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Re: Feed Styling Alternative and some Traffic Analysis

Dane Morgan — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:02:55 -0000

I don't know that I would call myself a purist, but one thing that hits me right off is that I use my own style sheets for reading feeds. I'd prefer to read them my way, and come to the blog if I want your styling (you and your in the general sense of course). Though I doubt it's enough of an issue to get me very worked up at all over it.

...On the mention of thinking about prociding subscriber only information on your blog...

Here is the dead simple and highly effective way to do so.
Mark Edwards created a simple little plugin called hidethis. using the plugin anything you place between  and  will only be displayed to registered, logged in readers. You can find the plugin at:
http://edwards.org/2006/03/...

Additionally I rewrote the plugin to do the opposite; Show anything between  and  only to readers that are NOT currently logged in. Obviously this allows you to tellthem that there is hidden content, and they need to log in or register to see it, without having to display the notice to your logged in readers.

This is a nice way to offer subscriber only content without turning your blog, or sections of your blog into a membership type site. Just pop the content in where it makes sense and wrap it in show or hide tags.

http://danemorgan.com/plain...

Re: Feed Styling Alternative and some Traffic Analysis

Dane Morgan — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:02:55 -0000

...On the mention of thinking about prociding subscriber only information on your blog...

http://danemorgan.com/plain...

Re: Feed Styling Alternative and some Traffic Analysis

Dawud Miracle — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:43:12 -0000

Pretty cool looking plugin. I'm going to put in my list of plugins to check out. Thanks

Re: Feed Styling Alternative and some Traffic Analysis

Dawud Miracle — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:43:12 -0000

Pretty cool looking plugin. I'm going to put in my list of plugins to check out. Thanks

Re: Feed Styling Alternative and some Traffic Analysis

Ronalfy — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:18:59 -0000

Thanks for the interest in the plugin. I hope it works out for you.

I'm not sure how Devlounge tracks visitors. I know AJ uses Mint, so that filters out a lot of the bots and spiders.

Again, thanks for the mention.

Re: Feed Styling Alternative and some Traffic Analysis

Ronalfy — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:18:59 -0000

Thanks for the interest in the plugin. I hope it works out for you.

I'm not sure how Devlounge tracks visitors. I know AJ uses Mint, so that filters out a lot of the bots and spiders.

Again, thanks for the mention.