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Thu, 10 Nov 2005

Plugins I have installed

Michael Still writes about Trackback pings.

I'm still not used to blosxom and how everything fits together but I thought I'd enumerate the plugins I've installed.

categorytree: I've actually got this named as 01categorytree, so it runs first, but it gives me the listing of topics I've posted too
extrensionless: I'm a big fan of Cool URIs, this helps me almost get there. Bonus points to those who can work out where I don't quite make the magic happen seemlessly. Oh, named 02extensionless.
atomfeed: As every good blogger knows, syndication is the name of the game. While you got use the deprecated RSS, Atom is where is it at. I've actually disabled RSS feeds in preference to atom
breadcrumbs: On permalink posts, you'll see a click-trail. All professional websites have them, so I figured I should too.
calendar: Presents a calendar with all the posts you've done on various days highlighted, so you can quickly determine when someone has been sleeping or has been an insomniac
config: Comes with the Debian blosxom package, and originates with the author. Allows you to customise configuration dependant on where the post is in your heirarchy and other magic.
directorybrowse: If you have deep category hierarchies this makes all the elements of the paths clickable. It's cool, you want it.
feedback: Part of the blogging scene is to allow other people to comment upon what you've written. This gives them comments and trackbacks. I've modified this somewhat and still need to fixup how comments are previewed but otherwise this plugin is gold
flavourdir: Also part of the blosxom package, this means you do not have to have your blog entries intermingled with the page templates (known as flavours) used to display them
interpolate_fancy: For large plugins, like feedback, you might end with some text on your template that you only want displayed some of the time. This enhances blosxom so your template (flavour) can have conditionals, comparisons and whatnot.
multcat: Not everything can be easily catagorised into one thing. This lets you put a post into multiple places. It'd be nice if all the categories a post was under was displayed as part of the category path
rendertime: Calculates the amount of time the page took to render

On my todo list is to convert from a table based layout to a fluid CSS one. It'll probably be a 3-columned look with fixed-width sidebars since negative margins looks are harder to get right.

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Wed, 02 Nov 2005

Yay!

First post. I too have decided to get into the whole blogging scene.

I looked around at various pieces of software and only blosxom and pyblosxom fitted my criteria.

My criteria was pretty simple:

Plenty of features (comments, calendar, categories)
No database (even though I prefer Postgresql, I didn't want to have to learn a schema if I decided to migrate or it all went cactus
Vibrant community

Both blosxom and pyblosxom have those but I found it easier to get blosxom setup and running. Eventually I'll write up a colophon about what I have and how it is configured. However, please excuse the very rudimentary setup I have — it'll get better in time.

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