“Your plugin has been assimilated”
It’s with some amusement that I saw a question on the blosxom list go from my own hapless contribution to a full fledged plugin in less than 24 hours. (The gory details are here.)
My idea was
category_desc,
the code was Stu McKenzie’s. I guess I’ll take up the baton and write
some documentation.
The basic premise was that I wanted to provide a more detailed
description of a category when viewing its “front page”
(http://www.foo.com/blog/bar/ for the category “bar”, for example.)
The link between categories and descriptions is in the %descriptions
hash. This hash is accesses by the head sub and the variable
$category_desc::description is accessible in the head.foo flavour.
Caveats: you have to know how to write Perl for this plugin to work for you.
You can see it in action at http://gustaf.symbiandiaries.com/weblog/alt.
You can also do this with the config plugin and with
postheadprefoot. In both those cases, a file has to be created in
each category directory. This method keeps everyhing in a central
place.
Update 2005-08-28: the information is now available in the story flavour too: Stu explains it here.
Update 2006-03-02: you can get the plugin here.
Updated on Thursday, 2006-03-02.
Posted at 10:39,
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