I can wait as long as it takes you. I love to see this kind of open source development. Even though I've been doing it for years, I still consider myself a novice explorer. I try so many different systems, that I have never been able to master one.
I really like the way your system works. Non- or semi-programmer users always want things to work out of the box, but I TOTALLY understand the kind of development that is going on here, and have plenty of patience. Since I'm so new to it, I started this post to see if anyone else in the community might have gone thru the same thing and had already altered the plugin to create fully working files. And also to help others who might have the same problem. Sometimes seeing that others struggle makes one's own 3AM struggle a little easier. I thank you profusely for providing this software and for continuing to develop it. I'm looking forward to tackling the learning curve in my own (also limited) free time. And thanks especially for the quick response. That alone is encouraging and appreciated! Regards, Adam On Dec 5, 7:11 am, "The Editor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > > I'm short on time right at the moment and don't have time to look > carefully through your situation, but I wanted to make a few quick > comments. > > 1) BoltWire has gone through a good bit of development over the past > year, and sometimes the plugins have not kept pace with changes in the > code. Things have defiinitely slowed these last two months (which is > good), and there's nothing major ahead on the roadmap, but it has been > a big problem. You'll notice something similar with the docs, though > we are working on it--and I'll be doing a major overhaul (hopefully) > before the end of the year. > > 2) The blog plugin is one that is out of date--even with the changes > suggested on the plugin page. The pagedata suggestions, for example > are no longer needed as BoltWire has a built info function which can > do even more-- right in the core. But I have not been able to update > all the plugins. I'm still hoping (requesting) other admins might be > willing to maintain one or another of the plugins... > > 3) What I think I'd like to do is rework the forum and blog plugins to > be something more of a tutorial than a one-click installation. Like: > here's how you make a new page generator. Here's how you set up a > display of blog/forum pages. Here's how you allow comments. Here's how > you use info vars to keep track of things. I think it would be easier > to maintain, and it would give people more flexibility if they > understood HOW to setup their own blogs/forums however they want. > > All the steps are pretty easy, it's just assembling them that can be a > challenge. The current blog plugin, uses every imaginable trick to > try and do some amazing things at a very high level of performance. > Unfortunately, that makes it more difficult for new users to > understand how it works and debug it when there are problems. > > If you can wait a few days, I'll try and generate a blog/forum > tutorial for you (and perhaps a plugin update). It won't be > hard--just will take some time. And I'll be gone most of the weekend. > > BoltWire is quite flexible. Once you get the hang of it, I think > you'll like it. And my apologies that I haven't been able to keep up > with all of the plugins. > > Cheers, > Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
