PowerBlogs.Com Development

Applicants for comment accounts will now automatically be notified via email when you approve their account (if you require account approval).

The trackbacks page is now controlled via an editable template. You can set the text above the trackbacks to anything that you want, or add any arbitrary HTML that you want to.

The theme creation utility now allows one to specify whether the header and sidebar border size, style, and color are for the entire border, or only the inner border. This should make life easier for creating a fairly common blog style.

It is now possible to require comments to get approval (individually) before they appear on posts. For those having problems with uncivil commenters, this is the ultimate weapon that guarantees you will win. The drawback, of course, is that you have to be active in frequently moderating new comments or it will slow the discussions down. Still, it could well be a good tool for encouraging only extremely thoughtful comments.

Thanks, Keith!

There are two new variables for the post templates: [$CommentsURL$] and [$CommentsCount$]. With these variables, you can create your own comments link that does pretty nearly anything that you want. Thanks for the idea, Andrew!

The reparenting code now checks to see if the new parent happens to be the old parent; in that case there's nothing to do, so there's no reason to regenerate any files and waste people's time.

Thanks for the suggestion, Antimedia!

The Manage Categories page now has two more options: rename a category and reparent a category.

The Create Custom Theme utility can now take an image for the header (it can be either a background graphic or a title graphic).

It's now possible to have the trackbacks appear in a popup, like comments.