http://dev.powerblogs.com/ A Blog about the development of the PowerBlogs.Com software and services. en-us 2005-12-17T23:12+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1134860546.shtml Google has created a way to fight comment spam. It involves adding rel="nofollow" to all of the links in comments, trackbacks, readership reports, etc. I've updated the Powerblogs software to... Chris 2005-12-17T23:12+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1133644762.shtml The order that saved-for-later posts display in on the page for choosing them now groups the posts scheduled for publishing first, and orders them by date. This was suggested by the... Chris 2005-12-03T21:12+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1133423320.shtml There is now a convenient interface (in the "Edit a Saved Post" page) for rescheduling posts which have been scheduled to be published. It uses AJAX, so it requires Firefox 1.0.7,... Chris 2005-12-01T07:12+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1132162674.shtml I just pushed some code cleanups live. In a few places that was streamlining the code, but mostly that means that more templates take advantage of caching. Both of these should... Chris 2005-11-16T17:11+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1132162495.shtml The Theme tab has been cleaned up some as there is now one script to edit the four stylesheets. It's also been improved to be a bit easier during multiple edits.... Chris 2005-11-16T17:11+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1132089688.shtml One of our servers has lately been the victim of a massive amount of trackback spamming. This has been causing the system to be very slow and even brought down the... Chris 2005-11-15T21:11+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1131694407.shtml So, for whatever reason, WordPress doesn't support the industry standard RDF for trackback auto-discovery. Instead, it uses a special link tag (which it can get away with because WordPress permalinks must... Chris 2005-11-11T07:11+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1123544425.shtml When you edit the comments policies text, all open comment pages automatically get rewritten to reflect the changes.... Chris 2005-08-08T23:08+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1123197068.shtml Ok, I've finally finished the performance overhall of the readership reports. The reports are now being generated every 4 hours throughout the day, plus a few (minor) improvements.... Chris 2005-08-04T23:08+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1120685857.shtml (I have to apologize for being pretty behind in updating this blog, which I have been for a few months. Development has been going on at a fairly steady pace, I've... Chris 2005-07-06T21:07+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1111863293.shtml 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... Chris 2005-03-26T18:03+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1111709225.shtml 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... Chris 2005-03-25T00:03+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1111045247.shtml The Create Custom Theme utility can now take an image for the header (it can be either a background graphic or a title graphic).... Chris 2005-03-17T07:03+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1108849633.shtml Our weekly archives are now true weekly archives, i.e. the run from sunday through saturday, and will span months or years as necessary to achieve that.... Chris 2005-02-19T21:02+00:00 http://dev.powerblogs.com/posts/1108567849.shtml The "Moderate Recent Comments" page now groups unmoderated comments first by post, then by date. This should make the moderation process smoother and easier. Thanks to Dean Esmay for the... Chris 2005-02-16T15:02+00:00