Auto-login / B4L Customisation - 1 comment

Anyone with an account on this site - that is to say, a login, that gives them the ability to subscribe to a newsletter, and use our widgets on their own sites - will soon be able to take advantage of new facilities that will make Bloggers4Labour more useful and customisable: for example, the ability to say that they'd rather 5 recent posts appeared on our front page, rather than the long-standing 3 - or indeed none at all.

Basically, meaningful user preferences will exist for the first time. All you'll need to do is set up an account if you haven't already, then log in once. The cookie we send you will keep you logged-in for a year. Sure, I will gain the ability to steal your credit card records, take out mortagages in your name, and watch you through your webcam, just like in Sandra Bullock's The Net, but most importantly, you won't have to re-login every 30 minutes whenever you, say, want to add a blog post to a B4L-managed clip-blog, or maintain your personal favourites/links list, hint, hint.

As an aide-mémoire, a new box with a (currently) grey border will now appear in your B4L sidebar. Please click the link to log in if you aren't already, because the more people who do, the more it's worth my while to customise the site according to your preferences.

By the way, if you have any ideas for customisation, please let me know, or come along to the meeting on Monday.

Update: I'm afraid I clumsily broke some pages in the process - these were all fixed by approximately 3.10 pm today.