[pmwiki-users] Blogging recipe for PmWiki

[Crisses]

same hiccup....


Thanks, Dave.  There's another email on the list that goes into more  
detail about what I did in the recipe.

I've installed it on 3 sites so far -- and found a couple "bugs" --  
fixed the package a couple times.  There's also other features I want  
to add, so people may want to wait to implement it in a production  
environment (I've given it to 2 clients in addition to my own site, so  
I guess I'm the guinea pig for testing it in production  
environments)..  On one I forgot to change permissions on the Comments  
group (But I was probably the first person to try putting a comment on  
her first post ;) so I caught it).  That's in the directions -- have  
to learn to follow my own directions.

I'd suggest trying it on a local or test wiki first.  Heck, you don't  
have to add the blog stuff to the sidebar, or you can wrap the entire  
blog sidebar in (:if auth admin::) so only you can see the blog  
features.  The only pages it actually does anything outside of  
pmordinary to is the Comments group.  On Blog pages it adds  
(:timestamp:20071218TXXXXXX:) when you save (Publish) the page.

It turns on PmWiki's Draft's feature too.  For your whole site.   
That's easy to remedy and make happen only for the Blog group, though  
if you don't want it.  That feature allows you to save any page as a  
draft before making it public.  Not a bad thing for your entire site  
if you think about it.

On one of my user's sites I added:  (:if [ auth admin && exists {* 
$FullName}-Draft ] :)[- | [[{*$FullName}-Draft | View Draft ]] to the  
Site.PageActions

This adds a draft page to the page action links across the top of the  
site when it exists -- I have my page actions only show up for the  
admin -- most folk would just use:

(:if exists {*$FullName}-Draft:)[- | [[{*$FullName}-Draft | View  
Draft ]](:ifend:)

Thanks again,

Crisses

On Dec 18, 2007, at 12:25 AM, DaveG wrote:

> I like the way you've tied separate cookbooks together to present a  
> pretty rounded blogging implementation. I haven't used it yet, so  
> the pain may be yet to come, but it looks promising. Thanks.
>
> ~ ~ Dave
>
> Crisses wrote:
>> I've pulled together recipes that support blogging and made some  
>> executive decisions on what blogging means (to me, a WordPress  
>> user), what it should be, and how it should work, and created a  
>> recipe that contains several OTHER recipes by other authors, and  
>> packages them together with a few extras added in for good measure.
>> Please see http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/XESBlog for  
>> features, installation instructions, etc.  Note that Pingbacks  
>> require a few PEAR modules, so you could comment out the pingback  
>> lines until someone comes up with a better pingback recipe.
>> See also http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/XESBlog-Use for  
>> instructions on creating blog posts with the package.  I made it  
>> simple, so my clients can use it.
>> Please make suggestions if you see missing features, I plan on  
>> adding more as I go along and as I or clients need them.
>> Blog is live at my website http://crisses.org/Blog/Blog
>> Have fun!!  For those of us with holidays past & present, I hope  
>> you're having a wonderful time!
>> Crisses
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