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can anyone recommend a good blog?
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:27 am
by MrPotatoes
http://www.mr-potatoes.com/blog
i have a blog currently and all i really love about it is the theme that i found and it's a pita to fix themes. i want something that is natural and less "thinking". honestly. my time is so valuable now that spending more than an hour trying to theme a blog is insane to me.
so, i ask, do you know of any good blogs? currently i'm using wordpress and what i wanted is this:
* pretty URL's if possible. not a necessity. it's really just for me
* permissions system. i need to be able to let only certain users view posts that i make. not based on permission level.
* gallery plugin or gallery already made for it
* ability to make pages. wordpress has that and i've always been a fan of that. the links in the header to my blog and those are specific pages.
* wiki plugin (if at all, that would be crazy sick)
* wicked easy to theme. i want it to look just the way that i have it now. i'm not super dooper with CSS so... you know
in case you couldn't tell this is for my personal website so i'm not using blogger/live journal etc
really its the gallery/permissions system that i want. i can make pages and i don't actually need a wiki or pretty URL's like wordpress provides. but those things would be extra nice
anyone knows and can recommend anything good?
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:18 pm
by feyd
I've had security problems with Wordpress in the past, so I'll personally recommend something like blogger where their system will upload static files to your server.
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:58 am
by matthijs
@Feyd, what kind of problems did you have? And were they handled correctly by the wordpress team (if you notified them, that is)?
I think there's almost no software without security issues now and then (even Google has the occasional xss issue), but what is worse is when they aren't dealt with in a proper way by the developers.
As far as I can see wordpress seems like a possible good candidate for what MrPotatoes's looking for (featurewise). I see you use it now. Do you have any problems you want to have solved or do you miss features?
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:13 am
by feyd
I haven't notified the team as I couldn't track down exactly how the penetration happened, but suffice it to say a virus was injected into a script.
With the blogger solution (hosted outside of Google) it's purely static HTML. So even with an XSS it's pretty difficult to actually compromise anything on the blog's side.
I generally like Wordpress, don't get me wrong. The feature set and plugins are quite nice, the theme selection and ease of installation are nice too. It's just because I've had this penetration I likely will switch my existing personal blog over to Blogger until I choose to build my own solution (for kicks.) However because I blog so infrequently as I rarely feel I have anything useful to say of my own creation, it's likely I'll just kill off my personal blog.
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:15 am
by matthijs
Ok, thanks for the clarification. Too bad that happened.
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:16 am
by MrPotatoes
matthijs wrote:@Feyd, what kind of problems did you have? And were they handled correctly by the wordpress team (if you notified them, that is)?
I think there's almost no software without security issues now and then (even Google has the occasional xss issue), but what is worse is when they aren't dealt with in a proper way by the developers.
As far as I can see wordpress seems like a possible good candidate for what MrPotatoes's looking for (featurewise). I see you use it now. Do you have any problems you want to have solved or do you miss features?
well two things. i'm using someone else's theme and it's great and all but it doesn't work in all browsers. it's fine in Opera 8, FF and kinda in FF. i use Opera 9 at home and it doesn't work in there at all. the only one it works fully in is Opera 8. i don't know nor do i want to know how to change a template because i do far too much to be bothered to learn something new that will be phased out in weeks. it's what i generally dislike about Open Source.
then i want it so that there are groups or permissions. on live journal i can set some of my blogposts so that onlya group can see it. so a user or two in that group can see that post. i don't want to go start setting it up with a supid ass password. that's arcaic
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:39 am
by matthijs
well two things. i'm using someone else's theme and it's great and all but it doesn't work in all browsers.
Well, that's what we are here for, isn't it? I do have experience with wp themes so if you need some help just let me know.
then i want it so that there are groups or permissions.
In wordpress there is a user permission system. As an admin you can assign different levels of permissions to users/groups. I don't know the ins and outs of how it works, but I have used it in the past to allow certain people to only edit certain sections of the site
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:59 am
by MrPotatoes
help on the actual theme is fine. i'd like it to at least showup in Opera 9. i want to upgrade on that at home soon. i'm still on 8 over there.
secondly there is no options in the write post area to allow only a certain group to read a page. i would honestly not be looking into another blog if that were the case. cuz i'd go on the wordpress forums and just ask for help on the theme.
it's really bothering me too lol. password protecting is just stupid as all hell imo
The Answer! (?)
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:28 pm
by matt1019
Hello MrPotatoes!
I read this post a couple weeks ago, and since I could not help you in any way, I did not reply.
However, as I was browsing today, I came across this and immediately thought of your post:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Restriction
Hopefully this is the answer you were looking for.
Best,
-Matt
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:37 pm
by matt1019
maybe this:
http://blog.firetree.net/2005/08/25/viewlevel-20/
Then again, just check the whole page... many good ones out there.
Best,
-Matt
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:41 pm
by Kieran Huggins
Roll your own!
