EveryBlog

summary:

...a wiki about your blogs!

EveryBlog

TheBlog 1213642811|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi everybody!
I'm TheBlog, I'm 20, I'm Italian and I'm new to Wikidot.com!

The idea behind EveryBlog was born some time ago while I was sperimenting a little project about blog reviews on the italian version of blogger.
After this experience, I remembered having seen wikidot.com around the web, so I came here and started developing this brand new wiki.
The concept is about databasing every possible blog, no matter the language of origin, giving people from all around the world the possibility to discover foregin blogs about common interests.

I'm stille getting started around here but I'm already feeling comfortable with the basic commands, wich is truly great!

I hope you will help me with my project about blogs,
thanks for reading and sorry for my poor english.

TheBlog

edit: I was missing the most important part! Here's the link
Everyblog

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Re: EveryBlog

mmclean89 1213686020|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

hello, this is an interesting idea. I think you could benefit from the use of templates, so the main headings are already listed when someone goes to add a blog.

to do this, go to http://everyblog.wikidot.com/template:blog (or name it whatever you want), create a page, and insert this:

[!--- This the blog description template. Please add the appropriate info under each heading. ---]

//Link://

//Born://

//Author://

//Type://

//Language://

//Description://

then edit http://everyblog.wikidot.com/nav:side and adjust the newpage button to include this:

[[module NewPage size="15" button="new blog" template="template:blog"]]

now anyone can create a blog page and fill in this info more easily

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TheBlog 1213698562|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Wow!

This is great! I implementated all your advices and I must say they were really needed!
Thanks a lot!
I knew this community was cool but this really exceed my expectations!

By the way, I think another big problem in Everyblog is the lack of categories; to create a new category what should I do?
I wanted to do something like wikipedia: a page were all the pages under a certain category are listed.
I hope I made myself clear…but I'm making a little example anyway:
the page Eriadan is under the "Online comic" and "Personal" type.
I want that a visitor, clicking on "Online comic", is redirected to a page where all blogs with the "online comic" type are listed.
Is it possible?

once more, thanks a lot
TheBlog

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mmclean89 1213722233|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

glad I could help :) … I think what your looking for is tags.

go to the bottom of the page and hit the "tags" button and then type in the categories. You'll have to do online-comic (with a - dash), since words can't have spaces.

another thought: for things like Author and Language, i wouldn't link to them at http://everyblog.wikidot.com/italian, because as the wiki gets bigger, an Author name or language may eventually be the same name as a blog. the solution is to name the pages as author:authorname or language:italian instead so they are in their own category.

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Re: EveryBlog

TheBlog 1213737531|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Wow thanks a lot mmclean89!
I made as you suggested and I'm impressed with the results!
Thanks so much!

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TheBlog 1214160454|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi everybody I'm sorry for double posting but I wanted to let you know that this project is going great and I'd ask like to ask everyone here who has a blog to add the description onto http://everyblog.wikidot.com/ so that you can join this great adventure.

As usual, sorry for my bad english and thanks for reading!

Re: EveryBlog

Craig Macomber 1214162678|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Neat idea for a site. I suggest getting some content out onto the main page. Maybe a list of the last 5 blogs added or something like that.

Good luck.

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TheBlog 1214171388|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Wow that's a great idea!
Is it there any way to express this with a piece of code or do I have to edit the main page every time someone adds a new blog?
Talking about mainpage, do you think it explains how the wiki works correctly or do you think I should add some advices?

Re: EveryBlog

Craig Macomber 1214172533|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Use http://www.wikidot.com/doc:listpages-module

Set the limit to 5, order to dateCreatedDesc and category to where ever you keep them. In stead of using limit, if you use perpage, it will allow readers to view older pages if they want. List pages also lets you have an RSS feed if you want. It is a really great module, but currently it has issues with speed (listpages-is-very-slow)

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Re: EveryBlog

TheBlog 1214201219|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Well, let me say once more this community is really great!
I just added the module and I like it a lot! The only problem is that I had to put it in a bad viewing area, so I'd like to change its colors to make it more "outstanding" and visible but I couldnt' figure a solution…do you have any suggestion?
Thanks a lot to Craig Macomber and mmclean89 and to everyone who would like to add his blog!

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TheBlog 1214246935|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

*added the "Blog platform" (splinder, blogger, wordpress ecc) section in the template.
Any suggestion is welcome