Sun, May 8, 2016 at 12:16:02 pm
Image via Shutterstock We have some new code that tries to prevent fake news sites from being promoted at LGF. If someone posts a link to a fake news site (like abcnews​.com​.co) in a comment, when you click on it you’ll see a warning message that it’s a fake news site. ...

Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:13:05 pm
Image via Shutterstock It's been a while since I posted the source code for our LGF Pages bookmarklet, and it's actually undergone some major changes recently, so let's remedy that omission right now, shall we? The biggest change: all of the code has been rewritten to use native Javascript, doing away with ...

Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:51:50 pm
Image via Shutterstock After adding the new feature to LGF Pages that lets you capture HTML code automatically, I realized it exacerbated a problem that had always been in the LGF Pages posting window; if you tried to select more than about 8K of text, you see an error message saying ...

Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:47:18 pm
Image via Shutterstock We have a new feature to announce for registered LGF Pages contributors! You'll have to install the bookmarklet to take advantage of it, so if you haven't done that yet, hover over the "Create A Page" button at the top of the right sidebar for a popup dialog ...

Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 5:37:09 pm
I still have a lot of work to do to completely finish the Marvelous LGF Mobile Makeover, but I'm pleased to report that you can now post to LGF Pages from your mobile phone, in a form optimized for the small screen. All the features of our LGF Pages window work ...

Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:31:23 pm
Here, have a bookmarklet that counts characters and words in selected text on a web page: javascript:(function(){var a=(document.selection?document.selecti on.createRange().text:document.getSele ction()).toString();alert(a.length?"Ch aracters: "+a.length+"nWords: "+a.replace(/s{2,}/g," ").split(" ").length:"No text selected.")})(); I bashed this out today because I wanted to easily be able to see how many words were in a given article; I used to copy and paste ...

Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:33:43 pm
If you post LGF Pages, you may notice that your LGF Pages posting window is nagging you to install yet another update for the bookmarklet. This isn't a bug fix or anything urgent, just some internal code improvements that will further refine the "separate loader and function library" design of ...

Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 10:18:32 am
Oops! A bug crept into the new LGF Pages bookmarklet code last night, affecting Firefox and Chrome users; the window would pop open but get stuck at the "Loading" screen. The problem is now fixed, and it was something very simple -- when testing a variable with "typeof," the keyword "undefined" ...

Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:48:15 pm
That magnified image of the code means there's a new version of the LGF Pages "Create A Page" bookmarklet tonight, Pages authors. I'm stoked about this one, because I finally worked out a way to make the part you install in your browser nothing more than a loader for the rest ...

Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 4:38:26 pm
Image via Shutterstock There's a new version of the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet tonight with a very nice new feature: you no longer need to turn off popup blocking in your browser's settings in order to use the bookmarklet. This is probably the most common cause of confusion for new LGF users ...

Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:14:17 pm
There's a new version of the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet tonight, with better support for automatically embedding video and SoundCloud audio from most websites -- making it incredibly simple to add video and audio to your posts. To install the new version in your browser, right-click on your existing bookmarklet (if ...

Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:09:32 pm
LGF Pages: Your Personal Blog LGF Pages is a fast, powerful blogging system that lets you create posts with embedded images, videos, and tweets, schedule posts, automatically tweet when you post something, and many other features. Getting Started The Basics Some Sophistication Additional Enhancements Things That Happen When You Publish a Page Getting StartedBack to top Pages are ...

Sun, May 26, 2013 at 5:35:39 pm
On weekends my inner code monkey runs free, and that dastardly marauding primate has produced a new version of the LGF Pages "Create a Page" bookmarklet again tonight. The new feature: better handling of pop-up blockers. All the major web browsers are installed these days with pop-up window blocking enabled, and ...

Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:57:09 pm
We've got a new version of the LGF Pages bookmarklet today, with better browser compatibility and a new feature: when you open the bookmarklet on any page at the NPR website that has a "download" link for their MP3 audio, the bookmarklet will sense its presence and automatically create the ...

Sat, May 18, 2013 at 2:39:59 pm
I know, right? Another one, just a day later? But this one actually will make it possible for me to update the types of auto-embed content the LGF Pages bookmarklet can identify -- without making you re-install the bookmarklet to take advantage of the new features. When you open this ...

Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:26:40 pm
I'm about to sling some code at you here, so watch out. There's a new improved version of the LGF Pages bookmarklet, and if you have an LGF account you can install it by deleting the old one (if you already installed it) from your browser's bookmarks bar, then dragging ...

Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:25:14 am
In last night's thread about the new features in our LGF Pages posting bookmarklet, several people mentioned that the Chrome browser was blocking the window from opening. Here's how to fix that problem: [Item List] And you're done! Chrome will now allow the LGF Pages bookmarklet to open a new window (or ...

Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:50:27 pm
We have a great new feature to announce tonight: when you click the LGF Pages bookmarklet on any web page that contains a YouTube or Vimeo video, the bookmarklet now automagically grabs that video's information and embeds it in your post. The LGF Pages bookmarklet could always do this if you ...

Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:53:43 pm
At LGF, we've long had the ability to schedule our front page articles for future posting, and now the new version of our LGF Pages posting app has the same ability. (In fact, it's more polished than the feature in our admin app; I'm a bit jealous.) First, if it wasn't ...

Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:14:07 pm
Today we have a really nifty new feature to announce, appearing now in your LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. Look to the bottom left of the window and you'll now see a button labeled "Image Library," which, if you click, will bring up the following dialog box -- a miniaturized version ...

Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:39:27 pm
A new feature today: you can very easily embed audio tracks and playlists from the cool SoundCloud website (including a lot of music by well-known artists) in LGF comments or LGF Pages. This feature works the same way as embedding videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Comedy Central, or The Onion. To embed SoundCloud ...

Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:55:51 pm
We have some new features to announce, designed to make it much simpler to place embedded tweets from Twitter in comments and LGF Pages. All you have to do to insert an embedded tweet is paste in the URL of the tweet's 'Details' page at Twitter. For example, here's the page ...

Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:24:48 pm
Here's a very handy Javascript bookmarklet I whipped up yesterday, when I realized I was often searching the LGF archives for phrases on other sites; for example, when I was writing the post about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, I wanted to search LGF for my previous ...

Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:47:03 pm
This isn't a huge change, but I know that unless I explain what's up, some people will have questions so ... here's the deal. I've decided to eliminate the "alternate" method of posting LGF Pages -- clicking the "Show top rated Pages" link at the top, then clicking "submit a link." Clicking ...

Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:58:33 pm
We have a very cool new feature in LGF Pages today; to help you easily pick appropriate tags for your Pages, we now have a magical "Suggest Tags" button that will analyze the text of your post and extract the relevant keywords, then show you a list of alphabetically sorted ...