Vasanth Dharmaraj’s Blog

I have added five more macros to dasBlog Extra. Here is a list of the new macros.

1. FeedBlitz NEW

   Use: <FeedBlitz(“feedid”)|extra%>

   Description: This
   macro generates the FeedBlitz subscription form. The feed id is passed
   as a parameter.

   Template:
   Any template

2. Link Permalink NEW

   Use: <LinkPermalink(“linkText”,
   “linkUrl”)|extra%>

   Description: This
   is a generic macro that lets you create ‘digg this’ like submission
   links. For example if you pass ‘digg this’ as linkText and
   ‘http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=’ as the linkUrl you can
   create
   a link to submit the post to Digg. The macro adds the permalink of the
   post after the linkUrl.

   Template: itemTemplate.blogtemplate

3. Navigator
   Links List NEW

   Use: <NavigatorLinksList()|extra%>

   Description: The
   navigation links in dasBlog is rendered in a table. Too many tables is
   bad. This macro renders the same as HTML list. The advantage of a list
   is that using CSS this can be rendered horizontally as it appears in
   this blog’s top banner.

   Template:
   Any template

4. Single Item
   Include NEW

   Use: <SingleItemInclude(“path
   to file”)|extra%>

   Description: This
   macro includes the contents of the file (passed as parameter) when only
   one item is displayed in a page. I have used this to include AdSence
   ads. These ads show up below the post in Permalink page and comments
   page. But in other aggregated pages like homepage and archive pages it
   does not show up.

   Template:
   Any template

5. Recent
   Comments NEW

   Use: <RecentComments(“count”)|extra%>

   Description: A
   macro to show recent comments. The number of comments to be displayed
   is passed as parameter (count).

   Template:
   Any template

Check this page for the complete list and how to use them. Download it here.

Related posts:

1. dasBlog Extra Macros Update
2. dasBlog Extra Macros
3. Creating Macros for dasBlog
4. FeedFlare: A new FeedBurner feature
5. Per-Category Themes in dasBlog