Another plugin for Mango Blog...
If you've got ColdFusion 8, you might like to use its built-in CAPTCHA generation instead of using LylaCaptcha (Mango's default). You can see it in action on this blog.
Simply download the files and unzip them into /components/plugins/user/ - and then activate the plugin from the Add-ons page in the blog admin. Make sure you disable LylaCaptcha as well!
You can change the default settings by selecting CF8 Captcha from the settings page.
As mentioned earlier, this site is powered by Mango Blog. Having played with it a little to get it installed, I thought I'd look at its extensibility...
The plugin framework seems quite simple once the basic concepts have been understood; so I started to write my first plugin.
The documentation mentions a YouTube plugin but as far as I could see it doesn't actually exist, so this seemed an ideal place to start! Simply download the files and unzip them into /components/plugins/user/ - and then activate the plugin from the Add-ons page in the blog admin.
All you need to do to include a video is find out what the video's ID is (it's the string of characters after v= in the YouTube URL), and write the following into your post or page:
[youtube:videoid]
And your video should be included like so:
I may develop this further - maybe add options to specify the global video size for your blog. If you have anything you'd like to see, please let me know!