I just wanted to add a pointer to a posting on the Serendipity Forums: In A wiki in my Serendipity blog, TimothyP outlines a plugin that can import external Wiki links and combine it with the staticpages plugin to make those wiki-style pages available in your blog. As he's looking for feedback, anyone care to give some? :-)
Today I have committed version 0.2 of the cachesimple plugin. It features:
It is very important for the plugin's full performance that you place the cachesimple plugin as your first plugin in the Event plugin queue. The only plugins that should come before this plugin are
(if you do not want to loose their functionality, that is)
If the plugin is not first in the queue, it results in all the other plugins being initialised before the cachesimple plugin is able to exit the serendipity Framework.
Feedback, improvements/patches and reports if this breaks any functionality is heartly welcome. The plugin should be available in spartacus tomorrow, you can of course download the diff from the URL location above; this should be available in a few hours.
I have prepared a patch which allows the plugin interface to be a bit more intuitive.
It combines the spartacus/external plugins into the same interface you use to install downloaded plugins, so this is now one large list of plugins. The new list also allows to be grouped by one level of categories.
Some plugins in the list, and some spartacus plugins have been given the new "group" property so that you can play with the patch.
For the interface to load faster I have created an intermediate cache, that stores the plugin metadata and makes it retrievable easier on the interface. The upside of this is that the list of plugins is now much faster created.
This may possibly cause a lot of trouble, so do not apply this patch in a working environment. Only use it for fun and report back to me how you like it.
In a future step, the new (localized!) plugin XML metadata can be used easier on a pear.php.net like interface.
The patch can be found here: http://blog.s9y.org/uploads/plugincat.diff
UPDATE: New diff file http://blog.s9y.org/uploads/plugincat2.diff supports Template downloading via Smartacus, uhm Spartacus. :-)
UPDATE 2: New diff file http://blog.s9y.org/uploads/plugincat3.diff contains support for alternate file mirrors. The list of mirrors will hopefully be updated soon to contain some backup locations.
I have received new upstream releases for the Tagging-Plugin by Jonathan Arkell and a 0.9 compatible version of the googlesitemap plugin by Sebastian Wiesinger. Thank you very much, guys!
The revamped version of the Tagging plugin by Jonathan now supports easier maintaining of the tags, as well as refactored code and better styling/RSS+Technorati integration. Weightings and Intersections of Tags has also been improved, but there is still some pending work needed to get it to work with postgreSQL.
Both have been committed to CVS and should be upgradable in Spartacus the next 24 hours. If you have any issues with the new plugin versions, please report them here.
A user-contribution by Boris, Plugin Google Sitemap, allows to create the new Googlebot-compatible sitemap layout for most of all Serendipity links.
I think it may not run smoothly with Serendipity 0.9 and a customized permalink structure, but it should not be too hard to adapt the plugin there. Apart from that I think it's a really nice plugin, thanks to Boris!
A new plugin called serendipity_event_assigncategories ("Category Assignment") has been added to CVS. It allows to easily change the category assignemnts of all articles. It can be very helpful if you decide to add a new category to your blog and would like to sort special entries to those new categories.
The plugin will be available in Spartacus soon and has already been committed to CVS.