At the end of the line under each post’s title, I’ve added the word count, thanks to a simple WordPress plugin called Post Word Count. On the post I wrote today, Transcending Limiting Beliefs, it says “4,604 words,” for example. (Quite lengthy, I know. 
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The word counts also appear on printable views, at the end of the info line. Interesting statistics for your readers, I think. This is especially useful on category and archive pages, which only show excerpts.
I’ve created a WordPress plugin called Tweet This, which lets your readers share any of your posts on Twitter by clicking an icon that looks like a bird. It’s active on all Thripp.com and DaytonaState.org blogs! Try it out with the buttons here.
2008-10-08 Update: I removed this feature because it doesn’t work right as the comment count increases… I’ll have to change the math behind it some time.
I’ve added a value metric in the sidebar of every blog! Also, there are stats on the average number of words per post, number of tags and categories, and the number of threaded comments and pingbacks.
My blog is worth $829,191. This development blog is worth $7189. Daytona State College News is valued at $2440. VicAndHelen.com is a measly $15. My mom’s blog is worth $1270, while my cousin’s is just …
Check this out:
That’s what you’ll see on your blog when you’re logged in. You can post right from the home page! Sure, you can load up the write post screen, but that’s slower and more complicated (WordPress MU’s backend is a bit bloated). When you click in a box, the default text is highlighted so you can type right over it. You can save your post as a draft, in which case you’ll be redirected to see it in the list on your drafts page, or you can publish it immediately.
From the home page …
Thripp.com is now 30% faster than I said it was in my previous post. Brilliant Photography gets the biggest chunk of the speed boost, because it was the slowest to start.
All the HTML is now one line. That doesn’t yield a big speed improvement, but it’s just cool. The big thing is that I turned small images into CSS sprites and merged all the JavaScript files into one honker (148KB). That file is compressed with gzip if your browser allows it, and all the current ones do, so the bandwidth hit is only 45KB. Still big, I know, …
Check out the new background for Thripp.com. Instead of light green, it’s a light green subtle mesh pattern.
If you don’t see it on the page, refresh the stylesheet in your browser’s cache by pressing Shift + F5.
The new background is nice on the eyes and more interesting. Enjoy. 
I spent the last six hours working on a redesign for Thripp.com. While I normally deal with programming, this time it was all CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Check this out; the boring old design:
And the bold new vision:
What do you think? I like it a lot. The new header and borders solidify olive green as the Thripp.com color, and the borders are pleasing to the eye for containing the content. The sidebar’s text isn’t so squished, links are nice and bold there, visited links go brighter green, the header is white on dark olive-green, …
I changed the code that displays the tag list for each post. It looks like this now:
<?php $posttags = get_the_tags(); if ($posttags) { echo ‘with these tags: ‘; { foreach($posttags as $tag) { if ($tag->count > 1) echo ‘<a href=”‘.get_tag_link($tag).’” title=”‘.$tag->count.’ entries”>’.$tag->name.’</a>, ‘; else echo $tag->name.’, ‘; } } } ?>
What does that mean? Now, if the post is the only post with that tag, no link is displayed. Your readers’ time will not be wasted any longer. If there’s more than one tagged post, the link is shown like before, but now the number of entries is shown as …
I switched from the new version to the ShareThis Classic version, which opens a new page like this instead of a JavaScript pop-up. I like the new design a lot better because it’s more clean an intuitive. Now, the ShareThis link for all your posts and pages is next to “Printable Version,” instead of being floating above it which didn’t make sense. Enjoy.
I’ve added a “Short URL” listing in printable versions of posts, like this one. As you know, you can click “Printable Version” below any post on the thripp.com network (provided the blog owner hasn’t disabled it), and then you’ll see a print-formatted version with footnoted links. Now, there’s a Short URL listing below “Printed from:”, which looks like this: “Short URL: x.thripp.com/37a5g”. This is a dynamic URL generated using the recently released x.thripp.com API; the same as the Twitter links, but without the http:// prefix, since you don’t have to type that in any web browser. …
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