Blosxom
Blosxom entries into MT
After setting up this blog, it was only natural to bring across my earlier blog posts that were previously served with Blosxom. (I haven’t fallen out with Blosxom, I just wanted a change of scenery...
How do I get plugin Y to run before plugin X?
It might be the case that you want plugin Y to run before plugin X, because of what X does with what Y is supposed to have already done. Blosxom loads plugins in filename order, so make sure the...
Why does my newly installed plugin not work, and not produce errors either?
It could be that the name of the plugin (from unpacking it) contains dashes or things like that. Blosxom only loads plugins whose names contain alphanumeric or underscore characters (i.e. A-Z, 0-9,...
Why don't my readme file contents show up in my blog?
When you create a readme or readme.html file, its contents will only be displayed when you navigate to that part of your blog: http://www.example/food/italian/ should display any readme or readme.html...
How can I access the entire URL in my plugin?
Use the CGI.pm module in the plugin: use CGI qw/:standard/; $url = url(); $path_info = path_info() You, unfortunately, can’t get to the #entry bit since that’s never sent to the Web server. That’s...
Where do I have to put the Tiki.pm file for the tiki plugin to work?
The tiki plugin assumes you’ve placed Tiki.pm in a Text subdirectory of your...
How do I detect the presence of another plugin?
All installed plug-ins: keys %blosxom::plugins All “on” plug-ins: grep {$blosxom::plugins{$_} > 0} keys %blosxom::plugins And if you’re interested in the order: print join ', ',...
How can I turn off a plugin for a certain flavour?
Use the config plugin and create a config.flavour (for the flavour you’d like it off) containing: $blosxom::plugins{'smartypants'} =...
How can I convert Moveable Type entries to Blosxom?
There’s a script Mt2blosxom available, described [[Yahoo:769...
New Blosxom plugin 'submission'
I’ve just written a plugin ‘submission‘ which provides Blosxom with a mechanism for accepting content POSTed to it. I wrote it initially as a mechanism for people to submit plugin information to the...
'Conneg' and the duality of weblogs.
Q: When is a blog not a blog? A: When it’s an RSS feed. I’ve pondered the relationship between weblog and RSS before, and in an Old Speckled Hen-induced philosophical state of mind, have decided for...
Tiki parser for MoinMoin
Tim Appnel recently created TikiText, a Wiki-like markup language for which Rael recently created a Blosxom plugin. While theoretically interesting, I wasn’t sure how I’d get to know and be able to...
Blosxom 2.0 Beta1
My favourite blogging software just got better. Congratulations to Rael in releasing the plugin-enabled 2.0 Beta1 of Blosxom. I dropped it into my cgi-bin directory, tweaked a few things, and it...
RSS aggregators and user-agent information for Blagg
Prompted by a post on the re-awakened WriteTheWeb, I made a small mod to Blagg so that more detailed information is sent in the User-Agent header – announcing that the RSS aggregator ‘blagg’ is the...