[Web4lib] Category-centric blogs

[JB Bryant]

David:

Thanks. I've often thought that conceptually a Wiki is little more than
a blog reorganized. And I've thought that I might use a Wiki rather than
a blog to do what I've requested. Glad to read someone else suggesting
that might be the answer.

jb


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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of D.H. Mattison
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:00 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Category-centric blogs

WordPress is the way to go: it's free and open source. But, I agree with
Bill Drew, that blogs are inherently chronological, and I don't believe
there are any blogging platforms that run out-of-the-box and would
support
the option of displaying your entries first by category and then by
date.
Even a crossover, open source content management system such as Drupal
is
inherently chronological. Since WordPress is open source, you could
attempt
to modify the PHP to do this. WordPress is fairly well documented and
there's a good community of practice through the WordPress Codex.

Another method by which you could achieve a category-centric display
would
be to use wiki software such as MediaWiki (the Wikipedia software). Many
libraries have chosen this. The current version is relatively easy to
set up
(I have a test version running on my personal site). You can turn off
user
registration and all anonymous input as well.

David Mattison
Victoria, BC, Canada
dmattison at shaw.ca 
Tiki Wiki Hut: http://www.davidmattison.ca/tiki
Ten Thousand Year Blog: http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress

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