Important BlogCFC Update
BlogCFC 5.9.3.005 was released to the RIAForge project. This includes an important update to SweetTweets support. You may have noticed the first hit on a blog entry with SweetTweets enabled was super slow. This made sense due to the number of HTTP calls being made to fetch data. SweetTweets has nice caching support, but the end result was that your blog entries would be slow as heck on the first hit.
I've made a simple, but effective change. jQuery is now used to load the SweetTweet contents. This makes the blog entry load immediately and the SweetTweet links will load in a few seconds. I'm still using the cache, so on the 2nd-N hit, the information will load so quick folks won't notice the Ajax.
I hope this helps. A few other changes were made as well.
Many compliments on the stability and scalability of BlogCFC!
That being said, I've got some questions:
Can you point me in the direction of a reliable discussion on dropping FCK into the blog as the default editor for everyone?
Is there a way to turn off commenting entirely, much like you can use allowtrackbacks=0 to disable trackbacks?
Which .cfm files would I have to tweak to add an expiration date feature to the entry process so that posts can expire, or be permanent if no date / time frame is given?
I'm having some difficulty placing pods on both sides of the main blog window (center column). First, I'm new to CSS, but your layout/styling seems pretty straightforward. So, 1) how can I have pods that flank both sides of the main blog "window" and then 2) center the entire thing on the background of the page to adjust for increase in width?
This is alot of stuff, so feel free to email me...
Thanks
-A
2) Turn off commenting: No, you could with a few small hacks. Like in index.cfm, find the code that shows comments and just add a "AND 0" to the clause. AND 0 will always make the clause false.
3) Expiration: You wan to _delete_ them? Or make them not show up?
4) CSS: Not sure really. The CSS was given to me by Scott Stroz. I can barely design a table. ;)
Okay, next, is a question. Can I cut out all those render thingies? I can't get them to work. I'm getting an error that says
The string "variables.renderMethods[amazonbox].cfc" is not a valid ColdFusion variable name.
I've tried manipulating this everyway I can think of but can't get it to recognize this as a variable. Maybe there is a work around or a fix I'm missing.
As for the render tags - no need to cut them out if you don't like them... just don't use them. :)
Well, I've tried 5 different hosts and they all have blocked dfobject and createObject so I must be looking in all the wrong places.