For the two or so people who read this site, you know I run the extraordinarily well-read With a linkness section with the Miniblog plugin. I like it, and it gets me the chicks.

Yeah, that's a lie.

But you didn't come here to listen to my lies, you came to listen to my not-lies. We call them facts. Not 'we' as in 'you and I,' I mean the royal 'we.' You and I, well, that's just not going to work out, I'm sorry. I've packed all your things, and they're sitting on the porch.

But, before you go, look at some small ways to change Miniblog to make it gooder, because improving things is cool:

1. Right now, one of the features of Miniblog is that it shows up in one page. That's nice, but I now have a 300k page that has to load every time I want to write another 16-word post. If it were up to me, there would be separate pages for Write new post, Edit posts, Documentation and Help+Check for Updates+Uninstall. The first page you'd come to would be the edit window, with the other two windows in panels.

2. Somebody else said it in the Todo list, but a better, less fussy RSS feed. Using FeedBurner cleans a lot of it up, but it would be nice if the URL of the RSS feed would not be this 255 character filename.

3. Speaking of the RSS feed, I'd like my HTML to work, thank you. It might be something I'm doing wrong, but the RSS feed is where HTML goes to die.

4. Widgetize it. I have no need for Widgets, but that's the latest in vogue thing to do for WordPress plugins.

5. Improve the functionality and usability of the archives. I was flat stunned when I got the latest version and saw that I could put in an archive of old links. Styling it to look like it does, that was another matter. Just like with IPAT, I had to hack in some controls. Not that I don't mind an afternoon where I mess around with code to make something look nice, but most people would be afraid to hack up a plugin. Plus, I don't really remember everything I did.

More stuff for the Todo list. It really is a neat little plugin, and it can be better. Joe's already got upgrade plans, so we'll see what that does to improve things.

For those of you interested, here's the Miniblog MacStansbury Edition for you downloading pleasure. Change the extension from .txt to .php to use.

status: published
lastmod: '2006-11-07T02:29:28.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
cms: wordpress
custom:
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  similarterms: miniblog feed things nice page plugin html list make change hack write post latest todo improve edit people improving work
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