February 1, 2010
Favourite Habari Plugins
One of my favourite things about Habari is the fact that it's super lightweight (unlike Wordpress which ultimately serves hundreds of bytes of old code that powers functionality I don't use). As such, anything beyond the basic blog — write, read, comment — requires a plugin, enabling me to have total control over my site. To encourage those of you considering Habari, I thought I'd share the Habari plugins that I use to make my blog great (in no particular order)...
- RN Monthly Archives Plugin — I use this plugin to display my 12-month list of archives in the sidebar, as well as my full archive
- RN Related Posts Plugin — this one is new to me, brought in specifically for this theme. It shows related posts based on tags in the sidebar of individual posts, and is loads more accurate (so far) than my old attempts at related posts!
- Comment Notifier — this one sends your comments to my inbox so that I don't forget to approve them! ;)
- Defensio — personalised comment checking to help filter spam. Admittedly, this one is only temporary because I plan on writing my own plugin. Mixed feelings on effectiveness, but it's better than nothing!
- Edit: Auto-Approve — as recommended by Melly. Auto-approves non-spam comments.
So, have I convinced you to try Habari yet?
September 30, 2009
24 Hours with Habari
So here we are, 24 hours after moving nearly 2 weeks worth of work (on and off) and it's still standing. I'm impressed. :) Anyway, given that I know my conversion is generating a lot of talk about Habari and interest amongst you guys I thought I'd collect together some of my initial thoughts. Let's start with the negative, because then we can end on a positive note...
- There is no comment mailing built in. I woke up to a near-empty inbox and spent 5 minutes trying to figure out ...
September 29, 2009
I've Converted to Habari
I recently asked for recommendations for a blogging script through .net forum to fulfil the requests of those wanting something more professional than FanUpdate, but without the relative bloat of WordPress. @otherniceman was kind enough to point me in the direction of Habari and not only was I impressed enough to have used it as the base of several recommendations, but I've also converted my own site to it. You may remember that it was only last year I recommended Chyrp. Indeed, I still like the quirky little script. ... read more »
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