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Unwakeable 1.2 will be released shortly after January 1, 2007. I haven’t had much time the last two weeks to do much work on it. I could release it now, but I haven’t written the php to convert the old K2 options over to the new Unwakeable-specific options.
Some changes in 1.2 will include displaying post ratings, post views, and Digg Integrator on pages instead of only on posts. I’ve also added some css for displaying a changelog like the one I have on the Unwakeable page. Also, I need to test out Gregarious and get support for that plugin built in, if there’s any need to build support for it at all. Gregarious replaces Digg This Reloaded, it also makes use of the new Digg API.
I’ve been incredibly busy at work the last two weeks, we’ve migrated from Access to Microsoft SQL Server. It’s so much nicer to work with. Also, Ashley and I are going to Wisconsin on Friday to visit my dad and step-mom. I’m really hoping nothing goes wrong at work while I’m away. I can work remotely no problem, but I don’t know if I’ll have internet access for the entire week I’m gone. Luckily we’ve got some pretty good contacts that are willing to help out in my absence. They’re all people who’ve proven very trustworthy over the past year.
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Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have all agreed on a standard specification for sitemap files. Information about the new standard can be found over at sitemaps.org. If you’re not sure what a sitemap is, sitemaps.org has a nice explanation:
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
Fortunately for me, there’s really nothing I have to do to take advantage of this new spec. I’ve had a sitemap file for quite a while, and it gets updated dynamically with every new post I make. My sitemap xml file is quite large.
Joseph Scott brings up an important aspect of this new spec, pinging. Pinging basically means that when you make an update to your blog or site, you can ping Google/Yahoo/MSN to let them know you’ve made an update. That way they can crawl your site sooner to index your new content. Pretty neat.
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Just a few minutes ago, I saw 20,000 unique visitors here at longren.org. I started tracking about one year ago when I first started using Mint.
I thought it’d be 2+ years before I saw 20,000 unique visitors, guess I was way off. I never anticipated releasing a theme for WordPress or joining some of the blogging communities I’m a member of. Yay for 20,000! I’ll be at 40,000 uniques by early May, hopefully.
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I’ve updated my Unwakeable WordPress theme to version 1.1. I got in touch with Kirk to see if I could use some CSS from his Sawchuk scheme for K2. Much to my pleasure, he was happy to let me borrow from Sawchuk, so that’s what I did.
I took the following CSS classes from Sawchuk and implemented them in Unwakeable: download, code, alert, construction, and other. You can see Kirks test style post here for a taste of what each of these classes does, or you can just take a look below. I had modify some of the classes a little bit. I sometimes post small one-liner pieces of code that didn’t display very well without some changes to Kirk’s CSS. I basically just changed some margins around to make the code icon appear correctly, whether it’s in a one-line or multi-line piece of code.
Just for kicks, you can see all the different classes I’ve included in Unwakeable 1.1 below.
p class=”download”
Download Unwakeable 1.1
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I’ve been using the Digg Integrator plugin for easy Digging of my posts. The Digg Integrator plugin has had it’s share of problems lately, mostly due to changes the folks at Digg have implemented. WildBil has managed to fix the plugin up quite nicely though, I haven’t been having any issues with the newest version.
If you’re having problems with the Digg Integrator plugin, you might wanna check out the Digg This Reloaded plugin. It’s got a bunch of nice features similar to features found in the Digg Integrator plugin. Looks like a very promising plugin, I am going to install it and give it a try sometime this week.
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The Undersigned is running another blog survey. The first survey didn’t go over so well, with only 39 people participating. I wasn’t one of those 39. I was unaware of the survey until earlier this morning.
So far in the second survey, 111 bloggers have participated. The second survey has been going on since October 18th, so two days now. They’ve added a live results page for this second survey also. Some pretty interesting results so far. There’s lots of new bloggers, a majority of those who’ve taken the survey started blogging this year, in 2006.
One thing that surprised me was the number of people hosting their blog by themselves versus using a free blogging service such as wordpress.com. 91% of those surveyed are hosting their blog themselves. I expected there would be more people using free blogging services.
If you’re a blogger, and have a few seconds, go fill out the survey.
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