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@import url("http://community.wikidot.com/admin:css/code/4");
I created this page to give the basic skeleton of how to do modern-day Wikidot blogging.
The current articles are:
I feel these are very clumsy and out-of-date methods of blogging on Wikidot, which is why I made this page.
Please rate it up!!
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Well done James!
I like the short over view - done with a lot of work - started 8 hours before now..- !!
Now we have an answer if a newbee ask for how can I implement a blog?
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A very good summary!
There's one thing that I noticed: There's no need for “Step 4: RSS Feed” if it's just to generate an RSS feed.
You may want to check http://community.wikidot.com/help:rss to see how to construct any RSS URL link that may be placed on any page you desire.
In your example the RSS link would be something like
http://wiki-name.wikidot.com/feed/pages/category/blog/t/Blog+feed
Thanks for the support guys!
Ahh yes, the optional Step 4…
I changed it to display your example instead — although this is a wiki, so you should feel free to contribute if you have improvements.
Yes Helmuti! That is exactly why I wrote it =D
λ James Kanjo
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Hi James. good stuff.
Being an idiot, i thought i would go thru the steps as you suggest, to see what happens.
the first thing is that if anyone cuts and paste the code you have so kindly provided, it will cause major confusion as unneeded spaces are added which completely *&^% IT UP :-((.
edit …. loads of stuff removed.
the first thing is that if anyone cuts and paste the code you have so kindly provided, it will cause major confusion as unneeded spaces are added which completely *&^% IT UP :-((.
I don't understand you. I went and followed my instructions (3 separate links), and the whole thing worked perfectly. The only problem I discovered was that the rating module can't be used inline (which I did not know before). What are these "unneeded spaces" you are talking about?
And about your "quicker easier way", I honestly found your layout extremely confusing. Perhaps you could draw up a more logical layout? I mean, are the dot-points supposed to be headings, or instructions? And why is everything in bold?
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prehaps its me then.
if i cut and paste, it puts 4 spaces in the edit box before and code.
so [[rate]] will work, but space space... [[rate]] wont
Following your instructions was fine. i just found it easier working backwards so to speak :-)
Has any one else actually tried it??
Ahh, I know what you're talking about now! No, that didn't happen when I did it (copy-paste), but it has happened to me in the past. I believe it might be browser dependent — I'm using Chrome these days.
From memory, I believe that this doesn't happen if you use [[code]] blocks instead of > blocks. Shame too, because I always found the [[code]] blocks difficult to read (which is why I use the > blocks)
I'll change it to the [[code]] blocks now, and perhaps you can test if it has spaces when you copy and paste.
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YEY! thats better james :-))
Cut and paste works fine.
I didnt realise you had use quotes instead of code blocks.
And i thought that it was cutting and pasting from code that caused my problem.
Which is why i did all that crap the way i did :-)
As we say to our customers when they report problems:
The "sorry, glad, thanks" principal, it works like a charm… every time ;)
PS. Rate it up!
λ James Kanjo
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I feel these are very clumsy and out-of-date methods of blogging on Wikidot
Please be polite young guy!
Anyone here can participate and help improving wikidot, but it is not necessary to use words that might offend people that helped in early times of wikidot when all current features did not exist.
Thank you for your understanding.
I was a bit rude, towards the creator of those two how-tos (you). I understand what you say, but please understand that I wasn't trying to target you — I just meant to say that it has become out-of-date, that is all. It was the best solution in its day.
λ James Kanjo
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OK. Game over.
is there a way to get a list of recent comments (side-wide or category-wide)?
Or is there a way to get email notification for comments on your blog?
Either solution would work for me.
Thanks,
HRJ
Well you have two options you could set up a rss feed or a mini post style thing with this module.
[[module MiniRecentPosts limit="5"]]
Thanks for the time it took to create this :-)
However, I'm a little confused. Do I have all this on one page now? The blog_template page?
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%%content%%
[[[Blog]]] » %%title%%
Posted on %%date|%A: %d %B, %Y|agohover%%
%%content%%
Like this entry?
[[module Rate]]
[[module Comments title="Leave a comment"]]
Hey James,
There is another way to generate the RSS feed/icon for the blog : add the attribute rss="myblog" to the ListPages module.
Step 4 might also show that RSS can be generated through the ListPages module.
