Blogging Suite

Description

This proposal is about making blogging easier with Wikidot.

Details

Many Wikidot users ask for better blogging experience with Wikidot. Currently blogs and news systems can be set up via forums and the FronForum module, but this is not a perfect set up.

The goal of our work is to incorporate full blogging suite for Wikidot. Here are a few assumptions:

  • Blog articles are pages in a specified category (e.g. blog:).
  • When an author wants to create a new blog article (post), he/she makes a new page.
  • Pages should have comments/pingbacks/trackbacks configurable.

Here is a list of things that we need to make the full blogging system:

  • "Live templates" so that authors can set common layout for all pages from a category. done
  • ListPages module that would allow to make front-page list of blog entries. done
  • RSS feeds that couple to the ListPages module. done
  • Blogger-friendly comments system (not coupled to the forums, allow commenters to sign with their URL).
  • Pingback/Trackback implementation.
    • The two above also require an anti-spam technology.
  • Handful module for displaying post count in years/months (aka blog calendar).
Fold
Publication date
gerdamigerdami 1212057484|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

It would be interesting for the blogger to be able to

  • postedit the publication date (hum, an event occured in the past but I forgot to announce it, but 3 days later I want it published on that date, not on the current editing date)
  • prepare blog posts with a date in the future, i.e. when I'm going to go for holidays, I can prepare some posts that will be published in due time, while I am on the beach.

Indeed, I would like to be able to edit the date of regular forum posts of version 1.

lowkarma.pnggerdami - Visit Handbook en Français - Rate this howto:import-simple-excel-tables-into-wikidot up!
Reply  |  Options
Unfold Publication date by gerdamigerdami, 1212057484|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Fold
Re: Publication date
pieterhpieterh 1212160870|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

The main way of selecting what posts to publish is via tags. So this would mean we need timed tagging (i.e. "set this tag on this page at date/time X").

There is a separate issue of not allowing people to see blog posts that have not yet been published.

Portfolio

Reply  |  Options
Unfold Re: Publication date by pieterhpieterh, 1212160870|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Fold
ListPages elements
David MarseillesDavid Marseilles 1212900881|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I'd love to see a ListPages element that would display the number of comments you have on a particular page/post, when you get around to blog-friendly comments. Same for trackbacks when they happen.

Thanks for doing this, I love the idea of a wikidot blogging platform.

Reply  |  Options
Unfold ListPages elements by David MarseillesDavid Marseilles, 1212900881|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Fold
RSS validation
David MarseillesDavid Marseilles 1212985708|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I'm looking towards getting my blog indexed by places like technorati, and one thing that might help is validation.

I ran my blog feed through the wc3 Feed Validation Service and came up with several errors.

See the Errors without having to copy/paste my feed.

I'm still a ways off from getting indexed anyway, but I thought I'd bring this up.

Also, Technorati likes to be pinged before it indexes. Some places are set up to auto-ping it. Details here. I don't know a lot about this, so I'm not really sure if that might be related to the pingback item on your checklist or not.

Thanks again for pursuing blogging.

Reply  |  Options
Unfold RSS validation by David MarseillesDavid Marseilles, 1212985708|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Add a New Comment
page_revision: 3, last_edited: 1211970708|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z (%O ago)
EditTags History Files Print Site tools+ Options
Unless otherwise stated, the content of this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License