Development – Einträge für Februar 2006

In the past, several users wanted the ability to tell Serendipity that specific markup plugins shall not be applied to specific entries.

Until now, Serendipity applied markup plugins globally to every entry, without any distinction. Today I have committed a patch that enhances the "Extended options of Entries" plugin to specify, if specific markup plugins should NOT be applied to an entry.

This now enables you to create entries where you don't want to use the nl2br or Wiki markup. Plus, with some basic coding skills you can add new markup plugins which don't affect past entries, if you create the required entryproperty for those past entries that disable the markup plugin.

The feature has been committed to the SVN 1.1-alpha trunk and also to the affected plugins in our Spartacus repository. The change is backwards compatible, so nothing will change if you either don't use the functionality or do not make any settings to the list of disabled markups.

I am currently working on Image directory permissions and including some other "unstable" stuff. I'll need to put it into SVN trunk so that other people can help developing.

Thus I've just created the "1.0" SVN branch point which holds the 1.0 branch and possibly upcoming 1.0.x maintenance releases.

SVN "trunk" is now the new, testing "1.1-alpha1" playground.

Developers, please commit fixes to both the branch AND trunk. Do not check out trunk if you need a stable system.

Users, if you need a stable system, please download the 1.0-beta1 release candidate or wait for the upcoming 1.0 final. Do not use the nightly snapshots if you depend on a stable system. B0rkage could happen, even though we give our best so that it doesn't.

I've committed a new plugin called "Free Wiki links for your entries" (serendipity_event_wikilinks) to the CVS repository and thus Spartacus.

This plugin adds a very basic wiki principle to your frontend: You can use links to create new entries. Actually, this functionality is basically also available within the "Wiki Markup" plugin, but I must admit I never got a grasp on that plugin, so I created a new one for that sole purpose.

You can now include links like [[my title]] in your entries. Either they resolve to already existing titles in your blog, or they will show an entry creation link for people which are logged in to the blog.

This plugin currently is only an expermental stub, but maybe already useful for some people. So have fun!