I'd like to publicly thank the "power users" of this community, especially ErichSteinboeck for his growing list of incredibly useful Howto articles. One of Erich's most recent articles, ListPages: Automatic Header, proved to be a real inspiration in working through the logistics of indexing and displaying 600+ family coat-of-arms images for a new site I'm developing for a friend.
To see a pretty cool use of Wikidot and Erich's talent for for making Wikidot dance and sing, check out Conway's Irish Gifts and click on the Family Crests link on the top bar menu.
This functionality was basically created using 620 pages that have a source that looks like this:
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That's right! A single comment line along with a single image uploaded to the page.
The driving force behind it is a live template that does all of its work solely based on the name of the page and use of the ListPages module. It also shows off how useful the new PreviousPage / NextPage modules can be to browse through a set of similar pages.
I can't stop smiling after seeing how well this worked! :)
In spite of some of our grumbling about bugs and wishes, I love working with Wikidot and this community. I continue to be amazed at some of things we can pull off using this platform.
Thanks everyone!
-Ed
P. S. Later, I'll publish a Howto of my own that explains how I created the 620 pages while I slept using a free scripting tool for Windows. I wrote a script to automatically create and save each page and then upload the proper image. This could prove useful to others that need to make wholesale changes to a bunch of pages.