As I've briefly mentioned before, I'm putting together a new bundle of blogging-related recipes along with a default configuration that'll help tie them all together. The way I'm doing this each of the recipes should be usable (and useful!) just by themselves, but put together should add up to a rather fully-featured blog engine.
To see it in action, I have test site I'm using at <http://aut-web.hut.fi/e/Blog>. Edit access I can't grant yet as I'll need to isolate it a bit more before I dare do that. Now, the point of this message isn't just to advertise my work, but also to elicit come comment and criticism. If you have an opinion on blogging with PmWiki, now would be a very good time to say it. I have read through <http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/BlogFeatures> and <http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00028> as well as the other bloggy cookbook recipes and implemented what I see as the most relevant parts, but please tell me if it looks like I'm leaving out something vital. Here's what I've gotten published so far (since last Monday, that is): Bloge-Feeds <http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Bloge-Feeds> Blog-like Atom & RSS feeds. Really this is just a wrapper for the standard feeds.php script, but with full-text contents and hopefully simpler usage instructions. Bloge-Linkback <http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Bloge-Linkback> Automatically send and receive Pingbacks and Trackbacks. The most complex of these recipes, this talks REST and XML-RPC with other servers in the background. Bloge-Ping <http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Bloge-Ping> Notify search engines when a page is modified. Similar to Bloge-Linkback, but with a much simpler interface and no verification since you're just telling the other party that you've updated your site. Bloge-ShortUrl <http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Bloge-ShortUrl> Get short URLs on your own site. Instead of external services such as the just-folded tr.im, you can host your own short/alternative URLs and customize them to your heart's content. Bloge-Tags <http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Bloge-Tags> Use page keywords and categories as tags. I looked at the other tagging recipes, but ended up writing my own that equates the concepts of keywords, categories and tags. Thanks to a suggestion by Stéphane Heckel, it now does tag clouds as well. Bloge-UrlApprove <http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Bloge-UrlApprove> Approve links one at a time. A wrapper for the standard urlapprove.php script that lets you approve links and sites one by one instead of having to approve all the links on a page at once. I'm still working a bit on how to present the rest, which should tie together the above with some PmForm and EditAttributes magic as well as a pile of pagelist templates to make an actual blog. It may end up as up to three separate recipes -- I'll see which parts to nibble out first. One thing I'm still working at is how to rename draft pages to their proper date when they're published. Is tricky, that. eemeli _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
