Making Easy backlink functionality as easy as copy paste
Hello Friends, family and followers! Now that the Daily Selfie Challenge is over, and Papa-Pepper is taking a break, we are back at trying to increase the usability and functionality of our easy backlinks generator on coffeesource.net!
@coffeesource.net is a creation of @kit.andres and @ecoinstant, who are building out new tools upon the Steem Blockchain.
We have a goal to develop a tool that will be very useful to a New Zealander friend and hopefully many others.
Do you all remember that if you type coffeesource.net into your browser you will see a page like this:
Now lets take a look at the easy backlinks generator by searching for my username, @ecoinstant.
This shows us the title and the url of the post, in case we want to find it again.
But this view, which we've had for a while, is not all that useful. I can use those titles and links to create backlinks, but I really would like that to be automated. I want to copy paste!
So I played around in the list output a little bit, seeing if I couldn't figure out how to get those codes to do what I wanted. This is what we started with.
Well, its really not that much, but first I got rid of the tags. We'll need that info, but we don't want them to be visible anymore because they will get in the way of copy/pasting.
Also we decided that we needed to add brackets and parentheses, that way the backlink actually works!
Notice, that the brackets and parentheses are added on the outside of the double curly bracket variable declaration in python.
Also, we threw the link up in the h4 tag, so that we could combine them without a line break and the text would copy perfectly for making a backlink in markup.
Here is the final code:
Lets take a look at the new output! I spent half the day activating hardware virtualization in BIOS so that I could run docker and see what I was doing while changing these codes. Seeing what you are doing is important!
Now these backlinks can be copied and pasted directly into your blog, They will be clickable titles for your articles! Easy Backlinks! I hope this is helpful for many people out there in the world!
Please let me know below how coffeesource.net is working for you, we will continue to update our easy backlinks generator and are working toward a table of contents generator to help out a Kiwi friend of ours - and all users! Show me some love down in the comments and let us know what else you guys would like to see visualized or automated and maybe we can figure it out!
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@ecoinstant this is a great help. Thank you, I can see all my original posts apart from resteemed ones.
There is a point of improvement.
FortiGuard catches your website as "unrated".
I can connect through a VPN.
Will be much better if you solve this issue.
Have a nice day.
FD.
FireDream, thanks for catching this! We will definitely look into that, how to be - 'rated'.
If you are interested, you can login to the utopian.io platform, and make a suggestion post, using coffeesource.net as the git repository! It is in no way necessary, but might be of interest to you to learn how to use utopian. Our open source contributions, even with our own tools, have been very well rewarded so far, and we are eager to prove to the world that open source development is important, and can be rewarded!
@ecoinstant i will sure look. Although I call myself amateur at programing,i am a quick learner.
I have never been participated in an opensource project until now - although I wanted to- i will check if i can find myself any use :)
FD.
I would encourage you to do so! I didn't know how to use git, so I hired a friend of mine to teach me. Now we are both making very good payouts on our utopian articles, and are looking to switch more of our professional work to opensource.
I continue to write blog type articles, but the virtuous cycle of learning, posting and developing with utopian has been very rewarding!
I made a suggestion for solution of your problem at utopian.io platform.
FD.
Can you check your FB messages please
I'm in. Let's chat about it.
Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.
A great contribution, just wanted to know how you are making it different than the tools which are existing.
You can contact us on Discord.
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Thank you very much, and a very good question. We are indeed not trying to imitate other tools, although we could because our primary goal when we started was learning, and imitation can be good in learning.
But instead we are trying to actually fill holes that don't exist. This update was in fact a response to me finding this tool, which lists more posts, although it takes time to load, but they are not copy/pasteable and ready for markup! The next development or two will make it clear, we are turning the backlinks generator into a table of contents generator, which will output a copy/pasteable table of contents!
We have a few other ideas, but always looking for what people haven't invented yet, I am the first one to use a better tool ;p
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@ecoinstant thanks for the info,it will be a great help for us
Thanks for reading! If you have any suggestions while using the tool, please let us know ;)