[Web4lib] Category-centric blogs

[Dobbs, Aaron]

Another way to do what you are describing (reverse chronological listing
within set categories) is Bulletin Board or Discussion Forum style
software.
PHPbb or Snitz forums type software will do what you describe; an RSS
plug-in will be needed to syndicate feeds, but I think they've come a
long way since I last evaluated (early 2003) these types of services.

-Aaron
:-)'

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of D.H. Mattison
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:00 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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