Blog redesign, episode 8

More changes. I’ve put in the Word­Count plu­gin to dis­play a word count on the date based archive pages. Upload the plu­gin, use the new tag. That’s it.

The com­ments got an over­haul as well. Using an updated ver­sion of Sim­pleCom­ments I’m now dis­play­ing the com­ment num­ber for eas­ier ref­er­ence (<MTSimpleCommentNumber>) and put in code to estab­lish whether a com­ment is odd or even (<MTSim­pleCom­men­tOdd> returns 1 or 0 respec­tively) — maybe I’ll need that later when I get to the design part.

Added live pre­view too; found the lit­tle scripts at Cyn­ics dot Info — I plan on tak­ing a look at cre­ati­ma­tion later in order to get Tex­tile to work in the live preview.

The look of the blog is slowly get­ting more and more clut­tered with var­i­ous fea­ture place­hold­ers scat­tered all over. Hope to clean up soon. For now, a lot of the fea­tures only get imple­mented on the main blog, leav­ing the side­blog and the cam­blog work­ing — and unclut­tered. Once I get going on the markup and the graphic design, I bet I’ll change stuff anyway.

But while on the sub­ject on com­ments: I haven’t got­ten around to play­ing with Type­Key yet and I’m not even sure I’ll use it. But MT-Blacklist seems to be a bit on the aggres­sive side; so far Jonas and Jes­per have had to email com­ments get­ting blocked with a “ques­tion­able con­tent” error message…which isn’t that great. I have no prob­lems post­ing com­ments, but if you have a minute, please try and leave a com­ment. I need com­ments and track­backs with and with­out html, links etc. I’ve already looked into the con­fig­u­ra­tion setup but haven’t found the bit mess­ing with my comments.

As the dufus I am, of course I didn’t really think about what to do if you can’t post com­ments at all… “If your phone doesn’t work, try call­ing the phone com­pany”. Duh. So: If you’re met by some stu­pid error mes­sage keep­ing you from post­ing, please mail me at anders (at) pollas.dk. Your help is greatly appreciated!