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99 New Images for the Serendipity Karma voting plugin

nospam@example.com (Don Chambers) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:32:55 -0700

In my 2008 list of new year objectives I expressed an interest in continuing to contribute toward Serendipity plugins when I could. A great deal of effort has been spent updating Serendipity's karma voting plugin resulting in the release of version 2.0 and I contributed four simple yellow/green and yellow/red star images, in three different sizes to that version. I have also installed the plugin here at Optional Necessity and will be using it from this point forward.

The Serendipity karma voting plugin is a "core" plugin, meaning it is distributed with every Serendipity release version. This also means we don't want to overload it with too many images that bloat the overall plugin size. So I chose not to include a lot of other images that I created for the plugin, but they are now available for download to really make the graphical version of the new karma voting plugin shine!

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New serendipity comment format

nospam@example.com (Don Chambers) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:31:01 -0700

I have styled most aspects of serendipity templates. Single and multi-entry pages, static pages, sidebars, headers, footers and even archives. However, in the back of my mind, and in various partially coded versions, has been the idea of a different format for entry comments than what I have typically used. I have played around with odd vs. even comments, different styles for author comments and several different methods of showing comment meta information, but none of my experimentation fully accomplished my objectives. Serendipity itself also presents a rare functionality - threaded display of comments and the ability to reply to a specific comment, or delete a specific comment if logged in as an administrator. I think I finally arrived at a great looking new comment format for my serendipity templates.

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Better search results with meta details

nospam@example.com (Don Chambers) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:24:01 -0700

Effective use of a page title element, meta description and meta keyword tags can lead to significantly better search results for your site's content. Achieving better results in any Serendipity blog is easy thanks to the Serendipity "HTML Meta-Tags" plugin.

I have recently completed modifications to version 0.8 of this plugin with the assistance of the Serendipity user and developer community. These new and modified features unleash the hidden power of a plugin that may make the difference between an entire Serendipity weblog, or specific blog entry, being found by the masses and one that is rarely, if ever, viewed by anyone other than its author.

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