One place where you can see all the comment activity across all Kottu blogs. Most blogs have comment feeds, don’t they?

Maybe googlebot is smarter than that. I dunno.

(You’ve also told every crawler to follow stats and inflate the hit count on each and every link, but maybe you want that)

@Dilantha:
Don’t use UTW for community tagging. It works wonderfully well for single person or small group blogs, but I’m pretty certain it’s not yet intended for community stuff.

@n#:
Use wp-kses to strip dodgy HTML you don’t want to let through (I use it for another project to kill off divs and spans inserted by spaces.msn). Also, you may want to look at str_word_count (PHP function) to create nicer summaries (Much nicer to excerpt based on complete words rather than chars, IMHO)

Don’t use strip_tags either… WordPress includes a nice version of kses which can do all of that and much much more (strip_tags can’t do multiple lines, nor single tags as permitted by xhtml)

My real email address is in this comment, drop me a line if you want me to send you some code samples (the tracking stuff in particular has already been written.. you just need to make the code WP specific by hooking the appropriate actions and you’re done). I’m also in CMB for a couple more days :)

Also, have you looked at using wp-cron/wp-db-backup to dump old old posts periodically?

Finally, could you please please upgrade your kottu version of WP to 2.0.5? I have a vested interest in this as 2.0.2 produces broken RSS feeds on occasion (known bug in 2.0.2 where feeds were not escaped properly). I’ve mentioned this to a kottu admin – but at any rate 2.0.3, 2.0.4 and 2.0.5 all had security fixes too, so it may be worth an upgrade in any case :) and it works for me because the feed bugs got fixed in 2.0.3. Thanks :)

How about a Kottu blog, for update news, and threads like this, where people can discuss new ideas? How about http://www.kottu.org/blog ? Just a thought.

I think your idea for an aggregator of SL news feeds is excellent. But not on the Kottu blog syndicator.

http://www.kottu.org/news would be ideal. Or even news.kottu.org would be good. So many people would check into that, to see the latest SL news from various sources. I check about seven SL news sites using RSS now, which is so damn easy. In web format it would be even better. All the latest SL news in one place.

FeedWordpress does strip the posts and I’m using wordpress to trim the post down to an excerpt. However, some posts seem to get through in their entirety. Pain in the bum actually. I would like to manually strip some things (long URLs, wonky images).

As for xHTML, I admire standards but I don’t follow them. If you’d be interested in implementing them on Kottu that’d be cool.

And the obvious suggestion. Please ensure the site validates.

I’m not sure whether this is what you’d want to do (the killing formats and thumbnails bit) but its worth considering, from a security standpoint.

AFAIK Feedwordpress already filters insecure content (I’m not sure on this, I see some filtering in the code.. ), so the main benefit you get would be cosmetic (no post can break a site)

In theory we might be able to save the thumbnail (and images) by some tweaking (say, convert every

Re: click counting:
You have configured kottu to lead directly to the author post, so for you to count clicks, you would need a redirector script (say something like http://www.kottu.org/out.php?http://site/posturl)

That script would count the click and redirect the visitor transparently to destination site.

Other than that method, you could use some form of ajax/javascript to capture the click? (not really an expert in this area, perhaps Dilantha can help?)

Security
I see that you allow kottu to pick up code blocks directly from the subscribed site (excerpt/content, whatever)

I suggest you consider filtering the content a little more. In particular, its best if you remove any code in the excerpt, also any scripts, for security reasons. (I think feedwordpress already removes JS but I’m not sure), if not (in theory) people could execute some code, and more singnificantly a single xhtml error in a blog post could break your whole site

Also, its best if you implement a length filter to chop off the excerpt after so many characters, as some blog sites (e.g. MSN blogs) tend to send the whole post instead of an excerpt.

To implement a length filter open up feedwordpress code and look at the point where it extracts the post and use something like:
$ excerpt = substr ( $ excerpt,0,500 ).’…’;
(remove spaces)

i.e. show only the first 500 chr’s of the post

to filter code you can use strip_tags($variable) – that should chop off any code in the post leaving simple text. You might have to strip off code the title also as some people attempt to format that ( tsk, tsk, manshark ;-) )

As for the vote/redirect script I can’t immediately think of one in wp but I will let you know if I find one, also Dilantha might be able to help.

I guess you’d get a URL redirector script, and put that code in feedwordpress or the main template
i.e. somewhere it says something like $ url you’d replace that with myre-directorscript?url= $ url

Hope this is helpful..

BTW, the “refresh feed” feature is missing in new template. Did you dropped it purposely for some reason, or you frogot it?

The voting system you suggest is the ideal if implemented. //count the number of times people click an article and make that the defacto vote\\

Digg.com have something like this, (34 diggs, 100 diggs etc) but again I don’t know how they do it.