restless journal Monday, June 26th, 2006
A couple of new additions to the blog:
- Reading list : I have added a reading list section to the blog - in the sidebar on the right there are three links under “Reading list” : “current”, “past”, and “future”. Each link takes you to a page that displays the covers of the various books in each list, and they are linked to Amazon. The “past” reading list also has a rating for each book and a short book review I scribbled, for whatever that’s worth
- Subscribe : I have added a mailing list feature to the blog - click on the link titled “the reckless mailing list” under “Subscribe” in the sidebar. You can now get an email whenever there is a new article on this blog. The email will contain a short excerpt and a link to the post. You can also unsubscribe at any point. I won’t sell your email addresses
Thanks for reading!
June 26th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
And, for those of you who are, like me, terminally curious, some implementation details and a cautionary tale:
The reading list is a tweaked and hacked version of the “Now Reading” plugin from robm, aka roblog:
http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/now-reading/
The subscription feature comes courtesy of Skippy’s wonderfully painless “subscribe2″ plugin, version 2.2.2:
http://www.skippy.net/blog/2006/02/15/subscribe2-222/
I tried the more well-known “email notification” plugin from Watershed, (http://watershedstudio.com/portfolio/software/wp-email-notification.html) but it was a lot more complicated than Skippy’s version and, besides, I ran into a serious bug - namely, it didn’t send emails when I posted a new post. The support forums were hopeless. Someone tried to post a workaround, but the forum kept garbling their post. Stay clear of the email notification plugin