[pmwiki-users] Yet another blogging thingie

[Thomas -Balu- Walter]

Hi all,

I've just restructured the whole recipe so that it's not necessary to
manage the entries in a different group anymore. This makes handling
entries a lot easier, since you don't have to change the group to edit
or create new entries anymore.

I've also removed unnecessary ballast from the templates, so it's easier
to see what's going on there - I hope.

This sums up to: everything blog related is in the Blog group. No
changing of LocalTemplates, no fiddling around in different groups to
manage your entries. 

I think this is a much nicer way.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:28:46PM +0200, Stéphane Heckel wrote:
> #1 I would like to update my CSS file and include what is needed, ...
> ie : I would like the Title to be h1/bold and the posted/updated line in 
> italic/small characters [-'' ...
> I know how to create/update the CSS  but I don't know how to "link" the CSS 
> with Site.LocalTemplates ... could you provide an   example ? or, is the 
> LocalTemplates the prefered place to do that ?

Damn, I didn't expect people using it that fast :-). Anyway. you can
simply add some PmWiki tags in LocalTemplates as you wish.

> #2 I would like to add the "Author" in the posted/updated line (as it could 
> be a multi-users Blog by nature)

Use {=$LastModifiedBy} in the pagelist template (old version of the recipe)
and {*$LastModifiedBy} in the page template. The variables look
different because of their usage in pagelist and on the page.

> #3 Could you share what is required to add the Tag & Permalink pictures ?

I'm using %tags%{=$:Tags}%%. This builds something like <span class='tags'> 
around the Tags which I then modify using simple CSS:

.tags {background: url(tag_blue.gif) no-repeat; 
    padding-left: 18px; padding-right: 9px; font-size: 90%;}

> and some more advanced wishes ;-))
> 
> #4 Use xml/rpc & Windows Live Writer to create new entries, ... that would 
> be outstanding !

Uha, I have no idea how that would work, since I'm a linux guy and don't
know the Live Writer software. Perhaps someone else 

     Balu