Tuesday, December 2. 2008

What my blog software is doing for me

Posted by
Marcin Kasperski
in Technical

I've read quite a few of articles claiming that blog software is very simple and that one can quickly create his (or her) own blog in a day or two.

To verify this claim (well, building my own blog with - say - Django or Pylons is a tempting idea), I dumped notes of what my current blog software is doing for me.

Or, in text form:

Writing

  • Web interface

    • preview

    • tags

    • categories

    • date/time

    • WYSIWYG

  • via API

    • Metaweblog

    • Categories

    • Post as draft

    • Update post

    • Tags

    • Title and author

  • Modifications

    • preserved date

    • published articles

  • Products

    • Entries

    • Static pages

    • Category descriptions

    • Pictures

    • upload

    • galeries

    • flickr

  • Entry content

    • Title

    • Author

    • Date

    • Basic text

    • Extended text

    • Meta description (excerpt)

    • Meta keywords

    • Tags

    • Category

    • Draft status

    • Versioning

    • Pretty URL

    • permalink

    • UTF8

    • Special properties

    • Sticky

    • Invisible in index

    • Password protected

  • Categories

    • Hierarchy

    • Multilevel

    • Names and descriptions

    • Sidebar plugin

  • Tags

    • Assigning

    • from list

    • Autogeneration

    • Technorati

  • Formats

    • Markdown

    • HTML

    • fix HTML errors

    • Source code formatting

    • Nice to have

    • REST

    • Article table of contents

    • Image styling

    • Javascript image zoom

Administration

  • Multilanguage

    • Polish

    • English

    • Sidebar titles, standard headers, hints, ...

    • Admin interface

  • Performance

    • Cache

  • Layout

    • C-M-C

    • M-CC

    • Page title tuning

  • Helpers

    • Google Analytics

    • Google Adsense

    • AddThis

    • Amazon scripts

  • Users

    • Authentication

    • Authorization

    • Registration

  • Multisite

    • Many blogs

    • Many authors

    • Translated versions

  • Feedburner

    • subscribe by email

    • hide original feed

Reading

  • Entry index

    • General

    • For category

    • For tag

    • Sorted by date

    • Sticky articles

    • Entry data

    • Title

    • Author

    • Category

    • Leading text

    • Link to the full article

    • Comments count

    • Trackbacks count

    • Tags

    • pagination

    • Sidebar

    • Category list

    • Tag cloud

    • Newest comments

    • Persistent info

    • Ads

    • Links to other entries

      • Specific period

      • Random

      • Popular

  • Archive

    • per year/month

  • Single entry

    • Sidebar

    • Like on index page

    • Newest entries

    • Entries from the same category

    • Content

    • Date/time

    • Title

    • Author

    • Category

    • Leading text

    • Main (extended) text

    • Extras

    • Social icons (digg, stumbleupon, ...)

    • Comments count

    • Trackbacks count

    • Tags

    • Links

      • Related by tags

      • Neighbours

    • Trackbacks

    • Comments

    • Reply to link

    • Hierarchy

    • Link to author's page

      • Avatar

      • Gravatar

    • Email reminders about replies

  • Static pages

  • Search engine

    • Full text

    • Javascript panel

  • Feeds

    • Main

    • For category

    • For tag

    • Maybe useless

    • Subscribe by email

Commenting

  • Text comments

    • Data

    • Author

      • Remeber data in cookie

    • Email

    • Title

    • Autor's page link

    • Text

      • Markdown

    • Handling

    • Preview

    • Result info

      • Accepted

      • Awaiting moderation

    • Email reminders about replies

    • Integration

    • Disqus

    • cocomment

  • Trackbacks (accepting)

  • Pingbacks (accepting)

  • Contact form

Moderating

  • Automatical

    • Akismet/antispam

    • Captcha

    • URL filtering

  • Manual

    • Accept

    • Reject

    • Edit

  • Email

    • New comment

    • New trackback

    • Contact form filled

Catalogues/SEO

  • Permanent URLs

    • Entry

    • Category

    • Feed

    • Tag

    • Index

    • To be preserved in case of blog engine change

  • MetaKeywords

    • title

    • description

    • keywords

  • Automation

    • Trackback posting

    • Ping posting

    • Sitemap

    • generation

    • upload

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Interesting post. I thought to let you know that you website isn't getting displayed properly on android web browser on my mobile phone.

I hope that more and more number of web masters would consider the fact that there is an ever growing number of users browsing webpages on the mobile. cheers

#1 Anonymous on 2009-11-04 20:27 (Reply)
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