Peppermint Tea A civilised collection of third party plugins for Mint tag:pepperminttea.co.uk,2005:577c89a0756cce9293249cc3eacbb677 Textpattern 2009-06-17T12:11:38Z Sam Brown http://pepperminttea.co.uk/ This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Sam Brown 2009-04-23T09:34:33Z 2009-04-23T09:34:33Z [Beta Test] Errors Pepper tag:pepperminttea.co.uk,2009-04-21:577c89a0756cce9293249cc3eacbb677/40a977cc3d70c72db06e7512baabfcf6 Till Kruess’ latest up-and-coming Pepper is a good one and I am surprised it has gone so long without this one being pined for.

Pepper that helps tracking down dead links.

Errors Pepper

An Error tracking Pepper for Mint 2.0+, this supersedes Jeff Miller’s Error Tracker Pepper that was released in September 2005 for Mint 1, yes, Mint really is that old!

This super simple Pepper will track your 403 Forbidden, 404 Not Found & 410 Gone pages that get tracked by Mint allowing you easy access to view which of your error pages gets visited the most often and where they are getting linked from.

Download a beta copy of Errors v0.01 – Errors Documentation

If you have any suggestions or issues don’t hesitate to contact Till.

]]> Sam Brown 2008-11-25T10:02:16Z 2008-11-25T10:04:44Z [New Pepper] TwitterCounter tag:pepperminttea.co.uk,2008-11-25:577c89a0756cce9293249cc3eacbb677/5f1745f1dd2970300d4af43df953d5df A second brand new Pepper by Dutch developer Joost de Valk brings your Twitter stats to your Mint install via the Twitter Counter API that Joost helped create.

“This Pepper will display TwitterCounter statistics within Mint.”

TwitterCounter Pepper is a great way to check out your Twitter stats and predicated followers and growth.

]]> Sam Brown 2008-11-25T09:58:32Z 2008-11-25T10:01:58Z [New Pepper] Technorati tag:pepperminttea.co.uk,2008-11-25:577c89a0756cce9293249cc3eacbb677/c34ba57e0795b53bd7891117705e6a52 This is the first of two new Pepper for Mint by Dutch developer Joost de Valk.

“This Pepper shows linking blogs from Technorati, and your current Technorati Authority score.”

The Technorati Pepper is definitely a Pepper worth checking out if Technorati is important to you and your site.

]]> Sam Brown 2008-09-03T07:44:56Z 2008-09-03T07:47:41Z Google Chrome UA007 Detection tag:pepperminttea.co.uk,2008-09-02:577c89a0756cce9293249cc3eacbb677/a855287f2c2b81f8e58eca271f450093 Update madness a-hoy! Shaun has just updated the User Agent 007 Pepper to v2.05 which now includes Google Chrome browser detection.

Best get all those Mint installs updated post-haste.

]]> Sam Brown 2008-08-08T08:25:18Z 2008-08-08T08:25:26Z [New Pepper] Expose - XML API tag:pepperminttea.co.uk,2008-08-07:577c89a0756cce9293249cc3eacbb677/513080797030f4b92d2b82fb9eec973f Adam Livesley the creator of the Firemint extension for Firefox has just released a new Pepper called Expose.

expose pepper opens up mint to provide a simple xml api so your stats can be queried / viewed by a remote client (like firemint).

While this is a great little API extension for Firemint to use, that isn’t to say that it couldn’t be used for anything else. Will be keeping a close eye on how this one develops, be sure to check out the beta version.

]]> Sam Brown 2008-07-13T21:13:29Z 2008-07-13T21:56:38Z MSN Live Search Referrer SPAM tag:pepperminttea.co.uk,2008-07-13:577c89a0756cce9293249cc3eacbb677/396f951ce28b5aed580a9a73b74abd54 Recently Microsoft’s Live Search has been causing some unnecessary and unwanted referrer SPAM in several of my Mint installs, this was confirmed recently by others in this Mint Forum thread.

I’m not 100% sure when it started, but I have been seeing referrers from search.live.com for some strange and very generic keywords, things like “article”, “design”, and “sites”. Visiting the referring URL returned no link back to any of my sites.

There is a solution

Visiting the Advanced Preferences in Mint (/mint/?preferences&advanced) allows you to stop recording activity from specified IP ranges, I have added the following to the list (that already includes an IP range that Shaun previously identified as a problem with MSN Search):

  • 65.55.109.*
  • 65.55.110.*
  • 65.55.232.*

I have to say I would love to know how and why MSN Live Search is doing this, I have hundreds of these records across my Mint installs. If you are worried about this problem yourself be sure to keep an eye on the Most Recent Searches tab and I would definitely recommend installing Secret Crush which will help you identify the referring IP.

Do let me know if you notice this problem yourself and if your IP ranges include anything different.

]]> Sam Brown 2008-05-08T09:34:44Z 2008-05-08T09:34:44Z A Mint Updating Spree Awaits tag:pepperminttea.co.uk,2008-05-07:577c89a0756cce9293249cc3eacbb677/ad82ca07a80cf635c61fbabfc9115bfb Hold on tight, this is a big one! Mr Inman has released a monster update to the Peppermill that includes Mint and a bunch of his Pepper, so clear a space in your schedule and get updating.

Updates:

Some Notes:

The Mint update includes changes to the default Vanilla and Chocolate styles, so this update will require not only the new app folder to uploaded but the styles folder as well.

A new command was created in v2.16. /mint/?recover will repair Pepper data that was previously said to be beyond repair.

Also be sure to remove all of your old Pepper folders from your server (peppername_old) to avoid any further issues.

Roll on automatic updating ala Till’s Sergeant Pepper! I just spent the last 45 minutes updating 10 Mint installs and 33 Pepper. :/

]]> Till 2008-04-08T16:13:28Z 2008-04-08T16:29:07Z Sergeant Pepper (Beta) tag:pepperminttea.co.uk,2008-04-08:577c89a0756cce9293249cc3eacbb677/3c69a803a6ec9fa3484712cd9f8a5599 I picked up an old suggestion and created a Pepper that updates installed and loads new Pepper.

Currently it only supports my Pepper, but we’re working on Peppermill connection.

You can download Sergeant Pepper and report issues at my site.

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