Version 1.2.9 of the Blogspot.stack was released on 05 Feb 2020

If you purchased this stack, you can download the latest version via your Paddle account.
If not, you can read more about it here .

Changes, additions and fixes:

• Sorting of categories case-insensitive did not work with PHP7. This has been fixed.
• A new feature has been implemented to speed up the loading of Archive-links. Read below or see 'Smart Archives' tab next to the 'Version History' tab.

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Smart Archives

Smart Archives is a feature to speed up loading of your blog. Its goal is to store archive links locally in a file, and with future requests of your webpage, read that file instead of querying Google again. The file is updated once a day, so one of your website visitors may experience slower loading times, but only when you have more than 500 posts in your archives.

There are some important settings on the server to get this to work.

The Smart Archives feature assumes a subfolder 'files', which normally is created when publishing a Stacks-page:



This folder must be writable by Apache (the webserver).

If you use Panic's Transmit , then you can see if that is the case.
In the following examples, I will show you how that looks and how you can change it:

If Apache is mentioned as 'owner', the folder is writable and you do not have to change anything.

When Apache is mentioned as 'group', you have to click the empty circle for 'group' only, leaving the 'world'-circle empty, and click 'Apply' (do not click 'Apply to Enclosed'):


In my case, 'files' is not writable by Apache, because Apache is not mentioned as 'owner' or 'group', and 'world' may not write:


Click the empty circles under 'Write' to make the folder writable by 'group' and 'world' (i.e. any user), and click 'Apply' (do not click 'Apply to Enclosed'):


The Blogspot.stack checks if the subfolder 'files' is writable or not. If not, it will function normally as before, and pull the archives from Google on each webpage request.

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v8.1
(09 January 2020)

Fix:
- Negative GPS coordinates are now handled correctly.


My ical/ics calendar file viewer ICS Viewer is updated to version 4.0

v4.0
Bug fixes:
- When the connection to MySQL fails, field mapping choices cannot be matched and the selected fields are invalid. But they were still visible as being matched and that was misleading.
- An empty message when no fields could be mapped at the time of a MySQL export.

I have updated my page with Javascript functions for date calculations and added the function stringToDate() which formats a DD[-./]MM[-./]YYYY formatted date to YYYYMMDD for use in Javascript to compare with other dates, for example.

Version 1.2.8 of the Blogspot.stack was released on 28 Nov 2019

If you purchased this stack, you can download the latest version via your Paddle account.
If not, you can read more about it here .

Changes, additions and fixes:

• Google reduced the number of posts returned at a time to 150. Therefore some internals would jump to the wrong set of posts and so skip some posts that would then not be visible in the Archives-list.
• An error with an unused variable has been fixed.

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v8.0
(25 October 2019)

Added:
- For retrieving a date from a file name, where there's only YYYY-MM, you can now enter a default day in the 'Date/Time original'-field for Day.

Changed:
- When geotagging a movie file, only XMP-group GPS-tags are used.

Due to a hardware crash last night of the VM where my virtual server is, eh was, running on, and a backup that occurred to be invalid, some recent files and images are now gone forever, unless one of the two failing SSD's can be recovered tomorrow.

So if you want to download something, and the file the link is pointing to, is missing, let me know.

I am now trying to get as much as I have saved back online.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Marc

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v7.9
(25 August 2019)

Fixes:
- GPS data is now present in GPS, XMP and EXIF.