Mark, Are there instructions anywhere to take an in wiki plugin and make it a server plugin (file?).
Regards Tones On Saturday, 5 September 2020 06:27:02 UTC+10, Mark S. wrote: > > Let me add, that there are two ways to add a plugin folder. > > The first is to add it to just a single wiki, in the plugins folder of > your tiddly data folder. > > The second is to add it to your node.js master copy of tiddlywiki. > > The advantage of the first method is that the plugins will continue to be > there as you upgrade, and it's pretty easy. > > The advantage of the second method is that once you have the plugins in > place, they are available to all your wikis just by insert some lines into > tiddlywiki.info. > > The disadvantage of the second method is that you have to find where your > master copy of TW is (On Windows, the path to the default TW version is > buried pretty deep.), and, possibly, your plugins won't survive when you > upgrade (don't know for sure on this point.) Certainly if you relink to a > different TW directory structure, your personal plugins aren't going to be > there automatically. > > On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 4:56:07 PM UTC-7, TW Tones wrote: >> >> Mark, >> >> That is possibly the clearest description so far. We need to document >> this a bit better. >> >> I admit I am no expert in this yet, and I hope if what I state is >> incorrect someone will contradict me. >> >> I would add to your points, as I understand it, that if installed in node >> apparently they are available to all wikis within Node such as under Bob, >> but installed by Drag and drop they become tiddlers installed in the >> specific wiki. >> >> You can see that except for the exceptions Mark mentions, drag and drop >> can be an intentional approach to installing a different set of plugins in >> different wikis. >> >> Despite this I am not sure what happens to to make correctly installed >> server plugins visible in the wikis below. >> >> Regards >> Tony >> >> >> On Friday, 4 September 2020 00:56:10 UTC+10, Mark S. wrote: >>> >>> I think it means there some plugins meant for node.js that need to be >>> installed in a directory (maybe because they need to communicate directly >>> with the operating system). >>> >>> For most 3rd party plugins I think you're OK with d&d. But if you have a >>> plugin that needs to directly communicate with the OS or over the internet, >>> then you will need to install local plugin directories. >>> >>> If you have official plugins, then you can "install" them just by >>> listing them in the tiddlywiki.info file. You do not want there to also >>> be a drag-and-drop plugin version of them because the d&d version will >>> block the latest copy of the official version. The idea is that your >>> official plugins will automatically be upgraded on node.js when you upgrade >>> your tiddlywiki installation on node.js. >>> >>> Having said that, if you're using code-mirror, and your drag-and-drop >>> version seems to be working, maybe just stick with it for the current >>> generation. It seemed to me that there was some internal inconsistency with >>> the next gen of code-mirror. Whenever I tried to do the official install, >>> things broke. But that's just my thinking. >>> >>> >>> Good luck! >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 5:49:25 AM UTC-7, demon...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> So I have my nodejs server up and running, but I did not want to start >>>> an entirely new wiki, instead I wanted to import my old wiki and continue >>>> using that. I imported it via just drag and dropping my .html file onto >>>> the >>>> newly made empty wiki. It imported everything just fine and everything >>>> seems to work ok. >>>> >>>> However, I noticed that installing plugins in nodejs >>>> <https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Installing%2520custom%2520plugins%2520on%2520Node.js.html>server >>>> >>>> should *not *be done by drag and dropping them as individual tiddlers >>>> but instead you should make plugins folder in the server and put them >>>> there >>>> and tell in the tiddlywiki.info file what plugins to load. It is said >>>> that: >>>> >>>> > Note that including a plugin as an ordinary tiddler (e.g. by dragging >>>> and dropping a plugin into the browser) will result in the plugin only >>>> being active in the browser, and not available under Node.js. >>>> >>>> So what does this *actually *mean? All my old plugins were installed >>>> this way when I was not using nodejs. They still seem to work fine. Should >>>> I remove all my plugins installed with drag and drop and install them >>>> manually as per the link? >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/44072b5a-9f34-44d4-9d58-15df119d9167o%40googlegroups.com.
