Installing BRPS in classic templates

Someone asked how to install in classic templates, so I checked up and found the code provided from BRPS wasn't working. There is an issue with HTML, so I updated the code. It should be working in classic templates.

The question is where to install those three lines. My suggestion is

At sidebar

Find the following and insert the code before:

</div></div>
<!-- End #sidebar -->

The related list will show up at the bottom of sidebar.

If you want to move the list up, just observe the code before these two lines, you can see each gadget of sidebar is a block of code, put the BRPS code between, usually above <h2> will do.

At post end

Find the following and insert the code before:

  </div>
  <!-- End .post -->

Hope this helps.

Planning Version 2

Firstly to clarify, nothing is getting started, don't be excited.

Here is some ideas:

• Label Exclusion [group]
• List Order: alphabetical, oldest-to-newest, newest-to-oldest, etc. [blog]
• Preview thumbnail
• Score Indicator (bar)
• Score Threshold: Absolute value, percentage
• Layouts: Plain text list, vertical, horizontal
• Authenticaion
• Open ID authentication: No more key (or just OAuth?)
• Support private blogs: AuthSub or OAuth
• Label Weighting and Content Weighting
• View Count
• Click Count
• View and Click Statistics
• Popular Posts based on Views and Clicks
• Non-single Post Page Allowed

I am asking you for help if you would like to see these above. If you know Python, JavaScript, or webdesign and you are willing to spend time to develop version 2, leave me a message.

I have no schedule to see those happening, so please don't expect to see version 2. I might or might not to code for it if no one joins. Unless someone is with me doing development, it's most likely, version 2 wouldn't be born.

If I start, it will be developing in another GAE app and accept few testers. Once it's done, that app will be deleted and move back to brps since brps is a short app id. The code is still Open Source and the service will still free and you still won't see any ads on your blogs or links to here if  client script runs successfully.

The design process will be open for discussion somewhere (the group, I think) and the code will be still at Google Code same repo.

I guess that's all, now it's your move.

Visualization of BRPS Code

This post is off-topic but I feel it's fun to share. The following videos are generated by Gource. They visualize how the code of BRPS were committed.

BRPS had stayed in one of my repos, the first one is a extraction version of that repo. As of April 2009, it moved into its only repo, and the second video shows the activities in its repo after.

Go to video page on YouTube

Go to video page on YouTube

If this kind of video catch your eyes, here are more of mine.

[Apology] Blocking by mistake

As of 1/6/2010, I modified the Blocking Policy, I added

"Failed installation/script removed blogs — Script installed without key or incomplete installation. Blogs have removed the script. (Added on 1/6/2010)"

At beginning of this year, many blogs have reach 3-month reviewing period. So, I started to review those blogs which haven't got accepted or blocked. I found out many of them are not using Key or installed the script incorrectly causing BRPS not working. I don't bother to notify the blogs owners, I don't have that free time to do so. Besides, the error message has been showing up for more than a month, how could a blogger not checking there own posts after publishing?

The second part of the addition, "Blogs have removed the script," it's also true that many blogs have removed the script after installing. I see no harm to block them since they don't use BRPS anymore, by blocking them so they won't show up after 3 month for reviewing.

But I made a huge mistake, because I check HTML source code in home page. If you install the script into your Template, not by adding a new HTML/JavaScript gadget, then the script wouldn't show up, they would only show up in a single post page.

I forgot that part, therefore I must have blocked some. By the time I found out, I had no idea how many had been blocked by that mistake.

So, if you install the code into your Template, just go ahead to ask for unblocking. I will check up as soon as possible. (I will still review first to check your content)

Sincere apology to you.
Sorry, again!

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I have put ads on website and this blog. Don't worry, your related list will never ever be contaminated.

Need your idea!

I believe I can claim that BRPS is a relative stable app now. So I think I have to move on, find my next target to work on.

So, here, I am asking for your idea. It can be anything to help you blog, another widget perhaps? Or you can jump out of this Blogger thing, anything could help you on anything as long as it is programmable. Hey, I do coding, remember?

Please do not be shy to respond with this! Shout out your ideas, I will do the rest for you!

And it will be free and open source!

The first donation to BRPS

Be honest, I didn't expect to receive any donation at the time I put on the donation button. I silently put it on website and blog without writing about it in any place. About 8 hours ago, I received the first donation to BRPS.

I am very thankful for the support from this donor, Deborah Swain, go check out her blog, Living in Rome.

If you also want to donate, please go to this newly created donation page and please read the notice before you donating.

Thank you for reading this!

PS. this would be the only post about donation and donor. I posted it because it's the first.