{"id":29,"date":"2003-09-10T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/WebDev\/Blosxom\/plugins\/editing.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2003\/09\/10\/editing\/","title":{"rendered":"On Editing Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I author (and edit) my blog entries using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\/plugins\/edit\/wikieditish.htm\" title=\"Wikieditish Plugin for Blosxom\">wikieditish<\/a> plugin for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\" title=\"The Blosxom Homepage\">Blosxom<\/a>.  I write nearly all of my content using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\/plugins\/text\/textile.htm\" title=\"Textile Plugin for Blosxom\">textile plugin<\/a>.  While this arrangement works, it isn&#8217;t perfect.  For example, to show an example xml , I have to escape the  in the editor.  If I need to edit the entry after it is posted, however, encoded characters are unencoded in the textarea of the edit form.  This means I have to remember to re-encode such things.<\/p>\n<p>This, and other desired features, is leading me to consider building a new editing plugin for Blosxom.  Features I want:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Play nice with other plugins, such as textile, wikiwordish, smartypants, others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>render <em>exactly<\/em> what&#8217;s in the disk file to the edit box, handling escaping on the way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>option (checkbox, metatag?) to mark article as being interpolate-fancy exempt; causes auto-escaping of &lt;&#039;s, making it easier to post sample xml text, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Preview feature.  Saves post with alternate extension, then runs the article through Blosxom in some way that recongnizes the extention, letting you see the post <em>in context of your flavour template(s)<\/em>, without posting to the world; while viewing you can return to re-edit or elect to post.  This means seeing content via your standard template, <span class=\"caps\">PLUS<\/span> seeing some kind of editing interface.  Perhaps a popup, or frame, or maybe edit plugin fiddles your flavour template directly?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Checkboxes (maybe even backed by server- or client-cookie- based preferences) for auto-inserting commonly used meta-tags like meta-markup:textile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>This may just be a matter of flavor templating the editing form (a la wikieditish), but I want to see hints for the plugins I use, like textile, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>more secure passwording than wikieditish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>would-be-nice-needs-more-thought: ability to accept posts<br>\nvia the nAtom <span class=\"caps\">API<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m just pushing the thoughts around inside my head at the moment.  If you have additional features you&#8217;d like to see in an editing plugin, click the comment link below. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I author (and edit) my blog entries using the wikieditish plugin for Blosxom. I write nearly all of my content using the textile plugin. While this arrangement works, it isn&#8217;t perfect. For example, to show an example xml , I have to escape the in the editor. If I need to edit the entry after [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}