[pmwiki-users] [O-T] Re: Blog proposal

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:06:53PM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > * Posting a blog entry is as simple as adding (:blog:) to the markup
> >   of any page.  When a page containing (:blog:) is saved, that page
> >   is automatically added to the blog trail page if it's not already
> >   listed.  (The author must have write permissions to the blog trail
> >   page.)
> > 
> > * An author can use (:blog OtherBlogTrail:) to post the current page
> >   to blog trails other than the default.
> 
> I wonder if it might not be a good idea to let authors easily add the 
> current page a trail page in general? I've structured the wiki.lyx.org so 
> that I've got pages called 'PageList' in each group, so that there is a 
> documenation trail for people to follow.
> 
> One problem is that it's not so easy for infrequent authors to know about 
> this when creating a new page... so something like this might help. OTOH, 
> how would they know about writing the equivalent of (:blog ...:).
> 
> So what if we could have a field in the edit page (perhaps only when 
> creating the page the first time), which let's the author either fill in 
> the name of the trail page, or simply check a box to have it added to the 
> default trail page? (The name of that trail page would need to be shown).

Ick.  Better is to have an option that causes a page containing
trail markup to be automatically added to the trail.  :-)

Pm