Wordpress is the blogging software that runs this site.
Actually this is a customized version 1.5.2. You will find some of those customizations explained here, together with some code.
Here is the outline of what I did to get some (translated) text displayed at the beginning of every category page. This is mostly a reminder to myself in order to be able to redo it in the unlikely case I upgrade Wordpress and have to go through it once again.
I just installed the view-count plugin by Mike O’Connell. As one would expect, it’s a very simple plugin. On the first run it ALTERs the posts table adding a BIGINT view_count column which is updated when users click on a post. To display the number of views, one has just to call the_view_count() at some place in the template. I’ll add it one day… 
Alas, the counter never gets updated… the filters installed by the plugin never get called, since expects filter single_template to be applied somewhere during template rendering, but that filter name doesn’t even exist in my ancient wordpress version. I just added
if(is_single() || is_page())
apply_filter('single_template', $content);
to wp-includes/template-functions-post.php, function the_content() and it works now. I hope that as it should
For some obscure reason, using WordPress Pages together with permalinks did not work for me with latest WP installed (1.5.2). Here is my solution together with the modifications to the code.
Running a WordPress weblog in several languages simultaneously, means translating and coordinating several components in WordPress. Here are some ideas and solutions to this…
