linkbloggy
I’m not too happy with how the del.icio.us links work on the site. I’d like to post each one as they happen and not as a daily script I have to manually set. For a long time, I had a sideblog/linkblog/etc/whatever running off of it’s own Movable Type blog. When I moved to WordPress, I lost that ability. I’m almost of the mindset to not have those links displayed how they are currently and go back to a sideblog-type layout. Not sure if I want to use one single Movable Type weblog or even a Blogger account for something like this. I know WordPress has this ability, but I don’t have the time for some serious Kung-PHP-Foo to get it working.
So, I might actually setup that third column to be a sideblog instead of the large ads…
later
I tried setting up a simple blog on Blogger, but what they don’t tell you is that you can remove all of the styling and format a blank page in blogger tags, but they’ll still add DIVs and other stuff to your code. So I’m going to try just a Movable Type blog for what I want to do. Unfortunately, I still remember way more about Movable Type than I’ve ever learned about WordPress. However, I’m not moving anywhere.
even later
I even thought about coding my own little linkblog system, I have some sample php code and mysql backend that I had tinkered with when I had a little more time on my hands. But if I’m gonna do something like that, why not just have WordPress do it? I just want a title, url, pithy commentary and via fields, nothing more or less. No comments, no trackbacks or pings or archives or whatever. Just something simple. I might still do it, but that will take more time that I’d like.
much later
I tried a few WordPress ways of doing this and failed, so I used a Movable Type blog and had it working in 10 minutes. Much less work and less bullshit. aarg. I’m beginning to think that WordPress isn’t ready for what I’d like to throw at it.
SO anyways……The new linkblog….aka the LinkBloggy-Blog, is on the far right of the page. The rss/atom feeds are in place at the main lbb page and will be rolled more into the site.
June 28th, 2005 at 7:06 pm
Miike, you might want to take a look at Scuttle. It’s pretty much a local version of del.icio.us — I use it in conjunction with a chunk of PHP that talks to MagpieRSS to suck in the links on my sidebar.
I too have tried several weblog style things to do this and never liked being tied to a particular vendor — this is a little more portable and will work the same with Textpattern, WordPress, MT or any thing else. Posting is as simple as launching a bookmarklet from the browser toolbar and it spits out a variety of RSS feeds (tag, user, all, etc.)
You can see the freestanding version here.
Alternatively, if you throw MagpieRSS up someplace it’s trivial to use the same chunk of scripting to pull in your del.icio.us RSS feeds the same way. I won’t even try and paste code in here, but drop me a line if you want the script. It’s only about twenty lines and works fine embedded.
June 29th, 2005 at 5:06 pm
I guess I want the easy way out. One script one type of program, but it’s not looking that way. Actually I’m almost of the mindset to just ditch WordPress anyway, I’m in a pissy mood today so that’s not really an answer. But I hate that you have to go through php acrobatics to get something as simple as a linkblog on a site.
With Movable Type, it was a matter of scripting this out with tags…no code, but WP’s codex wiki is do disjointed that I’m almost ready to stop from the start, even if they probably have the best answer. You know, open source is great if you have a good program and good support and good documentation, but it’s shite and unfortunately I’ve never had as many crap attitudes as I had in a WP forum. At least in the Mt forum everyone was fairly nice.
I’ve been out of Movable Type for almost a year and this has me really thinking about going back. It’s very flexable for someone like me who’s really just wanting to have a nice weblog without a lot of fuss. Sure WP takes 5 minutes to install, but it takes double that if you want to change a template.
Like I said, I’m in a pissy mood, so these ideas might change.
June 30th, 2005 at 10:06 am
I know what you mean about WP — I’ve never really been able to get my head around it. There is just too much embedded PHP in the templates and I find the theme system and whole concept of ‘the loop’ absurd.
I see why you went with MT, if you already have it installed it’s trivial to create a new weblog. I’m curious, have you played with Textpattern much? The 1.x CVS versions are killer — the section management has been redone to get rid of the .htaccess and section text file. It’s all autommatic now and when it comes to managing an entire site I find it the best of the bunch.
I share your frustration. Once the vovelty of all these wonderful tools wheres off and after a few years of fiddling with every shiny new thing to come down the pike I’ve reached the point where I just want it to work. I don’t want to spend hours writing and debugging PHP to spit a few links out on a weblog.
July 5th, 2005 at 8:07 am
I messed around with Textpattern a while back, when I was trying to decide what I wanted to use if I stopped using Movable Type. I didn’t like parts of it and for one reason or another, used WordPress instead. I’ll give it another shot, but I’m seriously thinking about moving back to Movable Type. In fact, one of my friends is starting another blog and we’re going to use Movable Type for it instead.