You would not believe what I had to go through just to get the archive to the miniblog section, the one I've affectionately named "With a linkness." For the most part, it's a really easy little plug-in to install...but implementing it is a gigantic bear.

First, you have to create a new page, but not the kind of page you're used to creating, this one you have to build from scratch. Since there's php commands, you have to use the template and add all the other good stuff in there. That's not all that bad, as you can hack up the page as you want, and you really have a lot of control in what goes where. One of the things that I noticed was there was no way to view archived links.

I was thinking that somehow I missed how to build the archive somewhere in the documentation, when I found out the development had moved to a guy named Joe. Fine and dandy, "just gimme my archive" I was thinking. Actually, I wasn't thinking that, I was rather thinking it was great that somebody was updating it to work better (or, at all) with WP 2.0.

Looking through the documentation, I found out there was that very thing I was looking for: and archive function. All I would have to do is put in one simple link, and I'd have me some loverly archive action going on. Problem: not only was this plug-in coded with Kubrick in mind, it sort of ignored all that coding I'd put in the style. So, more hacking of a plug-in so that I'd never remember all the edits I'd made.

Head. Bouncing. On. Table.

It's a good thing that the plug-in was made so clearly, as I was able to hack it pretty easy, and I removed some of the nicer stuff in my code just to make it all look the same. Anyways, now the links have an archive. I'm pretty pleased by this.

status: published
lastmod: '2006-11-07T02:25:24.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
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