Here’s a new plugin for you all here to play with! {lastposts} return the most recent posts on your blog! It has one parameter, posts, which is an integer between 1 and 20 to return that number of posts. Example: {lastposts posts=’20’} {if $lastposts != ”} <br /><b>Most Recent Posts</b><br […]

Last week I revived my interest in integrating WordPress and Smarty again. I tested the latest release and I’m very impressed by the wealth of options and configurability! I want to use it myself! To that end I need to get Smarty in there. I wrote a script that fetches […]

I finally got around to profiling this site and came up with some astounding conclusions – it takes almost a second to fetch each post on this blog! Therefore I’ve started to catch blog posts seperately from the main index page. In simple testing I’ve already noticed a significant speed-up […]

Regular visitors to this site will have noticed that this blog and others on the server take an inordinate amount of time to display sometimes. Basically, this machine is unfortunately under-powered but we’re working on making the best of use of the available hardware with some changes to MySQL and […]

I’ve just added a new plugin to the site that lists the most popular posts on your blog. The command is {popularposts} which creates an array, $pposts, containing the list of posts. Unfortunately it’ll only work if you use the newer $blogid/archives/p/1/ type url, not the old $blogid/archives/m/200407/#1 Thank you […]

I’ve added code to the referer checking to check for a few common bots: “http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp” “http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html” “http://www.blogdigger.com/” “http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm” “Feedster, LLC.” “http://www.breakingblogs.com/timbo_bot.html” “fastbuzz.com” “http://www.pubsub.com/” “http://www.bloglines.com” “http://www.drupal.org/” “Ask Jeeves/Teoma” “ia_archiver” “http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/” There are others but these showed up in the access logs of the last few minutes! Sorry guys, your referer lists […]

Although it’s a minor update, the latest release of b2++ should be installed by everyone running b2++. I have provided a very simple upgrade package as well with only the changed files so you’ve no excuse not to upgrade! Check the download page for links! Changes: Referer display of Google […]

Here’s another minor b2++ update. I added the blog post titles to permalinks, The title isn’t used to find the actual post, it’s simply there for search engines to find and index. It should help somewhat in your rankings if you select your post titles carefully!

What with the proliferation of photoblogs around the Internet I thought we should get in on the act! Features: Displays one image, with optional surrounding html code. If no image is available selects a previous image at random. Only certain images will be used. No surprises! What to do: Add […]

Minor b2++ update here but it’s a good one for those of you with lots of content. b2 always had a “Previous Page/Next Page” function but I never enabled it in b2++. This morning I fixed that so to activate it do the following: Go into the Options page and […]