So I Removed Lijit…

I just posted about how great the Ligit blog widget is, and it is! I removed the widget, but not because of a problem with widget itself; I removed it because of a problem with TypePad. When I was testing the widget, I discovered something odd - the search results were displaying results from blog posts I had marked as "drafts." They shouldn’t have been showing! These were posts that had once been published, but that I had since unpublished by changing their status to "draft" in TypePad. Strange.

I’ve been blogging for a few years, and when I began, I had posted some more personal content that I’ve now decided to remove. Nothing racy or weird or work-related…just personal posts about what I had done that day, in a more journal-like style. Once I decided to focus more on tech blogging, I decided these posts no longer belonged in the archives. I didn’t want to delete them, though, because it’s still nice to look back through them from time to time for nostalgia’s sake.

I started a ticket with TypePad’s support and the end result was that TypePad wrote me that "it appears that TypePad does not delete the individual archive page if you unpublish a post. We will look into changing this so that the page is removed if the post is unpublished." So, be warned anyone who is using a blog search widget on your TypePad blog!