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phydeaux3 - delicious2Blogger - Categories for Blogger

"The rewrite on the scripts are done, and now the category system formerly (and unofficially) called Blogger Categories with Del.icio.us are now rechristened...[cue the trumpets] delicious2Blogger. Ok. It’s a lame name but I gotta call it something. I hear all the cool kids just refer to it as d2b.

Some of the new benefits/features of d2b are -

New Features-



• Completely rewritten scripts - majority of code moved to an external javascript file with less muss/fuss in the body of the template
  
• Customization - Virtually everything output by the scripts is now easily customizable, making it easy to convert the output into the language of your choice.
  
• Use of a delicious "Common Tag" - now has the ability to add a common tag to all blog posts. What this means is you can use one delicious account to categorize your blog, but still use that same account for your normal bookmarking. Or use it to categorize mulitple blogs.
  
• Option to provide an RSS feed link for each ’category’, with customizable RSS image and heading
  
• Added an optional and customizable ’read more’ link that can be displayed in the ’notes’ section.
  

  Not New But still a feature

  
  
• All links are shown in blog, visitors never have to leave.
  
• OMG! A category cloud. Yes the highly desirable in blog cloud is available
  
• Setup requires the creation of only one ’category post’ that is dynamic. All new tags added at del.icio.us are displayed dynamically without any further setup.
  
• Everything is given id’s and classes for styling with CSS

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Using Blogger? Want categories on your sidebar? Check out d2b.

What sold me is seeing it in action. Looks pretty darn cool...

Installation is not hard, not slam dunk easy, but not hard. The installation and configuration instructions are easy to follow so there’s no worry there.

Now to get off my butt and give this a try.

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