http://sweat365.com/forum/ Forums Tag: posts en Mon, 20 May 2013 08:03:45 +0000 http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/145#post-2975 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:57:41 +0000 Brad Hefta-Gaub 2975@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>katmat, we'll look at it. I suspect that it may be the case that a search engine robot might cause those spikes.</p> <p>So maybe the search engine scanned our home page. Saw a post from you, added your blog to a list of blogs to scan. Then it went to your first page, saw a link to a page it never saw before and goes to the next one. </p> <p>Depending on how the search engine is coded, it will either look like "direct" because it had no referrer, or internal because it listed the last page as a referrer.</p> <p>We try to filter out traffic from known search engines so that it doesn't give the false impression that someone is reading every blog post. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/145#post-2974 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:18:08 +0000 kathy 2974@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Hi, I have noticed, over the last few months, crazy high spikes in my views. I see the catagories of "Direct Link", "Internal Link", "Blog Home" and few members pages as well as random web searches listed. However, most of the time the views are listed under direct or internal tallys. please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't these types of (or at least the internal ones) list the blogger's page and second, are they looking at one entry then clicking to the next entry to accumulate such high numbers? or is it all inclusive no matter how many entries they view? Please shed some light on this confused soul if you can so I don't feel so "watched"! Thanks </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/188#post-632 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:50:29 +0000 Anonymous 632@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Thanks, looks great! </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/188#post-630 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:21:26 +0000 KarlOnSea 630@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>New Sweat365 motto:<br /> "We achieve miracles on a daily basis, but the impossible takes a little longer"</p> <p>;-)</p> <p>Thanks for the quick response! </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/188#post-629 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:54:14 +0000 Brad Hefta-Gaub 629@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Fixed it. Yep... it was related to our change to add forum posts and comments. Now it's working correctly. If you see any other problems please let us know. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/188#post-628 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:16:49 +0000 Brad Hefta-Gaub 628@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Oops... there is definitely a bug. I just saw this too from the dashboard.</p> <p>I don't know if you noticed, but we added forum posts and comments to the recent posts and recent comments lists. I am pretty sure that the problem is related to that change. We will look at it.</p> <p>In the mean time, it appears as if the recent posts list is correct on the <a href="http://sweat365.com" rel="nofollow">http://sweat365.com</a> home page... but broken in other places. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/188#post-626 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:54:39 +0000 KarlOnSea 626@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>. . . but are you seeing a list of *your* posts, or mine? </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/188#post-624 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:38:01 +0000 Anonymous 624@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Nope, I am getting the same thing... maybe it's a bug. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/188#post-623 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:39:28 +0000 KarlOnSea 623@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Hi -<br /> Since the weekend, when I view my Sweat365 home page, the Recent Posts list (under the news from around Sweat365) only has MY posts visible. I'm not sure if this means that no-one else is posting, everyone is just seeing my posts, or if whoever logs in, they see only their own recent posts listed.<br /> Karl. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/170#post-570 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:29:39 +0000 KarlOnSea 570@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Now I'm really intrigued! And will start to put more images into my posts . . . ;-) </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/170#post-568 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:16:49 +0000 Brad Hefta-Gaub 568@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Actually Karl, we recently made a change to fix a bug in referer URLs that were not correctly showing some referers.</p> <p>Those image referers you are seeing are users who did an Image search on google, like what they saw and clicked on the "see image in it's original page"... So those are legit visitors... they're just getting to your blog in an unusual way. </p> <p>The bug we fixed was incorrectly placing these referers into the "internal" category. Now we correctly show you where those readers really came from.</p> <p>Oh, and now I know why that crazy 4th of July post is so popular... apparently a lot of people are searching for images if Shetland Ponies. Go figure. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/170#post-564 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:30:20 +0000 KarlOnSea 564@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Hi -<br /> I think Google's image crawler is getting through the stats filter - I've seen a big upturn in my stats with the referrer images.google.[com, .co.uk, .hu, .jp, .co.nz, etc]/imgres</p> <p>I think it's accounting for about half to 2/3 of the reported traffic!</p> <p>Karl. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/153#post-508 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:32:14 +0000 bhayden 508@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the info. I understand the themes need to be a template and as they say, "you can't please all the people all the time." Blogspot allows a little more customization via access to the html. But I know you're concerned with security issues surrounding that but I hope it will open up a little bit more as you're able to work on parsing routines to verify safe code.</p> <p>I also realize that Sweat365 is just getting started. You've done a great with the basic framework and super job with enhancements. The documentation is a bit sparse but I know you all have a zillion other things that are more pressing at the moment and the whole crew has been fantastic about answering questions. I'm the sort that kind of enjoys seeing just poking around anyway :+).</p> <p>How about a Sweat365 Wiki so we users can share the neat little tricks we learn or maybe just start a topic with a question and see what solutions other folks have adopted? A couple I have are:<br /> What's a Page Slug?