The MyBlogLog WordPress plugin is receiving a very belated face lift and a few bug fixes (thanks to those who reported them). Now, as a disclaimer, this code is relatively untested and was dug out of a very old archive from my days at cloudspace (the company who initially partnered to create MyBlogLog), so use it at your own risk. If you find any bugs, just drop me an email using the contact form and I will try to help in any way I can. This release has been activated on at least 2 WordPress 2.3.3 installs, so yes, it works with 2.3.3!
Check the project page to download the latest plugin file.
Oh, and still no readme.txt. 
Well, it’s been over a year since I released my Wordpress MyBlogLog plugin, and I’m still getting emails about it. Honestly, I’m very surprised that this thing still works. If you’re using the plugin now, or want to, let me know! I think it is time for a big code overhaul, and perhaps some new features but there is no sense in developing this plugin if there’s no demand. If you’ve got an idea, post it up and I’ll do my best to get it out there in the wild with the next release. I did notice the guys over at MyBlogLog have been hard at work improving the JavaScript and their own feature set as well which means I should probably update the plugin pretty soon. Also, I am aware of the missing readme file! Please, I know about it, and I’ve posted about it. I promise, next release, you all will get an extensive readme!
Anyways, it amazes me how far MyBlogLog has come since the day I registered and alpha tested it. Really, you have no idea how simple the idea was at the time. Todd, Eric, Steve, John and the rest of the crew over there at Cloudspace and Yahoo, my hats off to you guys.
The site has been upgraded to Wordpress 2.1.2 and I’m working on a new template. Enjoy.
Update: Site is now XHTML standardized! (If it isn’t, drop me a line and I will fix it…)
Update Again: Added in the new contact form plugin and my resume page.
Well, its been awhile since I’ve had a chance to post. A lot has been happening with my work and college. All leading up to the probably graduation in May 2007, so I’ve been unable to post as often as I would have liked.
So what’s been going on? Well let’s see…
- The web speculates that MyBlogLog is in acquisition talks…
- Apple updated, well, everything in their line yet again
- I have left my position with FuJ Tech, and will continue to work on freelance projects
- I recently learned that MediaTemple’s Grid service is actually not a grid. So much for that idea.
- Sony’s PS3 has about as many issues as the Xbox360 had at launch, but with almost double the initial pricetag
- The Nintendo Wii is selling like crazy, as predicted, and I for one will be buying one once I raise some funds.
- Windows Vista is practically out, and Acer is saying not to bother with the ‘Basic’ version.
Did I miss anything? Oh well, check the Digg section or my ma.gnolia for daily link updates and news stories.
Edit: Just realized this site does not validate. Seems that K2 and the MyBlogLog plugin (which I wrote, ironically) are the culprits as well as some posts where I’ve used h4’s. I’ll be picking these things apart over the next month or two. I am hoping to roll my own theme instead, but at the moment I just don’t have the time.
The site is again live, which is a relief. I basically took a couple weeks off for school and work, etc. Please update your links, we are back to the very nice mod_rewrite way of life which means you can now access everything with user friendly URLs once again. The site has been moved back onto the Linux hosting on Lunarpages, and will stay here until next August. At that time, I will probably be hunting for new hosts, or making deals with the current hosting overlords.
I also updated the site to the newest version of Wordpress and K2. What does that mean to you? Oh probably not much, but I did fix the icons to render without that unsightly grey background in IE.
The MyBlogLog plugin will be posted as soon as I can find the newest source. I did leave Cloudspace, and most recently FuJ Tech which leaves me with quite a bit of new found free time, minus the freelance projects I need to get done. That means I have a ton of source code laying around, and I need to get it all published.
In the coming weeks I am hoping to release the PHP Calendar script I wrote based on an old Zend tutorial, as well as the newest MBL Plugin for Wordpress.
Any questions?
Hubert? 1passwd
Just an update on the hosting issues I’ve been having lately. My email is currently in limbo between the backup servers, as far as I can tell. I may or may not recieve emails placed between yesterday through today. The techs assure me this is being taken care of, but they always say that. Most likely the site will be moving this week to another hosting plan within Lunarpages, but hopefully away from them entirely. The windows hosting at Lunarpages has been nothing short of subpar, and I would not recommend their windows plan to anyone.
For more information on the trials and tribulations of my support tickets, check out my feedback article on the Lunarforums.
Thank you all for your patience. If you have any immediate needs, or concerns contact me via my cellphone or my gmail address (abyss12).
Took awhile, but the site is back.
Please note that all email notifications and contact forms are offline due to the lack of sendmail. I am working on it, if you really need to contact me you can email me. Thanks!
Soon to come:
Wordpress Update- Ali’s Website
- More updates.
- Fix sendmail
- Recode Site in ASP.NET
Updated - February 20th, 2008
There is no readme file for my plugin, and for that I apologize. If you need further instructions, just drop me an email and I’ll do my best to lend a hand. Though, this plugin is quite out of date and I would heartily recommend using the sidebar widgets HTML plugin instead, as it does much of the same thing and is included with the new Wordpress distribution.
A few months ago the company I work for (cloudspace) built an awesome link tracking system called MyBlogLog. Ever since, I’ve been trying to use it with Wordpress. After upgrading to Wordpress 2.0, I decided it was time to integrate MyBlogLog into Wordpress without opening the template code. I spent about an hour or two learning the Wordpress plugin API and came up with the MyBlogLog Wordpress plugin. At the moment, it only integrates the actual link tracking code and the Top 5 Links script. The plugin allows you to enable or disable the Top 5 Links script and set its colors. The plugin hooks the main tracking script in just before the content of the site and the Top 5 Links code is inserted just after the Meta section of your template. As far as I know, there are no template specific issues thus far and everything should be working. I wrote this plugin for myself, but I figured others might find it useful as well so I am going ahead and releasing the plugin here.
Continue reading ‘MyBlogLog Wordpress 2.0 Plugin’
Just updated the site to use the add-digg api instead of my plugin for the digg page, and added a projects section for my code. I will be adding content to the projects section whenever I can. Expect more updates soon!
Update: Added ma.gnolia syndication as well. Not sure if I will keep them both, but I’ll give it a shot.
I wrote a real dirty javascript RSS feed reader and integrated it into Wordpress. What does this mean to you? It means anything I ‘digg’ on digg.com now shows up on the digg page of this site. Enjoy!
