[pmwiki-users] Embedding a blog

Kathryn Andersen kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org
Fri Aug 3 02:59:26 CDT 2007


On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:31:42PM +1000, Gemsling wrote:
> Does anyone here have experience with embedding a blog in PmWiki and
> would care to share some general thoughts/advice?
> 
> I realise that I could make up a PmWiki-based blog solution, but I'm
> drawn to WordPress for its simplicity, Atom/RSS feeds and the ability
> to post using a client like Ecto.
> 
> I'll set something up soon and try it out, but I also need to start
> thinking about how I'll embed the WordPress content (a batch of recent
> posts) into a PmWiki page or perhaps a PmWiki template.

The simplest method might be to not embed it at all.   Instead, make
matching skins.  That is, assuming WordPress is skinnable, then make a
WordPress skin which is like a PmWiki skin, or a PmWiki skin which is
like a WordPress skin, or an entirely new skin for both.

You would also have to make sure that the navigation matches in both
PmWiki and WordPress (which could depend on how you do the skins
anyway).

I know it doesn't feel that clever to do it that way, but, really, all
you want with "integration" is the same look-and-feel and the same
navigation, and once you've taken care of that, what more do you need?

That's the approach I've taken with my site, which is a mixture of
PmWiki and of a home-brewed CMS based on EmbPerl.  I created the
BonnySkin to match the look-and-feel of the EmbPerl part of my site,
made the nav-bar on the PmWiki side match the navbar on the EmbPerl
side, and that's it.  Using CleanUrls means that the average visitor
isn't going to be able to tell what part's wiki and what part isn't.

Kathryn Andersen
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