PmWiki Blog Administration
I am not really the type to keep a blog going regularly; I'm much more likely to force myself to write for about a month and then forget it exists. Yet, I actually find myself desiring to write in this thing. I think a big part of that is because the software that powers the site avoids the long list of annoyances that I have unconsciously compiled on software that I've used in the past for blogging, bloggery, and other blog-related blogtivities.
I want to say a big thanks to Patrick Michaud, creator of PmWiki, and David Gilbert, creator of BlogIt, for their amazing work and help setting the site up just right.
I've created a PmWiki blog administration tutorial as a way to give back to the community in a small way; hopefully somebody finds it interesting. Or at very least, I hope it brings some hits my way through the Googlings of confused would-be-bloggers.
Thanks - this was extremely helpful in setting up the RSS feed in a blog! The working example was helpful, and knowing how to cut out what I don't want was invaluable.
Happy blogging!
Glad it helped! I should really put this on PmWiki.org...
Nice write-up, thanks for the pointers. At some point soon (tm) I'll incorporate RSS into my sites...
Good stuff... How did you get images to appear in both your post(s) and the lists (like recent posts)? I end up with an *Attach:* Δ link in the lists.
Thanks again for the post.
I'm cheap, so in an effort to keep hosting costs down I upload images to Picasa and link them there. To include images, I just put in the full URL or the image; so, for the image that's on this post, the wiki markup is:
%cframe width=400px%http://lh4.ggpht.com/_zupPhIX7kzk/Sw7we35K4jI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/vz9ZO5gJmAk/delicious.png%%For your feed text, you can also just extract the blog entry body with the following function:
( :markup: )
function FeedText($pagename, &$page, $tag) {
$p = "( :include $pagename#blogit_entrybody : )";
$content = MarkupToHTML($pagename, $p);
return "<$tag><![CDATA[$content]]></$tag>";
}
( :markupend: )
Oh, nice! I'll have to try that out and update the post.
If anyone's curious, Shawn's tip works great, and I've updated the tutorial to reflect that.