Category: Mango Blog

Sitemap awareness from Robots.txt

In writig a plugin for Mango Blog, I found out that the big leaguers for search engines have gotten together and decided that sitemap awareness from robots.txt was a good idea. This was news to me despite that this has been out there for more than a year now.

To add your sitemaps to your robots.txt simply add this line:
Sitemap: http://www.YourWebsite.com/sitemap.xml

In my case i used:
Sitemap: http://www.empiregpservices.com/blog/sitemap.xml

Further information:
http://www.sitemaps.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000437.html

0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 2:03 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | Mango Blog

Site Map Generator: Mango Blog Plugin

I've created yet another plugin for the ColdFusion Mango Blog package. Last night I was suppose to be doing one thing and my ADD kicked in and I did this for some reason.

This new Site Map Generator Plugin will create a sitemap.xml document in your blog's root directory. Sitemaps are supported by search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask.com and Moreover.com and a few more I'm sure at least.

More info after the jump or
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13 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 1:37 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | Mango Blog | My Projects

New Mango Blog Plugin: Sphere.com Module Plugin

This weekend I stumbled upon a link on CNN for "Sphere: Related Content". Intrigued I clicked the link to check it out and found the results interesting. After some investigation I found that the service was free and not too hard to impliment. To help keep me from working on things I should be, I wrote it as a plugin for Mango Blog. A blurb from their marketing information:

• Enhance your readers' experience by offering related content and connecting on-line conversations
• Enhance site interaction by establishing your site as an information hub for readers
• Acquire new readers by adding your content to the Sphere network of content

Screen shots after the jump
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1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 9:36 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Mango Blog

New Version of Feed Ping for Mango Blog

I have made some more updates to my Auto Ping Plugin (1.1). I'm much happier with this version. I've included more hardcoded XML-RPC options as well as adding 5 custom XML-RPC url options. There is now a logging option that was a 1.05 feature. for right now I just put a FeedPingLog.txt into the root of the website. I will probably put this in a better place at a later time.

The new built in list contains: BlogFlux, BlogShares, BlogRolling, BulkFeeds, Feed Burner, Google, Ice Rocket, Moreover, Ping-o-Matic, Syndic8, Technorati, Weblogs and Yahoo.

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1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 9:40 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | Mango Blog

Download my Mango Theme

I'm not sure if anyone would be interested but I've wrapped up my enhanced skin and I'm making it available to anyone who wants it. I liked the Nautica 05 skin that came with Mango, but it was just a little too chunky for me.

A few of my changes include

• Shrunk top image giving more room for vertical text
• Added a text-bubble to the image for your blog's description
• Move the search to the top right of the page
• Added links for RSS and Atom instead of just RSS
• I have removed the left nav bar on sub pages and only show children elements
• Main nav bar hight is shorter giving again more vertical space
• And I can't forget my amazing 1bit pedestrian
  

 

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1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 9:38 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | Mango Blog

New Mango Blog Plugin: Auto Ping

I've created a new plugin for the ColdFusion Blog Mango. I've recently switched to this blog software and I am very impressed with it so far. I quickly whipped up this plugin last night so I could regain the auto-ping feature I remember having in BlogCFC.

The plugin it's self was VERY simple to write and from looking at thier documentation the limits are endless.

Included is the ability to ping 5 hand written URLs (like MXNA) and several XML-RPC sites, although right now the list is small. I will be updating this in the future and adding many more I hope. I'm certainly willing to take any suggestions on which ones are used the most.

• Technorati
• Ice Rocket
• Weblogs
  

 

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0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 12:12 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Development | Mango Blog

Now Mango Powered

Following in the footsteps and recomendation of Andrew Powell I've started to use Mango Blog (I even stole the title from his blog). Months ago I started having some odd issues with my HostMySite account and MachBlog. It worked fine until they upgraded my server and then all of a sudden nothing using ColdSpring would init correctly. I don't really have a good reason for not trying MachBlog again other than for the reason that I get bored and like to try new things a lot.

But now I'm back blogging and slowly [manually] migrating over old posts, but unfortunetly I've lost almost all my relevent ColdFusion/Flex/AJAX content.

I have run into multiple NULL Pointer errors with Mango Blog so far, and will in the future start to document them but usualy a reload of the page clears the problem right up. The interface is certainly nice and clean and looks more polished than my previous experiences with other CF blog packages; so KUDOS to the developer(s).

2 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 7:15 AM - Categories: Development | General News | Mango Blog