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Approaching a solution to The Blogroll Problem

Sat, 2006-09-02 06:23 — Arancaytar

In the past few weeks, I've repeatedly seen comments by people asking to be included on the blogroll.

Now, the problem with this is that the blogroll can only be administered by a single person. That person is Nick Lewis, and Nick Lewis has a lot to do. Blogrolls for small communities can be managed in spare time. But when it grows as big as this one has, it becomes a bit time-consuming.

The obvious solution is to put the Blogroll not into the hands of one admin, but into the hands of each user - let all of them add their own site to a profile and update it when needed.

Besides, given how extensible the Drupal engine is, it might not be the worst idea to integrate the PBA Blogroll into this site, the PBA HQ, which is after all powered by Drupal.

The following is the result of half a day's messing around with the Drupal API. It's my first attempt, so don't expect to see anything worthwhile - but I've tested what little there is, and it works. A user can register an account, set the URL and site name in their profile, check a box to have it listed in the Blogroll, and the list will update.

Syndication of blogrolls works through Javascript, normally - that of Blogrolling does, at least. This one can also by syndicated by inserting a little Javascript snippet into the blog template.

Here's my post: Blogroll, first version @ Aranfoolcaytar

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