You're damn right. I don't know why I had it in any other way. Thanks Gerdami!
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Hi James,
This is a really great introduction — thanks very much for putting it together. I've just started using Wikidot today and I have what looks like a very acceptable blog up and running already.
One question re step 5. You say "Finally, you may want to add a "Create new blog entry" button somewhere on your site". For us newbies, it would be really helpful if you gave an example of where would be a good place to put that button. It seems to me that the nav:side page would be a good default place.
Finally, is it possible to use the NewPage module to create a page with a blank title? It'd be nice to just press the New Blog Entry button and be able to do all the editing on the new post page.
Thanks again for the guide.
You don't need a NewPage module if you don't want titles. Simply put
[/blog:blog/edit/true/tags/_blog New Blog Entry]
Also, if you liked the guide, don't forget to rate it up.
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Anyone who wants to contribute some of these ideas to the http://blog-template.wikidot.com site, please go ahead. This will become a template for new users' sites. It's easier to just give people a fully working blog than to explain to them how to do it.
At least, it would be useful to link back to this page from the blog-template site, somewhere.
I plan on implementing this soon, just wanted to check to see if http://www.wikidot.com/doc:nextpreviouspage-module would also work fine with this?
It should work fine, but those two modules have been deprecated in favour of the ListPages module, which can now do the same thing (and ListPages is a lot more customisable)
Writing up a quick example…
[[module ListPages category="blog" limit="1" order="created_at desc" range="before"]]
< %%title_linked%%
[[/module]]
[[module ListPages category="blog" limit="1" order="created_at desc" range="after"]]
%%title_linked%% >
[[/module]]
Add in some div's, and you get this finished product:
[[div style="float:left;"]]
[[module ListPages category="blog" limit="1" order="created_at desc" range="before"]]
< %%title_linked%%
[[/module]]
[[/div]]
[[div style="float:right;"]]
[[module ListPages category="blog" limit="1" order="created_at desc" range="after"]]
%%title_linked%% >
[[/module]]
[[/div]]
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On the template, I changed the %%content%% to %%content{1}%% and %%content{2}%% where content1 is an intro to the blog and content2 is the main(remaining) content.
I did this so that on my main page I could list just the intro (%%short%% will display the first 'content' so if there is only one then...) in the listpage.
I've also added the 'Previous' and 'Next' code from Shane, but that won't show until I have more than one entry.
Any other suggestions?
P.S. I'm also going to add RSS (almost typed CSS then) to my blog as well.
P.P.S. "Kids, don't Wiki when tired"
It's good stuff James, but I'm having a small problem.
When I head on over to my blog's home page, it shows my "blog:_template" page under "latest blog", is this supposed to happen? I am just crazy? Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
thanks in advance,
bkupkee
It sounds like you might have pagetype="*" or pagetype="hidden" in a ListPages module somewhere.
Could you link to the page with the problem, or post the source code you are using here?
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Actually, the _template page doesn't exist. It is displaying blog:1, so either an error occurred or the input in the URL was incorrect.
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It sounds like the NewPages module was used to create the template. It strips off the "_" character and creates a page called "template". Since the category is autonumbered, that turned into "1".
You must use the URL to create a hidden page.
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Good thinking rurwin. I agree, that sounds likely. Others have made the same mistake and others will continue to make that mistake in future.
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Thanks Shane for update the glossary hidden page!
Someone should update this howto in the same warning….
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Someone should update this howto in the same warning….
Done!
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That's interesting. Try this:
[[[Blog]]] » %%title%%
Posted on %%date|%A: %d %B, %Y|agohover%%
%%content%%
Like this entry?
[[module Rate]]
[[module Comments title="Leave a comment"]]
If this doesn't work, let us know.
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I followed these instructions and it all seems to work. However, I get the message "Please use the site manager to activate the Forum, or ask your admin to help" on http://www.vanessajackson.me/journal:_template
I don't have a forum. How do I fix this, or can I happily ignore it?
Thanks.
I assume that you are wanting to use the comments module on your blog. If so then as it says early in step 2, you need to activate the forum. So go to your site manager -> forum and discussion - settings and press the "activate forum now" button in the middle of the screen.
Edit: as the need to activate the forum was easy to miss I have added in a paragraph about this in the section on the comments module.
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Thank you! All fixed now =)
