Joe has been running a Righthaven blacklist utility which has been quite handy. If you don’t know why Joe would spend his time creating that web utility, or I would create a plugin to do it, see this. I spent some of last weekend and this weekend making a blacklist utility for Windows Live Writer. Today I finished up creating the MSI installer and have a preliminary version (0.1.0) to post into the wild. Currently the blacklist is hardcoded into the plugin, the actual version (1.0.0) is going to support web updates to the blacklist, along with an additional feature of grey listing. The grey list will make sure that “no follow” tags are attached to any link that has a domain that matches one in the list. The default state just puts up a message box with the offending anchor text but the post will still succeed. You can change this by checking the error on post check box in the options. You can add your own URLs to the user list. Play with it, tell me if you find any bugs or issues you would like me to change or features you would like me to add. I’m going to create a projects website tomorrow with support contact information. For now just use this contact form. WLW URL Blacklist Plugin. Update: I fixed the msi download. It's now in a zip. It appears the mime-type for the msi is wrong. I've tried changing the htaccess but it is still broken. I am just going to use the .zips from now on. It cut the file size in half anyway. Continue reading →