, mak­ing the links pass the val­ida­tor as hot but­ter. Now I’m afraid to get caught by the PHP police, though… Still need to check my markup for mean­ing but once I fin­ish, I’ll try to look into the var­i­ous plu­g­ins for MT and list the ones I find par­tic­u­lar use­ful. Some good stuff out there, which ones can’t you live without?