Blosxom 2.1.1 released

Hi,

I just released Blosxom 2.1.1 which fixes the two issues discussed on
blosxom-devel today respectively the last few days.

>From the ChangeLog:

v2.1.1
    * The "never trust a dot zero release" bugfix release for 2.1.0.
    * Added CVS Id keyword to file header.
    * Declaring $encode_xml_entities as a config option by moving it into
      the config section -- no functionality change.
    * Changing isPermalink back to "false" for the default RSS story
      template because it won't be a working link in many situations.
      This won't change the GUID, but don't let it be used as 
      anymore. That's what the <link> tag is for anyway. Thanks to Lilo
      von Hanffstengel for pointing this out.
    * Rewrote the (at least with Apache 2.2's environment) no more working
      manual base URL detection code. Made it simpler, easier to
      understand and let it only apply, if the base URL was not set
      manually. The concept since 2.0.2 was: Always ask for the whole URI
      and then remove the PATH_INFO in some cases again. This caused some
      havoc. New concept is: Strip PATH_INFO from base URL if CGI.pm
      didn't manage to do it. In those rare cases where neither CGI.pm nor
      Blosxom manages to correctly determine the base URL, you can easily
      set $url in the config file to the correct value and no base URL
      magic happens anymore (except the removing of a trailing slash if
      present -- as before). Closes: #2032685
    * Added a lot of comments explaining the fixed problems and the
      remaining seldom cases where manual configuration is necessary.

New plugin: head_meta-v0.1b

To use the expression, I had an itch that needed scratching.  I 
couldn't find any existing bloxsom plugins to do what I needed, so I wrote 
something.  If I've reinvented some wagon wheel I didn't know 
about, I'd appreciate a pointer to something better.

My first working version of head_meta determines the meta tags for 
the top story on the page (using the meta plugin), and caches them so 
that they can be used in the head and foot templates.  The goal was 
to be able to have unique keywords and page description meta tags in the
head section of the html for each  story.  This is valuable for many
search engine optimization strategies.

This plugin seems to be working OK now on my site at: http://www.wildebeat.net/

I had to rename the meta plugin to "0meta" so that it would load 
before head-meta.  I know there's a better way to do this, but I 
don't know what that is.

I've pasted the code into this e-mail, below.  As you'll see, it
really doesn't have any documentation yet.  Once I've done some more
testing (and if I get any feedback), I'll create another version and
make it available on my web site.

-----SNIP-----
# Blosxom Plugin: head_meta
# Author(s):  Steve Sergeant <stevesgt@...>
# Version: 0.1b of 20080722
# Blosxom Home/Docs/Licensing: http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/
# Blosxom Plugin Docs: http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/plugin.shtml

Settings from .ini file ignored (running under paste)

Hello.

I am just trying to run pyblosxom (1.4.3, installed using
"easy_install pyblosxom") under Paste.

It looks like, contrary to docs, settings from .ini file are
not used (those which were intended to override config.py)

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Config Plugin

I have never been able to get the config plugin working correctly,  
and am not sure if I am doing things right.

I copied the 00config file to $datadir/category/config

Even though I have specified 10 posts in this config, I still only  
get the 1 specified in the master configuration.

Am I doing this wrong?

-Ryan

I added the following lines so the file looks like this:

# Blosxom Plugin: config
# Author(s): Rael Dornfest <rael@...>
# Version: 2003-03-18
# Documentation: See the bottom of this file or type: perldoc config

# WARNING: DO NOT PUT CONFIG FILES IN WORLD-READABLE PLACES SUCH AS  
WITHIN
# YOUR DOCUMENT ROOT.  IF YOUR $DATADIR IS LOCATED WITHIN YOUR  
DOCUMENT ROOT,
# I HEARTILY ADVISE THAT YOU MOVE IT.  WHILE MOST OF THE CONFIGURATION
# DIRECTIVES ARE INNOCUOUS ENOUGH, IT'S A SLIPPERY SLOPE AND YOU  
MIGHT WELL
# FIND YOU'VE EXPOSED YOUR STATIC PASSWORD OR INTERNAL DIRECTORY  
STRUCTURE
# TO ANYONE WITH A WEB BROWSER!

my hack to add captcha support to writeback plugin

There are two patches, one for the plugin file and one for
foot.writeback. This is just a basic implementation, and relies on
Authen::Captcha from CPAN. YMMV. Change the directories in five
places, 4 in the plugin and 1 in the foot.

http://kunwon1.com/writeback_captcha_patches/writeback.captcha.patch.txt
http://kunwon1.com/writeback_captcha_patches/foot.writeback.captcha.patch.txt

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Inline images

I must be missing something obvious. I can't include inline images in my blog.

For example:

category view:
http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/support/bloxsom/index.cgi/photography
shows only the text.

pernament link to  story shows broken images:
http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/support/bloxsom/index.cgi/2008/06/01#a_day_at_castelldefels_beach__spain
pernament link to individual posting shows images properly:
http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/support/bloxsom/index.cgi/photography/a_day_at_castelldefels_beach__spain.html

I am including them with regular "img src=....." tags.

What am I missing here?

Thanks.

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Moreentries bug fix, and HTTP Last-Modified header

Sorry for disappearing from the development for a while.  Real Live has
been intervening and it looks as though it will be around for a while yet.

In the meantime I'd like to publish a minor bugfix to moreentries whcih
builds on Steve Schwarz's version 0.3.  Steve, feel free if you wish to
grab this and hack further on it.

The bug I fixed was to do with directory names containing regexp special
characters - in my case a '+' sign - which got interpreted as part of
the regular expression.  Adding \Q to the regexp causes them to be quoted
rather than interpreted.

I also added some changes to make Blosxom safe for modular use including
"use strict", which is something I am working on as a longer term project.

http://www.leverton.org/blosxom/Software/Projects/Blosxom/moreentries.html

I've also done a very simple plugin to add HTTP Last-Modified header.
I hope that this will reduce the frequency with which Googlebot, Yahoo
Slurp and MSNbot try to crawl my site, by telling them the modification
date on each story page !

http://www.leverton.org/blosxom/Software/Projects/Blosxom/last_modified.html

Nick

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No-blank-page plug-in?

Does anyone know of a "no blank pages" plug-in?  What I'm looking for 
is a Blosxom plug-in that will, if a URL addresses a date range that 
contains no articles, or an article-specific page that doesn't exist, 
causes some administrator-defined default redirection?

For example:

If http://host.domain.tld/blosxom.cgi/2008/06/01 doesn't contain any 
articles, or http://host.domain.tld/blosxom.cgi/no-story.html doesn't 
exist, then a meta-refresh line could be added to head.html to 
instead redirect to some other URL.  Normally, Blosxom would just 
display a page with no articles.  Another alternative would be a 
default story file that Blosxom would insert as if it was the story 
requested, in a file that looks just like a Blosxom story.

Does such a plug-in exist?

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css plugin - patch for css naked day

Hello,

yesterday was CSS naked day for 24 hours. No, that's nothing ugly or inmoral.
This is a initiative to show a webpage without styles.
The goal is to promote webstandards.
You can read more about it at <http://naked.dustindiaz.com/>.

The plugin disables css between April 9th and April 10th.

Now my plugin css as attachment.

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Regards from Germany
Lilo
Webmistress - Perl programmer - Dragoness

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