2005-12-21

BlogThis! with my updated post tagger helper

After having kindly been slipped a slew of bug reports and feature requests by Oskar, I have now done some fairly substantial upgrades and bug fixes to my Blogger publish helper.

First and foremost, it now supports tagging things when you use the BlogThis! button in the Blogger navbar. (It does not do any fancy things on the publish page, though.) It took ages getting it to work, but it was something of a learning experience too.

If I got everything right this time, those of you who have previously been pestered with popup prompts asking you what tags you want on all your posts should hopefully be relieved of that from now on.

In other related news, it now appends the linked URL, when available, to the Del.icio.us text field that previously only held the post time.

While at it, I also incorporated Jasper's recent upgrade to support compose mode too.

Reinstall the most recent version of it and have a go.
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4 comments:

  1. Oskar AustegardThu Dec 22, 10:20:00 AM PST

    Johan, good effort, but...
    For some reason my blog-posts tags don't end up on del.icio.us:

    E.g.
    http://austegard.blogspot.com/2005/12/blogthis-with-tags.html
    vs.
    http://del.icio.us/austegard/mo.notono.us

    I wasn't asked for my delicious username this time - is it possibly trying to post to the non-existing mo.notono.us account rather than to austegard?

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  2. Johan SundströmThu Dec 22, 10:34:00 AM PST

    The BlogThis! part of it really isn't quite feature complete yet; there is no fully automated part that logs in to Del.icio.us to store your post there, it is presently just a link that gets added to the result page when using the normal Blogger publish wizard. If you republish a post of yours again, does the link appear on the "Publishing complete" page?

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  3. AJSat Dec 24, 11:10:00 AM PST

    Thanks for the update.

    On a slightly related topic, I was wondering if you've posted about how to make author comments appear on a differently colored background (as yours do here). I looked around your blog but didn't immediately find that hack...would definitely go for it if it's available.

    Keep up the good work.

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  4. Johan SundströmSat Dec 24, 08:42:00 PM PST

    Not yet, no, unless a rather technical hint counts. A post on it will most likely appear eventually, though.

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Limited HTML (such as <b>, <i>, <a>) is supported. (All comments are moderated by me amd rel=nofollow gets added to links -- to deter and weed out monetized spam.)

I would prefer not to have to do this as much as you do. Comments straying too far off the post topic often lost due to attention dilution.

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