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Death Announcement Day

On another website, I saw a post which provoked commenters to consider the problems of blogging after death. I.e. what happens to the site, will it just fizzle out, or would the site notify the readers somehow? I made the following comment, which worries me, as I didn’t realise I’d given quite that much thought to [...]
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Recent Pings

I wanted to re-do my ‘recent pings’ code for trackbacks from other sites. This appears on my homepage. The criteria were: Only display pings from elsewhere (not internal pings) Display N pings. These required me to keep count of how many pings had been displayed, and not display internal pings. (I couldn’t just say ‘only show N pings’, and [...]
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Looking at Notifier Subscribers

I found myself becoming curious regarding the email notification feature, provided by MT-Notifier. Who was subscribing to receive comment notifications? Was it working at all? Therefore, I made use of the MTSQL plugin to find out. The first step was to create a subdirectory which I could use to hold the results, but which wasn’t visible to [...]
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Relative to Absolute – Desired Movabletype Plugin

It is good practice to use relative links for a variety of reasons, however, within RSS feeds this can cause problems, as the links are often interpreted as relative to the page where the RSS is viewed, not relative to the source page. For example, this link works fine when viewed on my site, it [...]
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Email Notification

I have finally got around to adding a feature which allows commenters to ask for followup comments to be sent to them by email. The commenter can opt whether or not to receive these emails, and before any emails are sent the address will need to be verified, this is to prevent the site being [...]
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