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Trying out Blosxom

I downloaded Blosxom today. There are quite a few things I like about Blosxom already. Blosxom 2.0 is in beta now and supports plugins. I think I’ll wait for 2.0 and use it for blogging at work - especially as a uber bookmarker tool for bookmarking links I find interesting.

I love:

1. Multiple levels of categories!
2. Static rendering.
3. Easy code*.
4. Plugins.
5. Flavours.

* - Somewhat easy! Not as easy to read as PyBlosxom.

What I might miss:

1. Summary text for entries. I guess I can use a convention of second paragraph to be the summary and hack the code to understand it.
2. Whenever I edit an entry, it is going to come up as a new entry. A simple touch can fix that.

1. >> Whenever I edit an entry, it is going to come up as a new entry.

   That is exactly the feature I wanted in a weblogging tool for work. When a project is updated, I just update the entry, and the latest 'news' about that project automatically floats on top. Anyway, there's a utility that I have called editfile.py that puts back the timestamp for you so you don't have to :) Blosxom does have this nifty plugin called entries_index or something like that, it keeps a database of timestamps for all your files.

   For problem no 1. if you're using pyblosxom (which I don't think so), it's easy to create your own plugin that overrides the behaviour of reading '.txt' files. See:
   http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pyblosxom/pyblosxom/contrib/plugins/preformatters/moinmoin.py for an example code.

   Posted by: wari on April 29, 2003 10:57 AM