Adventures in TypePad Hacking

Earlier in the week Easton Ellsworth of BusinessBlogWire gave Search Marketing Gurus a BlogTip and sent a few new readers our way.  Easton also gave me a tip - to permalink the titles for the entries we write.

I wondered how I missed that when I first set up the blog, and did one of the palm to forehead "doh!" motions and went on my way to TRY and fix that issue, easy & right away.  HA!  Not so easy.  I searched high and low and couldn't figure out how the heck to get the entry titles to link.  I searched TypePad's Knowledge Base - to no avail.

Finally I went out to the trusty old Search Engine Google and did a search on "How do I make an entry title a permalink in TypePad", first few results I saw above the fold weren't anything close to what I needed but  I scrolled down to result #8 and bingo!  I've now been introduced to the world of TypePadHacks.org.

Warning, most of these hacks aren't for the basic blogger.  You do have to have a bit of understanding of HTML and Templates and how they all work together.  You also have to be using the Advanced Templates to implement this hack.

I just wonder though, why TypePad/Six Apart makes it so darn tough to link your entry titles, in my opinion that should be just a "yes/no" option when you set it up.  Unless of course somehow I missed that in the beginning, but I don't think I did.

Comments

[Easton Ellsworth]

Seriously - where's the simple radio button option when you need it? Thanks for going through the hassle to honor my suggestion anyway, Li!

[johntunger]

Hi Li,

The permalinked titles hack is slated to become a standard feature at TypePad in the near future… I can't put an actual time on when it will happen but I know that the design team has decided to implement it for all users.