[pmwiki-users] Yet another blogging thingie

Thomas -Balu- Walter list+pmwiki-users at b-a-l-u.de
Wed Aug 15 17:51:06 CDT 2007


Hello all,

after a while I'm finally back into PmWiki business. 

At the end of 2005 I had some ideas what features I would like in a
blogging setup using PmWiki. Many of those required specialized PHP
extensions to PmWiki. After a long time without using PmWiki I just came
back and noticed that you can do nearly all of it by using only PmWiki's
core features - pagelists to be exact.

The idea behind this is not new. BlogWithPageList and BlogSimple2 have
similar if not exactly the same ideas behind them.

So why am I posting a new recipe into the Cookbook doing just that?

Because I did not want to follow an existing recipe and probably block
my creative ideas too early by restrictions - and get to know PmWiki
more again :).

What can it do?

* display a number of entries on the blog homepage
* display date based "archives" using pages like
   o "2007" - overview of all posts from that year,
   o "2007-08" - overview of all posts from that month,
   o "2007-08-12" - overview of all posts for that day 
* templated overview and detail pages, so you don't have to update all
  entries when changing the layout 
* tag entries using the PmWiki Categories 

I voted to put the date into the page names because I hope that PmWiki
filters the pagelists a lot faster than using the last changed date in a
page variable or similar. 

Have a look at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/BalusBlog
and discuss it on http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/BalusBlog-Talk

     Balu



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