Friday, May 11, 2007, 5:20:59 AM, Stirling Westrup wrote: > I'd still like to use the core blogging support when it arrives. In the > meantime I guess I'll use one of the existing blogging recipes, and then > transition to the new core methods when they show up. So, my big question is: > which of the many blogging recipes will give me something that is the easiest > to convert to the core blog system, once it exists.
I guess nobody really knows that. I would say none will be easy to convert, as each is quite a complex setup, and stores blog entries and comments in its own fashion. Once we see Pm's new commenting feature we can be clearer. I just releases a new FoxForum version which uses display templates to keep storage of comments (forum posts) and display of these separate. I was thinking of using this as a base for a blog system. It already allows a different display template for the first post, which would be the blog entry, from subsequent posts, which would be blog comments. But I know this will still likely change with new features being added to PmWiki. In particular the display templating is using FeralFormattedEntry, and Pm said he will most likely extend the (:include :) markup to be able to display data sections from a page using a template. So if I think about an easy way to upgrade a blog system in future, I would be looking at the way blog entries and comments are stored, and are formatted for display. The biggest work in a future upgrade/changeover may well be to go through all page sand rewrite the formatting to suit the new system. That is why I think with recipes like BlogSimple which work with CommentBoxPlus the blogs are not going to be easy to transform, as all the formatting is written into the pages. ~Hans _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
