PowerBlogs.Com Development

It is now possible to close the preview window once you open it.

Also, titles which are links no longer interfere with the quick editing of recent posts features.

I just pushed the latest code release onto the server. It features a number of upgrades:

1. The new page template code

2. a link to edit a just-published post

3. Update Recent Post (with popup) has been added to the post tab

4. Fixed the bug which messed up if links were in the title and one edited a published post.

5. some of the republishing code now shows incremental progress.

6. I refactored the republishing code to separate out republishing (archive pages) from regeneration (writing absolutely everything). This means that republishing will be faster.

7. The archive preferences page now properly determines whether anything needs building once you're done selecting it.

8. A new, improved interactive scheduler. This one guides the user and is optimized for the common uses of scheduled publishing (writing a bunch of posts on the weekend and spreading them out over the week, etc.)

Now to get working on category support.

If you want to use a technorati link tracker rather than the trackback implementation (and the technorati link tracker does have some definite advantages), this new variable in the post template will help, since you need to pass the URL of the post to the technorati script in a way that preserves the entire URL. It's more useful, admittedly, for those who have their permalinks directed to their weekly archive pages than for those who have their permalinks going to the individual archives pages (since the former will always include the # character which is special in a URL, whereas the latter won't). Still, it's here for whatever use you might find for it. Flexibility is always good. :-)

The archives features which I talked about earlier are now in effect.

I've added an Archives Preferences page to the Prefs tab, and this lets you pick which archives you want to generate. The two new types of archives are probably not for most blogs, or at least not for most traditional blogs.

You can choose to generate any or all of the types of archive pages, and whichever you choose to generate will be automatically linked in the sidebar in the html that fills in the [$Archives$] variable.

There was a stupid bug where if you logged in with the username not in all lower-case letters, it wouldn't pick up or set any of the user preferences. This bug is now squashed.