Nobody wants to edit their website templates unless they have to, right? That's what I needed to do in my mangoBlog.

Pretty sleazy, but works like a charm: the Extra HTML Content plugin! It adds HTML (or whatever you enter into the form) into the head and/or body part of your site:

As you might notice, this blog has a new design! No more light blue and white, and no more stupid ads.

Last time I changed layout, I manually edited the templates, which I didn't want to do now. But I did need to add custom javascript to the head of each page, and I have some special pages where I want to add include some of my own cfml. That's why I will be posting 2 new plugins in the near future: cfmlIncluder and Extra HTML Content. Yes, this post is more like a reminder to self :-/

I just downloaded and installed the Konami Code Plugin for mangoBlog by Mark Aplet. It simply adds easter eggs into your (my) mangoBlog; very nice :-) One tip to find the easter egg: CAPITOLS...

Updated: version 1.1.1! For mangoBlog, I created a new plugin called Adsense. The name is actually a bit misleading, since you can use any ad service, as long as you only need to put some html/javascript on the page to have the banners displayed.

What it does is pretty simple: it displays advertisements on your weblog. On my own blog here, you can see them above this full post, and inbetween the excerpts on the index and archive pages.

Wouldn't you like to know how many people have read your blog post? Well, I do like so. In the blog system mangoBlog, which I use for this weblog, this wasn't a default option, and there wasn't a plugin yet to add this.

So, I created the Viewcount plugin. It shows the text "View count: xx" underneath this post...