Haven’t had time to tinker with the new blog design for some time now, but upon yesterday’s discovery of Favatars, it was a pleasant surprise to find a Favicon MT-plugin over at Gemal’s today. I stumbled across the idea over a year ago, but never got it to work — plugins are just right for me. I installed it on the main blog, it works like a charm and caches the images. So now, if you leave a comment, your favicon gets grabbed and is displayed next to your name.
On a related note, I recently put in a captcha-test on the comment pages; I’ve been hit hard by comment spammers lately — they made a big mess and my host started sending worried emails. Not good. So far it seems to work — if you experience any problems when leaving comments, please let me know.
Sorry. I don’t have anything clever to say, just wanted to test the favicon plugin. By the way, what’s with the background-image?
Background image revenue model: http://pollas.dk/blog/archives/2004/12/14/back_to_my_roots_with_my_pocket_full_of_cash
You don’t seem to have a favicon?
No at the time, when I wrote the previous comment — some bitmap went wrong. Now I have, though. What goes for the background, I sure hope you get some sort of revenue, from this ;-)
Any explanation why it still doesn’t fetch my favicon? It works fine on my pages.
I haven’t read the fine print, but maybe you got ‘banned’, meaning that once the system figured out you didn’t have a favicon, it didn’t want to try again — and retries in a week or so? I don’t know, really ;-)
Just checked your site: What happens if you add the link rel=“shortcut icon” bit to your header? It should check the file in the root of your webserver first, but maybe you got some .htaccess going on?
I’ve tried writing www. infront of my URL this time, to see if it can bypass a possible cookie.
It should by default check for a favicon.ico in the root, to begin with, but if it isn’t so, then; theres the explanation ;-)
I’ll try adding a metatag, when I get outta here.
On a sidenote, I can tell you, that my info wasn’t remembered by your cookie, while visiting and commenting from home.
Aaand here we go. the www did the trick. By the way, what engine are you using, and do you have any idea if this plugin can be invoked in pMachine? It’s quite nifty, when you come to think of it :)
Still doesn’t remember my information (name, url). So this problem persists, even though I’ve moved from my XP/Firefox1 at home to Win2000/IE5 at work.
Nice1. I’ll have to investigate further how this thing works. The cookie-bit is probably caused by some fuckup while I’ve been experimenting with new features — I’ll fix that some day.
I found this thing yesterday, it does the same thing but is pure php: http://www.peej.co.uk/projects/favatars.html
Thanks, mate. I’ll give it a go, over at the boomerang later today, to see how it mucks up with my existing setup.