Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free!
Vanilla runs on MySQL and PHP. It is a very weight (386 KB only!) and compact yet powerful forum creating and managing platform. It is easy to use and maintain once installed.
Its features include RSS 2.0/ATOM feeds of Discussions, Categories and the whole forum. It has an inbuilt WYSIWYG editor for comments and discussions. Various different add-ons and themes are also available for it.
I am introducing a new feature in my website called ‘Anunay’s Chat‘ where the visitors can chat with me whenever I am available online. This feature is a crude AJAX and JQuery based chat interface. It saves the chat logs as a (X)HTML file that can be deleted. It runs on PHP and does not require MySQL to function.
The styling of the chat interface is done by CSS. The files needed for the system are very compact and it fits into about 7 KB. The source is attached at the bottom of the article. (I love Open Source.)
Today, I will show you how to use the ‘Permalinks’ feature in Wordpress. ‘Permalinks’ stand for Permanent Links to your posts. This feature can well be configured using the Permalinks Settings Option. It can be used to create a new URL structure, minimal or fancy looking or maybe a whacky word can be formed in the URL itself.
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink.
To configure the Permalinks goto the Permalink Box under the Settings tab. Go through. You will encounter a page displaying various permalink types including the default one for you to choose.
%year%
The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004
%monthnum%
Month of the year, for example 05
%day%
Day of the month, for example 28
%hour%
Hour of the day, for example 15
%minute%
Minute of the hour, for example 43
%second%
Second of the minute, for example 33
%postname%
A sanitized version of the title of the post.
%post_id%
The unique ID # of the post, for example 423
%category%
A sanitized version of the category name.
%tag%
A sanitized version of the tag name.
%author%
A sanitized version of the author name.
You can use the above mentioned snippets to create your own Permalinks. You may even try cool ones like,
/its%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/its123/
/shownumber%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/shownumber123/
/this/is/number/%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/this/is/number/123
You can also create many cool and trendy custom Permalinks as you like.
Do Not Forget to post your cool and wacky Permalink as a comment. (Claim Bragging Rights!)
