Wiki Add
MURPHY’S LAW: When you test something over and over again and think you have it all set for deployment, it will inexplicably FAIL when you finally declare it operational.
After numerous tests this afternoon, the plugin was working perfectly. Now it is not doing anything. No errors, no nothing. CRAP!
Update: See Test Post
Update2:(Jan. 8, 2006) For those visitors interested in the Wikiadd plugin, it’s been deactivated since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.0. If I do reinstall it, I’ll take a closer look at the SQL queries and function parameters. I noticed during the first installation, that the tables in the previous version of Wordpress may have had some differences in the names that were used. The plugin didn’t hurt anything, but it didn’t work as well as I would have liked, either.
A plugin for this blog that will post selected content on the TrueNorth teacher wiki is now up and running deactivated. This is a very cool integration of Wordpress and Wikka Wiki, two applications that are now were “talking to each other.” I want to use the wiki as a repository for some things that I can also write about on Borderland.
The plugin is configured to put anything I categorize as teacher research into the wiki, creating a wiki page that converts the blog title into a WikiName and to display the link to the wiki page on the bottom of the post. The wiki page is also linked back to the blog. One problem I had was that the wiki is configured to require user login for authoring. A function in the plugin needed to be customized slightly to deal with that. Otherwise, it was all pretty straightforward.
Now I won’t have I still had to to copy and paste in order to include relevant blog posts in the wiki [because the posts longer than a few lines weren't written to the database] If you solve this problem, please let me know.
DarTar wrote,
Hi Doug,
thanks for finding this out. The WikiAdd plugin - as you know - is not part of the official Wikka release, but it’s user-contributed code. So why don’t you contact the author (http://www.zylstra.org/) or - better - try to convince him to discuss his plugin with the Wikka community (either on the website or on IRC) and fix these annoying issues
Good luck and keep us posted!
Dario
Link | June 27th, 2005 at 4:09 am
Ton Zijlstra wrote,
Hi Doug
thanks for trying out my attempt at a plug in!
As to wikifying longer blogposts:
I have tried it out myself and can reproduce the problem. Not sure why it is not working. Also I now seem to run into problems even with wikifying smaller postings. My first hunch is that it might have something to do with using a newer version of Wikka Wiki, and perhaps changed table structures.
Another point might be that the overall length of the SQL statement creating the page in the Wikka database is a problem. Not sure.
Your other point, about not updating the wiki-page when the blogposting is updated, is a deliberate thing. Basically by adding the blogposting to the wiki, you create a fork. Now two copies exist, one in the database of the blog, one in the wiki-database. Chances are that if you change your blogposting later on, the wiki page also has gone through changes in the mean time. Simply putting the altered blogposting in the wiki again would overwrite previous changes already made in the wiki. In my personal reasoning I saw the wiki as the place to do the editing, with a backlink to the blog for the original (and a link in the blog to the wiki of course). Having to weigh different changes in the blog and the wiki in order to decide which one to use would be a coding nightmare, and probably of little practical use.
Link | June 28th, 2005 at 1:26 am