[pmwiki-users] Blogging with PmWiki

[DaveG]

> * A front page showing the most recent X articles, sorted 
> chronologically,  but

I'd vote for this.

> * Ability to have both Draft and Posted statuses for blog entries,  
> and to easily move from Draft to Posted.  (Really,  this amounts to 
> being able to select whether to post to the calendar from the EditForm.)

This idea I like a lot, even for a normal wiki. It's provides a 
mechanism for people to start working on a page, and finalize it when 
they are totally done.


Russell Bailey wrote:

> We already have a good solution for sorting content-by-date with the 
> calendars,  but what we don't have is an interface with the bells and 
> whistles of something like Moveable Type or LiveJournal.  It seems to 
> me that PmWiki is really,  really close to providing everything you 
> need for this.
>
> Personally,  I want to use this for a robust News Page,  but it seems 
> to me a general-purpose solution isn't outside the realm of possibility.
>
> Bells and whistles I'd like to have:
>
> * XML-RPC support for standard APIs.  (Easily enough supported via 
> existing recipe.)
> * A front page showing the most recent X articles, sorted 
> chronologically,  but

I'd vote for this.

> * Ability to have both Draft and Posted statuses for blog entries,  
> and to easily move from Draft to Posted.  (Really,  this amounts to 
> being able to select whether to post to the calendar from the EditForm.)

This idea I like a lot, even for a normal wiki. It's provides a 
mechanism for people to start working on a page, and finalize it when 
they are totally done.

> * Ability to set (:title:) and categories in separate boxes on the 
> edit form.  (Pretty trivial.)
> * Outgoing and incoming trackback support.  (Relatively easy with a 
> standalone trackback implementation-  the question is just where to 
> integrate it.)
> * Article categories independent of presentation.  Invisible category 
> links,  basically.
> * RSS for the whole blog (easily accomplished with 
> $Group.RecentChanges?action=rss).
> * RSS for comments pages.  I like CommentBox a lot,  but I don't see 
> an easy way to interpret those pages as trails.  (Perhaps comments 
> pages should be mini-blogs?)
>
> Comments?
>
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