Spring Cleaning (Blogger Style)


It's long over due but I did what I should really be doing ever few months, I went through and cleaned up my Worpress installation and did my upgrades and checked to make sure all my Mint peppers were working properly.

I uninstalled about five Wordpress plugins that I didn't need and removed the unnecessary files. We all know a clean server is a happy server. I also did the next upgrade for Wordpress (2.5.1) which fixes my peeve about the URL button in the WYSIWYG but alas, still no fantasy drop down menu.

Minty Fresh Audit

I also did a quick audit of my Mint installation and noticed that my download pepper wasn't tracking any data. The last time I noticed I assumed it's cause nothing was getting downloaded. Well I have two plugins published from my blog and I'm getting hits from people clicking on the link within their Wordpress installs so I guess people are downloading! So I looked into what was wrong.

The download pepper wasn't working because my mint install is on my root domain (ninedays.org) and my blog is in a sub domain. inorder for the download pepper to track from the subdomain to the domain I have to tell it that remote entries are cool, with &remote appended to the URL.

I wanted to still us JavaScript to rewrite the URL's to redrerct for the pepper's tracking so I had to go into the JavaScript file /pepper/tillkruess/downloads/script.js and modify line 16 from e[i].href = Mint_TK_script + escape(e[i].href); to this: e[i].href = Mint_TK_script + escape(e[i].href) +'&remote'; to force &remote to the end of the URL string.

Now it records my downloads :) yay!

What's Next

Only like 10,000 other things I need to do, including finish my display for the 26things may 2008 photo project. I'm building this really cool simple application that uses the Flickr API to let me just make a database entry for each of the 26 things then my script will connect everything and pull all the data from Flickr.

Oh and then there's the other projects but we'll get to those later! No wonder I never sleep!

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