After a lot of frustrating attempts at debugging my Blosxom installation, to figure out why plugins weren't working right, I finally discovered the problem: I'm stupid. When I started using dynamic blog page creation, I made a new copy of the script in my web/cgi-bin directory. But I made all my debugging changes to the old version, in the static directory. Surprise surprise, it never made any difference when I made changes.
But now I really am running the latest version (instead of just having an inert copy of the latest version to confuse myself), and all is well. Even more exciting, I spent a couple of hours with trial and error, and Programming Perl, and I managed to hack a plugin to deal with non-existent urls for writeback posters intelligently, so people's names won't be links to nowhere if they leave info blank. To progress! (however slow and painful)
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