Type: task
Description: Finish Blog features
Status: In Progress
Priority: 3
Assigned:

Notes

FINISH BLOG FEATURES

• add {/blog} to page to turn it into a blog [DONE]

• sidebar: entry list (need fanciness)
• small calendar?
• add class event to calendar (use public calendar_date field)
• DONE ON KEYSTONE optional email blog entries to class
• optional blog settings
  • skins!!!
  • customize sidebar
  • sidebar wiki pages
  • sidebar gadgets?
  • links
  • pages (from sub-wiki?)
  • local search?
• digest break [ {self.more} or {/blog.more} and $entry->digest ]
• rss feed

Entry feature

• Title, date, body
• draft, posting
• scheduled posting?
• tags/labels
• allow comments

Features (from wikipedia)

• Title, the main title, or headline, of the post.  [title]
• Body, main content of the post.  [wiki]
• Permalink, the URL of the full, individual article. [name]
• Post Date, date and time the post was published. [swank_created]

Interface features:

• Permanent info (usually in a sidebar)
• Archives (list/calendar)

A blog entry optionally includes the following:

• Comments [comments app]
• Comment Moderation (comments app enhancement? general moderation plugin?)
• Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses (with sidebar list)  (todo: tag app)
• Trackback and or pingback - links to other sites that refer to the entry (probably a plugin)

• Weblog applications usually offer web syndication service either in the form of RSS or Atom. This allows for other software such as feed aggregators to maintain a current summary of the blog's content. [Plugins/RSS: need a blog-limited feed]

• Most software supports the use of external client software to update content using common APIs such as the MetaWeblog API and the Atom Publishing Protocol.

• Most types of blogware support adding thumbnail images within blog posts. Photo blogging is a separate genre of blogging that deals primarily with images. [attachments]