The sidebar says that '17 of us say "to set page dates to past dates or future dates!!"' And this blog post is a good demonstration why. I spent two days driving from Brussels to Zurich and back, and meanwhile failed to post a Tuesday Rant.
It's Tuesday here in Scotland. Will be all day. What is Tuesday? Tuesday is the day of rant ("le jour de la harangue"). But we get to Tuesday and what do we find? Nothing. No sign of the rant page whatsover. I've looked behind the sofa and tortured my children with soft cushions to see if they had hidden it, but no, no sign of the page at all.
I have to agree. It would have been so easy for me to post a Rant, a day in advance, and pretend to be happily blogging while actually driving down the Rhine valley in the summer heat. So, this is the Tuesday Rant, despite the fact that it's published on a Thursday.
:-) My rant is about the %%author%% variable in listpages and live templates. It displays as a [[*user author]]. I only want the username without the "user".
EDIT: Already posted here: http://pro.wikidot.com/ticket:344
Kenneth Tsang (@jxeeno)
Indeed! There should be an %%author_name%% variable that has no wiki formatting.
Yes.
Seconded.
Thirded!
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My rant is two things:
1. There was no Tuesday rant
2. The list pages should have the count variable, not a new module.
Indeed… this would be the logical way to go…
My assumption is that this was done to prevent all of the heavy server load associated with ListPages lately…
Is ListPages still limited at 250 results per page (or a similar number) ?
My guess is that CountPages was created as a separate module so that it could have no limit whilst leaving ListPages at 250.
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Perhaps there could be a way to queue pages to go live at a certain day/time in the future. It would add greatly to the complexity but might be useful for bloggers.
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
The idea is that ListPages won't show a postdated page. (Maybe with a showFuture="yes" option it would.)
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Indeed again!
Edit: There is already javascript code that Wikidot uses to calculate the length of time between a date and the current date. It returns a negative number of seconds after the current date instead. A simple non-negative integer check would tell the ListPages module to ignore that page.
ListPages could simply be consistent with the search syntax:
http://www.wikidot.com/doc:searching
but predating could be also useful.
Second that.
I would really like the capability to do both.
Pre-dating and post-dating would be useful to me, too.
I gave my vote, now! I wasn't sure what that meant until I read Rob's post:
This will be very useful for me. Then, I could have dynamic front page content. I could programm the change of the front page contents each two or three days. Now i change it once a month, manually…
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Wikidot, more than a wiki ?
If you add
… you have a CMS.
What's CMS?
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
CoMing Soon.
No, kidding: Content Management System, a way of publishing stuff to a website in a controlled fashion.
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What happened with the wikidot arrow? I don't want to click my user name, and then have to click my account!!! I liked the arrow. Was this asked, or just done, because if it was just done, without asking what people think, then thats not a good thing.
(If it was announced in an e-mail update, then I didn't get it. I don't know why I don't receive updates.)
I do not know why and if this is a wished effect:
The arrow for the little and helpful menu ( to remember it - it is explained in http://handbook.wikidot.com/en:logout-from-wikidot) is not longer available!
What has happened ?
A lonesome decision?
Without this downarrow we have to click on "my_account" - hidden on the user-id and than go to the menu point we want… a long way for a short - clean - link
(most used are the PM's by me)
I inserted a ticket ( bug) on the Pro-site: http://pro.wikidot.com/ticket:346
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Thanks for pointing this out. It is not normal.
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