Updates on the New Blog
As you can see in the previous two blog posts, I have been messing around with various portions of this blog and changing things. There have been a few bug fixes; the biggest bug that was fixed was that raising 404s did not work. Most of the features changes won't be useful to visitors. A preview view has been made that I can use to preview an unpublished blog post that the general public cannot access. Pinging directories, such as Technorati, and pingbacks to other sites now work properly. Some extra settings have been made in my local_settings file. A WMD editor has been added to the admin. Also, I have made a Markdown extension that will allow easy embedding of YouTube videos using an XHTML-compliant object code; the embed codes from YouTube are not XHTML-compliant. I have not checked whether the code will work in Internet Explorer so I can't guarantee that the code will work for you if you are using IE; you should be using a different web browser anyway.
I wrote the extension myself but I took the idea for the syntax of the pattern from Samuel Cormier-Iijima. The example was mention in a comment on another blog. Here is what the Markdown code looks like and then the associated video rendered from the extension.
==youtube(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3LobCY5HE)==
I will work on adding more over the next few days.
