Ones and Zeros: Plug-ins, hacks, and production code

Plug-ins, hacks, and production code

November 14, 2003

Well, because I agreed to help Kuff set up MT-Blacklist, MySQL and MovableTyle 2.64, I just finished a flurry of behind-the-scenes MT hacks and changes. The fruits of these efforts will become more apparent later, but MT should be faster, stronger, better than before...

Added Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist A content-based mt-spam prophylactic.
Added Stephen Rhia's Avoid Duplicate Comments hack to MT-Blacklist. No more comment dups! Woo
Added Stephen Rhia's Avoid Duplicate Trackbacks hack to MT-Blacklist. No more trackback dups! Woo
Added Brenna Koch's MTCommentsLeaders plugin
Added David Raynes' MTOtherBlog plugin
Added Adam Kalsey's SimpleComments plugin. This threads comments and trackbacks
Added Adam Kalsey's MTWordCount plugin
Added David Raynes' MTRandomEntries plugin
Modified MTWordCount to provide new word count properties.
Added MT-Timer to allow me to diagnose slowness in rebuilds.
Used MySQL Fu to eliminate existing duplicate comments.
removed all MT Includes from my templates to speed up rebuilds.

Wrote a little JavaScript to display an Edit Entry link to the author only:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<!--
var MyAuthor = '<$MTEntryAuthor$>';
var ThisUser = getCookie("mtcmtauth");

if ((MyAuthor.indexOf(ThisUser) != -1) && ThisUser != '')
{
document.write(' <a href="<$MTCGIPath$>mt.cgi?__mode
=view&_type=entry&id=<$MTEntryID$>&blog_id=<
$MTBlogID$>">(Edit)</a>');
};
//-->
</script>

Added Phil Ringdala's Trackback Rebuild Hack

To Do...

Rebuild my page without tables
Write a script to close comments after 'x' days. Try to make it flexible about categories and blogs and durations
Write a script to automatically dump the database and compress and archive the dumps.
Figure out photo rotator for Pete, especially if it can be done dynamically.

NP:Gaudete from the album "Strange Charm" by Lager Rhythms

.:Posted by Michael on November 14, 2003 11:19 AM:.

Getting in over my head...

Having added a bunch of code changes, I am considering how I can improve trackbacks. My first thought is that......

.:Posted to Ones and Zeros on Nov 15, 2003 1:52 PM:.

Nice. I'll have to try some of those. Just got around to upgrading to 2.64, myself. (Though I see you're on 2.63 still.)

Really just commenting to up myself in the comment ranks... :)

.:Posted by ChuckEye ( total) on November 17, 2003 1:44 AM:.

A little hacking around

I finally got around to adding MT-Search, a nice consequence of upgrading to Movable Type version 2.64 and converting my......

.:Posted to Off the Kuff on Nov 24, 2003 8:35 PM:.

Speed

The server seems to be having a few problems speed-wise at the moment, so this means that the comments scripts......

.:Posted to Ed's Blog on Mar 15, 2004 11:23 AM:.

Test Entry

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.:Posted to The All-New All-Different Howling Curmudgeons on Apr 24, 2004 10:43 PM:.