Felocity

Let's get right to it- I've been blogging a lot about Mint lately, and there really is a good reason for it all. As a PHP/MySQL person, I love to tinker. You may have noticed a new thing where the portfolio used to be (if you're not the type for RSS). Thanks to Shaun's Mint and the good plugin folks of Textpattern I've written up a little something I like to refer to as the "Most Mintersting Articles". Puns and jokes aside, this is a pretty robust plugin for TXP, and includes its own caching module.

The need was a simple enough one, I wanted more exposure for the more interesting things on the site I've written. Some articles get a lot more reads than others, and some articles get a lot more comments. Since Mint is really good at collecting where on my site people went, it made sense to design a plugin to focus on that aspect. Additionally, Mint rolls its data and deletes old logs so the "freshest" pages are always going to update with time.…