The Playground

Today I did some template tweaking on Toni's Corner of the World with a new favorite icon on the comment and trackback posted to lines, and added a favourite posts code to the sidebar and main and individual entry templates.

Favicon is a plugin for Movable Type that adds favicons to comments and trackbacks. Favicons are small icons shown in the browsers location bar and on shortcuts for better identification of a website. The user needs to leave a URL for favicon to work, since the favicon is being detected via the users URL either by the URL in the comment or in the trackback.

My second tweak was to add a "Favourite Posts" list on the sidebar on Toni's Corner of the World. The idea here is to allow your readers to vote for their favourite post in your blog. The top three voted for posts show up in your sidebar. The installation is pretty simple with good instructions. I tried fiddling with the PHP files in this script to get it to display 5 entries, but 3 seems to be the maximum number.

My third little tweak was to include the Acronym code in the entry body tag on the main and archive templates. The Acronym plugin adds an underline (or whatever style you like) to the letters of an acronym, eg HTML, and pops up a description, eg, Hyper Text Markup Language.