Open Blog 1.0.0 released

[eluser]Matthew Rochow[/eluser]

Code:

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This error occurs inside both RSS feeds (when viewing the source )

All looks good. I have some ideas:

SEO

http://localhost/blog/blog/post/2009/01/...-open-blog

Let's say "welcome to open blog" is my keyphrase. /blog/post/2009/01/01/ is all unnecessary and isn't going to help it rank. If you have 10,000 backlinks you can get away with sucky URL's, if you don't you need keyword-filled URL's and keywords only.

I want site.com/the-title/ and so do most people. Switching between CMS's if need be is also made a TON easier if they use a similar convention, rather than losing all backlinks and rankings because the url's had to change, especially when the existing site is huge and 301 every old page is a months work in itself.

<title> should be the title of the page - right now the title is the same on every page, which is VERY bad (lets say I googled for "the rainbow pony" and in the listings a site came up which said "matthew rochow - oh yeah" with a description of "my ramblings about stuff". No-one is going to click that link, even though my post is all about rainbow ponies - because they simply can't see that my post is called "the rainbow pony" as both the title and description doesn't say that. Title definitely needs to reflect the current page (post/search/404 etc), plus for accessibility reasons. This goes for meta keywords + descriptions also.

User Friendliness
A "Archive for April 2009", "Posts marked as 'Stuff'" etc headings would be good. Perhaps this can be done in the theming side, I haven't looked into it too much...

Admin
A WYSIWYG/HTML toggle like Wordpress does (except true HTML, not a"yeah you can enter what you want, but I'll mess with it anyway so you might as well just be using the WYSIWYG" html mode that WP uses. I hate WYSIWYG, however for guest bloggers and the like (using the same blog) they more than likely need it... having it 100% on or 100% off isn't preferred.

Having the dashboard icons included in the link would be great, makes it a lot bigger target to hit.

Comments disabled (put into moderation) setting, otherwise people who spam comments will have them displayed for however long until they're finally spotted and deleted. I'd prefer to manually approve comments, however someone who gets hundreds of comments a post could prefer them getting instantly approved.

"Posts per site" - is this "posts per page"?
"Links per box" - no idea what this is. Maybe a little (?) icon which can have detailed tooltips.

These would be cool
- Mobile template. Easy to do, just use any free mobile detect function, and if its a mobile go to /mobile/ and use that template instead of the default one.
- Image manager. Rather than having to upload to somewhere else and then enter the URL (heck, half my clients don't even know what a URL is! ) Makes life WAY easier!

Seriously though, it's really great and I like it a lot. Some people are born perfectionists and simply must pay attention to the smallest of details