Add meta keywords to your categories in sNews 1.7

This is a simple mod that you can use to add a keywords meta field to your categories. I have implemented it on my own site here for the last several days and it's working well. This is a fairly easy mod, however, make sure to follow the instructions well, don't use a different field name due to conflicts with existing fields, otherwise you'll have to re-write many existing queries. To ...

Posted on 26 March 2010 | 11:01 pm

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http:BL spam filtering and tagging module for sNews 1.7

Today I'm happy to release the initial version of my sNews SPAM module. This module should help assist you in filtering and managing much of the junk comments in your sNews installation. As of this writing, the module has properly tagged 96.1% of SPAM comments on my site, and tagged 0 false positives. How does it work? It does this by checking the comment poster's IP address against the extensi...

Posted on 26 February 2010 | 11:28 am

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Light-weight related articles mod for sNews 1.7

Here is the next evolution of my related articles/posts/entries mod for sNews CMS. It's very straight forward, all the information needed is contained in the single file, mod.related-light.php. What exactly does this mod do? Basically this mod will take the words within the article title as well as the meta keywords and attempt to find closely related articles to present to your visitors...

Posted on 22 January 2010 | 6:17 pm

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Add a retweet button to your sNews CMS articles and pages

Notice those little twitter "retweet" badges popping up all over? Pssst... look to the right for an example. Face it, Twitter is here to stay and can be a useful tool if used correctly. I wanted to add this to all my posts, but I didn't have any desire to edit every article and insert them, so I've written a dead simple little hack to add a badge on the articles and pages of my sNews ...

Posted on 23 December 2009 | 9:10 am

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Page caching mod for sNews 1.7

Hi again, as promised, I have completed my caching mod for sNews 1.7, and here is my initial release. What the hell is caching and do I need it? Well, basically what we're doing with this mod is saving a page's output into a raw HTML document, and we serve that page until there's a change that would require hitting the database again.

Posted on 11 December 2009 | 7:38 pm

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