pyblosxom-devel

[Pyblosxom-devel] Blogger-like archive tree

[Marius G. <ma...@ge...>]

Happy New Year, everyone!

I've written a plugin to render a Blogger-like dynamic archive tree in
the sidebar of my blog (http://mg.pov.lt/blog/).

If anyone's interested, the code is at http://bit.ly/dQIF76 [1]

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mgedmin/%2Bjunk/blog/annotate/head%3A/plugins/tree.py
    is the ungainly and ugly full URL, *sigh* Bazaar *sigh*

Marius Gedminas
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Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] Blogger-like archive tree

[Dieter P. <di...@pl...>]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 14:13:11 +0200
Marius Gedminas <ma...@ge...> wrote:

> Happy New Year, everyone!
> 
> I've written a plugin to render a Blogger-like dynamic archive tree in
> the sidebar of my blog (http://mg.pov.lt/blog/).
> 
> If anyone's interested, the code is at http://bit.ly/dQIF76 [1]
> 
> [1]
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mgedmin/%2Bjunk/blog/annotate/head%3A/plugins/tree.py
> is the ungainly and ugly full URL, *sigh* Bazaar *sigh*
> 
> Marius Gedminas

Something i've always pondered:
why do people care so much about dates on blogs?
i mean, many blog systems have url's like /<date>/entry.html
and PB also separates content by date (by default) on the front page,
and then those time-based selectors.

when i search for content on a blog, i always try to search by category
or tag (or even type author name + subject in google), because the
content of a post usually has no particular relation to a date.

Dieter

Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] Blogger-like archive tree

[will kahn-g. <wi...@bl...>]

I disagree that the content of a post has no relation to a date--it has
every relation to a date because that's the day the person wrote it in
the context of what he/she was doing and all the other things in his/her
life.

I treat my blog like an online journal and often refer to my date-based
archives to figure out when I was doing things.  I do this with other
peoples' blogs, too.  I find it really annoying when people don't
provide date-based archives especially when they're referring to prior
posts without linking to them.

I think date-based urls are also good for uniqueness.  I may write
several blog posts about my status on a certain project and all those
posts will have the same tags and category, but they'll be at different
date-based urls.


On 01/01/2011 08:05 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 14:13:11 +0200
> Marius Gedminas <ma...@ge...> wrote:
> 
>> Happy New Year, everyone!
>>
>> I've written a plugin to render a Blogger-like dynamic archive tree in
>> the sidebar of my blog (http://mg.pov.lt/blog/).
>>
>> If anyone's interested, the code is at http://bit.ly/dQIF76 [1]
>>
>> [1]
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mgedmin/%2Bjunk/blog/annotate/head%3A/plugins/tree.py
>> is the ungainly and ugly full URL, *sigh* Bazaar *sigh*
>>
>> Marius Gedminas
> 
> Something i've always pondered:
> why do people care so much about dates on blogs?
> i mean, many blog systems have url's like /<date>/entry.html
> and PB also separates content by date (by default) on the front page,
> and then those time-based selectors.
> 
> when i search for content on a blog, i always try to search by category
> or tag (or even type author name + subject in google), because the
> content of a post usually has no particular relation to a date.
> 
> Dieter

Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] Blogger-like archive tree

[Marius G. <ma...@ge...>]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 12:01:51PM -0500, will kahn-greene wrote:
> I think date-based urls are also good for uniqueness.  I may write
> several blog posts about my status on a certain project and all those
> posts will have the same tags and category, but they'll be at different
> date-based urls.

Can PyBlosxom support date-based URLs?

Marius Gedminas
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Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] Blogger-like archive tree

[Will Kahn-G. <wi...@bl...>]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 12:01:51PM -0500, will kahn-greene wrote:
>> I think date-based urls are also good for uniqueness.  I may write
>> several blog posts about my status on a certain project and all those
>> posts will have the same tags and category, but they'll be at different
>> date-based urls.
>
> Can PyBlosxom support date-based URLs?

Out of the box, PyBlosxom supports date-based archives.  It should be easy 
to write a plugin that does date-based urls like what WordPress does.

I'm not sure if that answers your question or not.

Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] Blogger-like archive tree

[Marius G. <ma...@ge...>]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 09:20:24PM -0500, Will Kahn-Greene wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >Can PyBlosxom support date-based URLs?
> 
> Out of the box, PyBlosxom supports date-based archives.  It should
> be easy to write a plugin that does date-based urls like what
> WordPress does.
> 
> I'm not sure if that answers your question or not.

It does, thanks.  Specifically:

 - the core doesn't support it
 - it's possible to implement with a plugin
 - the plugin should be easy
 - nobody has written such a plugin

Marius Gedminas
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