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When I 'undesigned' this website, I removed the links to the last five del.icio.us bookmarks from the right-hand side column and started looking for a more elegant and flexible solution than the (otherwise very well working) del.icio.us daily blog posting functionality.

It took me a while, but I finally managed to find, tweak and implement it. Here are a few links and pointers if you want to do the same.

The original script is Yet Another Weekly Delicious (YAWD) on Nozell.com. This link appears to be broken, you need to Google it and get the cached version. By the time you read this, the links on the page that links to it from the author's website might have been fixed.

I changed a few things (mainly wording and presentation), and followed the author's recommendation to password-protect the file (instructions on how to password-protect a web page), because the way this currently works is, you hit a URL and a new entry with the last seven days' worth of bookmarks gets generated.

That's it really. Next step would be to create a cron job that does it automatically, but for the time being I still prefer to maintain some editorial control and have a quick look at the entry (mainly for stray unescaped special characters) before changing its status to 'publish'.

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