DISQUS

Barbara Ling · 1 year ago

You could always run a Lynx command via a command tool to generate all the links found and then pipe it thru wc -l.

Kinda like using a hammer to push in a thumbtack. :)

My morning humor before I fall asleep at my keyboard, Barbara

Paul Dunay · 1 year ago

Great post and great question Doug

Looks like I better get cranking on my blog!

Thanks for the mention

Douglas Karr · 1 year ago

Hi Paul!

I needed a good blogger-based blog as an example and yours was top of mind.

It's not about quantity - the quality of your posts and the time you take to edit and post them is evident!

Doug

Erik Deckers · 1 year ago

Or -- and I realize I don't have any good solutions like Google searches and special Lynx commands -- you could just look at the archives which shows the number of posts for each month/year, and total them up with a pencil and paper. :-D


Erik

Mike Schinkel · 1 year ago

Enter Douglas Karr: Cyber-Stalker!

j/k ;-)

Just a note, there are several reasons MySQL might skip an autonumber so the post number is a maximum potential, not an exact number. Just FYI.

zania · 1 year ago

Good catch Doug, I hadn't realised you could find out this way - so simple too!
If the blog has hidden the links to the archive and I want to test if it is a fairly new blog or not (or just a spam blog with few posts), I usually press the RSS button in my firefox browser to look at the feed. As the default for Wordpress RSS posts is 10 (and often left untouched), any less posts than this on the feed will usually tell me this is a very new blog (and many spam blogs still have the 'hello world' there as the first post).
Totally untech I know. The ideas above are much more useful!