January 29, 2003

Neat MT hack

Damn, it works. This could come in handy. Via the Passionate Ailurophile.

Further plans for the blog: smilies for comments, formatting buttons for comments (maybe), show/hide inline comments (maybe), show/hide extended blog entries, skins to change the blog look. Real Soon Now.

Update: now you can see the comments on the same page as the entries (click on "display the quatloos" below each entry), do the same with extended entries, and there are simplified formatting links for links, italics, and bolding in the comments box. (Just follow the directions -- this does not work in Mozilla, by the way, and I'm not so sure about any other browser than IE.)

All these scripts except the first one are from Scriptygoddess.

Posted by Andrea Harris at January 29, 2003 06:48 PM
Comments

The display comments thingie is awesome!

I want one! (and a flying carpet, but I'll settle for the display thing [g])

Posted by: Ith at January 29, 2003 at 10:09 PM

If you aren't afraid of fooling with your templates they aren't too hard to implement. I put the link to the source of most of these scripts up.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 29, 2003 at 10:27 PM

Now this is cool.

Posted by: Paul at January 29, 2003 at 10:29 PM

BTW, they'll be releasing MT 2.6 sometime in the near future with the Sanitize plug-in built right into the program.

Posted by: Paul at January 29, 2003 at 11:09 PM

Cool! (I mean -- groan! another update! must do the traditional grousing.) My next project is enabling smilies the way some other comments software has. Say, doesn't the Sgt. Stryker site do that? Tell, tell...

Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 29, 2003 at 11:13 PM

Comment formatting is keen. I don't know why more people don't do it.

Posted by: *** Dave at January 29, 2003 at 11:17 PM

The smilie deal I got from here

The instructions are fairly easy to follow. The only difficult part is installing MTMacros, but I don't think you'll have much trouble with that. I think once I had my smilies list formatted, it took me all of 15 minutes to implement it.

The only problem is, unlike Bulletin Board software, you can't just type in ":)" and have it automatically convert into a smilie when the page displays. I've yet to find an MT hack that does that.

I was waiting to see if some enterprising soul figured out how to make smilies in my comments, but it looks like I'm going to have to put a link with the instructions.

Posted by: Paul at January 29, 2003 at 11:28 PM

Cool! Thanks!

Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 29, 2003 at 11:58 PM

OK, so what's the difference in clicking "display the comments" and clicking the link to the post archive. I bet the latter is dependent on your archival options. Since you've got individual archives, they work the same, near as I can tell. Anyway, I get the same screen with each click on your blog. What am I missing? I wanna feel cool, too.

Posted by: Scott Chaffin at January 30, 2003 at 10:55 AM

Well, my roommate went nuts last night, and now we have "show comments" all over the darn place! Thanks for the link.

Posted by: Ith at January 30, 2003 at 11:37 AM

Scott -- click the link below the post on the main page that says "display the quatloos." (Then go to the bottom of the displayed list of comments and click "hide the quatloos" to get rid of the comment list.) I only have this set up on the main page of the blog. I could add it to the archive pages too but that's too many extras IMHO. I just felt like having it so I wouldn't have to open a comment box each time I wanted to see my comments.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 30, 2003 at 12:07 PM

Clearly, I am severely uncool, and your blog can sense that. I get no "hide" clicky-linky. Wassupwiddat? Nevermind -- I'll just use the old-fogey BACK command, since it's built into my wireless 9-button mouse these days...

Posted by: Scott at January 31, 2003 at 12:51 AM

Really? How odd... it's a javascript that does this, and maybe it just doesn't like your computer, or browser, or something. If you ask me, every single computer on earth has its own individual quirk, kind of like cats. What system, browser, resolution setting etc are you using? Do you have some kind of popup ad blocker that messes with javascript?

PS: I'm working on setting up a "printer friendly" version of the blog that won't have any fancy bells and whistles on it, as well as a pda version like I had for the other site. So maybe that will be better.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 31, 2003 at 01:04 AM