Updated the Blog

Thanks for leaving all those friendly notes in the comment section of my first post. I really appreciate any kind of feedback.

I just deployed a new version of the Pier Blog plugin that mainly consists of bug-fixes and a couple of new features:

  • A permanent link is displayed next to the meta information of every post and comment.
  • Comments can now be submitted only during a freely configurable time after the initial post, for my server I set the value to 14 days.
  • There is a comment feed available now. I don’t know if this is useful for anybody else, but for me it definitely is.
  • I improved the generation of the RSS feeds: less complaints and better compatibility to be expected.
Posted by Lukas Renggli at 6 February 2007, 11:32 pm with tags pier, blog link

Comments

Lukas, this just rocks ;)

I’ve noticed the blog can only be setup in a "new page", not inline I mean... (*blog* and not +blog+). Is it true ? can we prevent the inlining of blog componenet ?

Posted by Cédrick at 7 February 2007, 9:19 pm link

oups... I meant * blog * and + blog +...

Is there to edit comments ? (this would require login I guess...)

Posted by Cédrick at 7 February 2007, 9:21 pm link
  • Yes you have to navigate to the blog structure itself to be able to edit it, else you would have somehow a conflict when editing the current page. Of course you can also embed it anywhere else and hide it.
  • You need to load a security plugin to disallow control the edit functionality. Here I am running Pier Unix Security with a single administrator user. Anonymous has read-only access.
  • To hide posts and/or comments in the tree you need to configure the tree widget not to display those structures, what happens trough the settings user-interface.
  • At the moment there is no possibility to edit comments later on.
Posted by Lukas Renggli at 7 February 2007, 9:22 pm link