<br /> If you try a new theme can you switch back without loosing any of the original formating? </p> <p>Would it be a lot of work to implement the ability to choose a theme on a per Page basis? I'm thinking that stuff like a Training Analysis page begs for a very different layout than a blog. And if you were to implement blogs by category it would be nice to at least use different banner images that are related to that category. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/153#post-507 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:44:20 +0000 Brad Hefta-Gaub 507@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Bernie,</p> <p>Great questions... let me give a little insight into Themes... first of all, we don't write the themes, most of them are built by generous people in the open source world. We have included themes that are known to be popular, that we personally think look good, and that are considered "full featured"... since theme writers can take shortcuts and not include all the great features available to our core platform (based on WordPress)... After we find a theme we do our best to verify that its safe (with code review and testing) and that it really works (more testing) and then we usually have to modify it to support features like Avatars, Custom Theme Headers, and more.</p> <p>There are definitely things on the list that some of our bloggers (you and Kate for example) notice if they are missing, like Comments on Pages and Edit Buttons. There are also times when we have to fix more complicated issues like widgets not working correctly, or browser rendering issues. Anyway, I don't want to sound like I'm making excuses, just giving a little bit of context.</p> <p>The point is we have a standard list of features we look for in these themes, and we're trying to make all of the themes as consistent as possible.</p> <p>With respect to "page menus" this is an area where themes tend to vary widely. Our "policy" is to try to make sure that if the theme supports tabbed pages, that we test that it actually works correctly. In some cases we've seen bugs (thanks again to Kate for reporting some of these) where the tabs don't correctly show all the pages. But some themes don't really have tabbed pages, and so in that case we don't currently plan to take the step of adding it.</p> <p>Don't get me wrong, I am not saying, "you get what you get"... but instead I'm saying, think of themes as an artistic expression of the original designer of the theme. We try to do a good job of fairly representing that artistic expression, without significant modification.</p> <p>That being said, if you feel there is a theme that has a partially working "page" tab menu, then please tell us about it and we will look into fixing the issue.</p> <p>We will fix Autumn Concept to have edit buttons (links), that's an obvious change. </p> <p>Thanks again for the feedback. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/153#post-506 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:17:32 +0000 bhayden 506@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Brad,<br /> I spent some time playing around with other themes and it appears that the edit button for posts (no. 4 in your reply above) isn't part of Autumn theme. Or if it is it's well hidden. I noticed in the other themes that sometimes it's just an icon off in space and other themes actually say Edit.</p> <p>Looking as Lisa's blog and playing with the themes it would appear that some support more than the Home and About tabs in the header. Lisa for example has several that point to some of her pages. I created a new Page and it was automagicly added to the header tabs. Is there a way to control the location/order/visibility of the tabs? </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/155#post-504 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:48:16 +0000 Brad Hefta-Gaub 504@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>These are all great ideas. We're looking into various "explore" features... so we'll keep these in mind. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/155#post-502 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:10:36 +0000 gardenmentor 502@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>I like the sort option! </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/155#post-499 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:29:17 +0000 KarlOnSea 499@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>You've increased the length of the 'recent posts' list. How about adding an option to sort this by time (most recent at the top, like it is now), or view it as a tag cloud?<br /> Karl. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/153#post-498 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:25:37 +0000 bhayden 498@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>Marking a post as Private is something I've played with and it has it's place. I was trying to create a catagory called "Hidden" for which I would have more control over when and where it was shown. It's not so much that I'd like a special catagory but more the issue of control over all catagories. In this simple case I wanted to show the post in the text widget but not in the blog. I bet changing the date on the post to something like the year 2000 would move it to the end of the list and function as a work around in this instance.</p> <p>I'm aware of pages but haven't played with them yet. I'd actually written a somewhat lengthy reply to your news of the week with respect to logbook ideas that included a reference pages along with a couple other possible approaches to the logbook. Unfortunately when I hit the Send Post button it vanished into the ether and "backup" didn't restore it. I was sort of hoping it would miraculously appear after some time but I guess I'll have to try and rewrite it. Never seen it happen here but it was common on another forum I belong to. In fact it was common enough that most frequent contributors knew to select all and copy before hitting Submit. It was some bug about how long you were in edit mode.</p> <p>It looks like there's several approaches that can be taken and I suspect the "right" answer will be different for different people. I have in my mind that a Calendar hook with iCal and/or WCAP compatibility would be the ultimate solution for a logbook and an Annual Training Plan. I think it would provide the best offline editing and the ability to sync with a laptop and Palm type devices.</p> <p>It's really great to see you're already thinking about coaches and team support! It seems like you're project is very database centric which in my opinion is really what this is all about. </p> http://sweat365.com/forum/topic/153#post-497 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:22:27 +0000 Brad Hefta-Gaub 497@http://sweat365.com/forum/ <p>One more thing Bernie... have you checked out pages yet? Pages are similar to posts except that they don't have categories, don't get include in the "posts list", and can have hierarchical URL structures. </p> <p>But they do have comments (if you want) just like posts.</p> <p>So you could make a page that displays your log book items (just like training peaks) and you could even make that the front page of your blog. You could then make pages underneath that page (using the page parent option in Edit Page) to make a directory structure like you're describing.</p> <p>Anyway, pages definitley aren't the same as posts... but they have some nice characteristics and may be more appropriate for some of what you're looking for. </p>