Progress is being made on the keyword index — in fact, I did a full install and added the code to my templates, and verified that it works just as it should. Unfortunately, I also discovered while testing that as it requires the keywords to have been entered into my entries in a specific way, I need to do a lot of work on fine-tuning the keywords before it will be a useable option. So, with somewhere over three thousand entries to tweak, it’ll be a while before I can actually get that up and running. Still, it was encouraging to see it working, even if it was a little borked.
In the meantime, as well as I had to go back to static rendering for my website, I implemented a feature that I had in the past, but had disappeared some time ago. Thanks to some MySQL wizardry from Adam Kalsey, I now have ‘related entries’ listed in the sidebar for each individual entry (this does mean that the linklog now longer appears on the individual entries, but I didn’t want to make the sidebar stretch on too far). The code already does a fairly good job of picking out similar entries to whichever one is currently being displayed, but the accuracy should improve as I go through and fix the keywords for all the entries on my site.
Just another fun way to go bouncing around and exploring through the years of babbling I’ve amassed here.
“Voodoo People (Edit)” by Prodigy, The from the album Voodoo People (1995, 4:07).