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Blogger del.icio.us publishing and post categorizing helper

Adds a tags field for Blogger posts and helps keep your notes in sync with your Del.icio.us categories according to the tags you used. Also, if you go to http://pingoat.com/ and/or http://pingomatic.com/, http://pinger.blogflux.com/, http://nyligen.se/pinga.php or http://svensk.lemonad.org/pingman.php after installing this script, and point either ping tool to your blog, you will get additional links here from your publish pages. Note that you need to do this for every blog you want links to separately (figuring you might want to change options for where to ping posts for each blog). Clicking these additional icons will ping the appropriate site, flashing the icon while doing so. If the flashing stops on a semi-transparent button, the pinging failed, if it stops in a solid state, it was successful. The URLs of the "Details..." view also get made into clickable URLs. Some of this functionality is also made available via Blogger's BlogThis! page. Version 1.12.

This page is mostly a brief round-up of what the script does; a more detailed tutorial on how to use the script is available at the "script homepage":http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogger-publish-ping-and-categorizer.html where you also find much more user feedback, hints and tips to other people who quite likely wondered the same things you do.

h3. Tagging

This script adds tagging support to Blogger blogs. It features a Tags: field on the post edit page and invisibly appends a chunk of tags to the posts you tag, which ends up a

list you can "style using CSS":http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/12/styling-your-blog-post-tags-list-with.html in any way you find appropriate (the linked tutorial explains how to get them lined up on one line, and optionally how to prepend each tag link with a tiny Del.icio.us icon).

h3. Publishing

On publishing a page, you see the normal Blogger publish animation, and then get a slightly changed view. First, there is a link to Del.icio.us, which, when clicked, will let you save your tags and related data on the post at Del.icio.us. Doing this is also good for "adding tag navigation to your blog":http://ghill.customer.netspace.net.au/freshtags/

h3. Pinging

If you use any publish ping tools such as the Blogflux pinger, Pingomatic, Pingoat, Nyligen or Svensk lemonad to notify blog aggregators of your new post, you will also get pinger icons for those sites that make pinging them one click away from the publish page.

Again, for any queries or feature requests, I warmly recommend a read and perhaps post at the "script homepage":http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogger-publish-ping-and-categorizer.html -- enjoy!






Jan 5, 2006
Johan Sundström Script's author

(Well, apart from Technorati's own automated indexing, which picks up links marked with a rel=tag attribute, which does get added by this script.)
 
Jan 3, 2006
Johan Sundström Script's author

The script does in no way integrate with Technorati; you have to type the tags into the Tags: field once for them to show up on posts. The script homepage answers the question of how to restyle the bullet list to something else.
 
Dec 29, 2005
Paul Raven a... User

Dammit...I meant [div class="tags"][/div], but it went invisible because I'm a no-codew muppet
 
Dec 29, 2005
Paul Raven a... User

Looking through the code (and not being a code wizard by any stretch), it looks like there's a bit that takes out any

tags and puts them in the header...would this be why the tags to technorati I had previously put on posts don't show in the editor? And are they still there but invisible (functionality alone is fine with me as long as technorati gets the tags)? And last of all, any way I can jigger it so the delicious tags appear in a line and not a bullet list? Cheers...AA
 
Dec 29, 2005
Johan Sundström Script's author

That has been an option all along; the URL you get to specify upon initial installation and when clicking the Tags: label is the URL that gets linked to. That it contains another default unless you change it does not mean that you could not edit it to link to anywhere, even technorati, should you so prefer.

Indeed the script picks up the location posts are published to (the blogger permalink tag isn't available anywhere on the publish page, unfortunately). ftp isn't supported yet. If reinstalling the latest version and reconfiguring (clicking Tags:) doesn't fix your problems, describing their nature in greater detail might help me address them. I've been putting off the ftp bits as it's kind of boring work and I don't have access to a testing environment for them myself; bribery might help with that. :-)

I have been putting off, perhaps permanently, fully automated del.icio.us updates, as it would require you to store passwords in the script configuration (which is a bad idea, security wise) and because it would make the script less robust (as there are many things that could go wrong, and would not show you what failed how).

I also warmly recommend commenting this script at the script's homepage above, as I get notifications about them there, which I do not get here.
 
Dec 22, 2005
Adrian Warnock User

Actually, I am getting a similar problem to Robert- I think the issue is that it is somehow getting the URL from where the item is published, rather than from the blogger permalink tag.
 
Dec 21, 2005
Adrian Warnock User

OK
I sussed the problem.... I wanted to have the tags linking to the general tag page ie where others are posting on the subject http://del.icio.us/tag/yourtag rather than the one that includes the username!

Any change of having that as an option that wouldnt switch off the submission process, also, what about automating the submission to save a couple of mouse clicks?
 
Dec 21, 2005
Adrian Warnock User

I have tried this, and it seemed to work, except for the minor point that nothing actually got added to delicious! Was I doing something wrong?

Here is the page of the post that was generated-

http://www.adrian.warnock.info/2005/12/deliciou...
 
Dec 21, 2005
Johan Sundström Script's author

They are comma and/or space delimited, whichever you prefer. Just as Del.icio.us tags, you can't have space characters in tags though, so even if you use commas, do not expect My trip to San Francisco come out as one tag.
 
Dec 17, 2005
ycc2106 User

Are the tag comma delimited?
 
Dec 17, 2005
ycc2106 User

I see the 'link to delicious' link once saved, so it's not completly automatic?
 
Dec 12, 2005
Johan Sundström Script's author

I haven't tested it with non-Blogger-published blogs yet, so the fault is probably mine. If you could save a copy of the "Published!" page (HTML only is fine) and post a link to it, I am quite confident I could make it work with your setup too, as long as all the information that is needed to create the link can be inferred from that page.

The Blogger hosted Published page needs a bit of client side parsing to get the job done; I would assume something similar for your use case.
 
Dec 9, 2005
Robert Griff... User

Having installed this, all works well for me, except the "post to del.icio.us" link doesn't contain the correct url for the blog-entry. For example it creates "http://del.icio.us/robandwend?v=3&url=http://rg.ii.net/blog//blog/index.html&...etc...
The problem is that this is pointing to my index page, not the specific post, and the URL contains /blog/ twice (it should just be once).
Does anyone have any idea's what I've not done, or done wrong.
Many thanks.

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