Feedback on BlogAddOn

The latest update (1.1) addresses a number of issues:

• The Comment header now has an "Edit" link to directly edit the comment page
• New posts get a timestamp prepended, as is done here on the Blog web
• Posts with a period in the title now can be created - the period will be converted to an underline

-- ArthurClemens - 26 Jan 2008

I'm a little worried about the RSS output from BlogAddOn (which I otherwise rather like). I 'm having a hard time seeing any mention of this before, so forgive me if it has been touched on. The problem I have is that the default WebRss shows the actual title of each topic, which includes all the nasty underscores and dashes. I have modified the generated titles to use a dash instead of an underscore for slug names, but it doesn't seem to do anything special to handle underscores either. (example here).

I'm not too knowledgeable on TWiki yet but I think it would be good if the BlogAddOn provided a custom WebRss view that somehow showed the actual human-friendly titles of topics ("TWiki is pretty awesome" instead of "2008-02-12_TWiki-is-pretty-awesome"). Do you think that would be possible?

• yes, see [CN1] below

-- IsaacRaway - 12 Feb 2008

PLEase tell me how to use Blog plugin

• BlogPlugin is a different extension. It has more functionalities than this simple add-on. Installation instructions are on the BlogAddOn page. Basically you need to copy all files in the folder into the Web you want the blog in. Then visit Yourweb.BlogAddOnHome topic for further instructions. -- ArthurClemens - 11 Mar 2008

-- NitinHajare - 11 Mar 2008

BlogAddOn users: the new version has an incompatibility change. Version 1.2 uses WIKINAME instead of WIKIUSERNAME in the Author form field. This change is not compatible with existing blog topics. If you have existing posts, you must change all author names from Main.UserName to UserName.

-- ArthurClemens - 07 Apr 2008

[CN1] To Isaac: just replace in WebAtomBase the $title by $formfield(Title) I guess this change could be made safely to the standard distrib, what do you think Arthur?

-- ColasNahaboo - 13 Apr 2008

hi, can i know how to install & configure Blog in TWiki? from pankaj parmar

-- PankajParmar - 30 Jun 2008

This is in the Installation Instructions in BlogAddOn.

-- ArthurClemens - 30 Jun 2008