Hi Prit,
I just like to suggest adding an edit comment function (not just remove)
It would be helpful to correct mistakes and moderate replies
Any date for the next release ?
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Prit
PritloggerThanks John. This is definitely a good idea. I will add it to my list.
I have been experimenting with some template systems. It is fun to experiment. I am glad you asked for a date. I was relaxing away a little bit, and was also traveling. Hopefully, we can have an alpha in two weeks from now.
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john
MemberThanks Prit,
a comment pre approval function would be a nice addition too :)
Re. templates: with the current script, it doesn't take too much work to move things around and tune css to individual preferences. Moving to a template system will probably take a lot of rework with benefits not being proportional. Personally, I plan to keep with a single design and refine it over time
Any thoughts about trackback links ?
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Prit
PritloggerI will note down the suggestion about comment approval. Not sure if I can get it in for the next release.
If there is a template system for Pritlog, I want it to be very simple too. Have not decided the best approach as yet.
Trackback links - Can you explain what it is and how it can be implemented? I usually have not used the track back links on blogs I visit. I do know that it might be useful for tracking purposes, but it should not make any difference for search engines.
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john
MemberPrit,
1. Following is my understanding about trackback links:
- let's say you post in your blog, and someone in another blog posts commenting about what you said.
- a trackback link would be placed at the end of your post to reference the post on the other blog talking about yours
- it seems a kind of link exchange, and a way to interconnect posts that talk about other posts.
- from my readings, trackback links could be generated automatically if blogs share the same platform and option is available.
2. I the case of pritlog a way to implement the concept could be:
- add a checkbox to the comment form, that allows other bloggers to enter a link to the post were they talked about yours, and click the option to indicate that they are submitting a trackback link.
- on submit, a function could check if a link to your site realy exists on their blog, and in return generate the trackback link at the end of your post (I've experimented with a very good link exchange script a few months ago, that does exactly that)
3. In regards to your comment "I do know that it might be useful for tracking purposes, but it should not make any difference for search engines" I don't agree:
- It seems to me that trackback links could really boost your traffic if you are lucky enough to write good posts that get commented in some well known blogs.
- in regards to search engines, trackback links on the other blogs would be seen as external links pointing to your blog, thus having potential to increase pagerank depending on their own pagerank.
- maybe a configuration option could be added to restrict which blogs are allowed to request a trackback link.
Conclusions: I know the explanation sounds somewhat confusing :)
I've not used trackback links either, but now that I learned a bit more about them I wanted to bring up the subject for your own evaluation.Besides the technical implementation, let me know your thoughts..
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Prit
PritloggerThanks John for the explanation. It helped.
Personally, I feel, this may not be required for Pritlog at this moment.
From my understanding, a track back can help your blog site to know who has linked to yours, but it should not make any difference for search engines as they already know who is linked from where.
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john
MemberOk Prit.
I think that with Pritlog I found a very nice blog platform to experiment with, and whose code I'm currently very familiar with, to the point that I already lost count about the number of modifications I did.
The last one, added some delimiters that allow me to "pick" some sound sentence in a post, and use it as part of the header meta description.
My objective is to make every post as unique and optimized for some search phrases as possible.
The drawback is that when you release the new version, I'll have to weight if the improvements are worth the work required to adapt all my changes to the new version.
I guess this will be specially true if you move to a template system.Posted 3 years ago # -
Well, I welcome the templating system so long as it does not bloat the pritlog. As for tracking linkbacks maybe that should be another configuration checkbox that one can enable/disable in the admin interface. Hope you had a good road trip prit!
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Prit
PritloggerHi Ken .. I am still experimenting with a simple templating system and trying to keep Pritlog small. For linkbacks, we may need additional XML-RPC stuff and I did not want to add this right now to Pritlog because it does not add much value except to notify the blog author of others linking to their post.
For the trip, I actually flew to the Oklahoma City and moved around from there. It was good because I had never been in this part. Travelling from California, I was surprised to see just plain empty land in many places. I liked the laid back life style though.
John .. I understand how any changes (especially templating system) will impact you as you have made many modifications to your version. Once the alpha is out, we can go over the features and see which ones you may/may not want.
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John or Prit have either of you considered a function/plugin that adds a new url to an xml sitemap ? http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/
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Prit
PritloggerHi Ken .. I have not given much thought about this yet. Since we know every link we have, it should be possible to create the sitemap. For now, there may be some free sitemap generators available to create them for the blog site.
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Prit
PritloggerAfter playing around with a simple templating method, here is a test blog: (user:admin, pass: password)
http://hardkap.net/pritlabs/sulog1You can login and go to admin, advanced and select one of the themes available.
Not much testing has been done.
The total size now is 319KB.
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Well, I thought I'd mention it knowing it's not top priority and yes there are some sitemap generators but they tend to pull all url's.. Anyhoo, some nice themes you have there. But, is this simply you modifying themes for pritlog or is this part of a theme engine ? I've looked and the few open source template engines seem to be massive in size so I could see why you might stick to porting themes.
I like the outdoorsy theme best but it takes a second on dial-up to load and I'd have to remove the pencil & flowers :) no problem I'd think. Well, maybe a new thread could be stickied on what's going on with the next version of pritlog, features to be implemented and what not..
Thanks prit!
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Prit
PritloggerKen/John ... I have added the post to Pritlog 0.81 thread and made it a sticky. We will continue our discussions there.
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