Karma's Nucleus DevBlog

Over the weekend, I've done some site-management on nucleuscms.org and responded to some of the waiting e-mails.

• Upgraded the forum to phpBB v2.0.10 (security fixes).

• Went through the list of pending approvals for the site list. Also removed a site which now points to a pornographic website (the owner must have abandoned the URL). The link also was on the donators page and welcome post, btw.

  It would be great if we had an automated script (NP_SiteList extended) that could run as a cron job and checks all sites once in a while (5 checks every hour or so). Automated checking could be done as follows:

  1. fetch the page, check if Generator: Nucleus vx is in the page headers
  2. if it's not, check the page for links like ?itemid=xxx, ?archivelist, ...
  3. URLs for which no automated checking could be done end up back on the manual approval pile

  Also, I'ld keep track of the time of last manual and automatic verification and require even the sites that can be validated automatically to be manually verified once every X months.

• Submitted a Nucleus CMS project to Freshmeat. Unfortunately, the Freshmeat staff decided that they already list too much similar projects and denied the request.

• Started investigating Google AdSense. I'll probably add them at the bottom of forum pages and see what the effect is.