20 Aug
2013
20 Aug
'13
9:07 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:16 AM, crocket <crockabiscuit(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm still using XWiki 4.3 milestone 1 on
my personal web server.
> >
> > It is not very useable as a blog since
>
> > 1) very wide images aren't resized to fit the width of the blog
>
> Couldn't you limit the size of the images either through wiki syntax (
> [[image:foo.png||width="200px"]] ) or through CSS ( max-width: 200px
> )?
>
The size should be adjusted automatically without any
funny CSS or width
configuration.
It is as simple as specifying the width when you insert an image in a
blog post using the WYSIWYG editor and you know that the image won't
fit the screen size. Each blog post is unique so the author must know
what images he's going to insert (unless you are generating the blog
posts automatically from some external source you don't control).
Plus, I doubt you have tons of images to insert (in that case I
recommend you to use the gallery macro). Moreover, the editor allows
you to create a link to view the original image, when the user clicks
on the resized image. So I don't see the problem here, sorry.
Otherwise, I'd end up coding a blog on top of
XWiki.
Probably.
I guess wordpress is a perfect fit for a blog starter.
I'm sad that I need XWiki for a wiki and wordpress for a blog.
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2) There don't seem to be pingback or other
XXXbacks used to communicate
with other blog articles.
I don't know anything about this, so nothing changes on this part I guess.
3) For non-web devs or non-technical people, it
is not easy to change
themes or customize UI to make it look like a blog.
Nothing changed here. You can use either the Color Themes (for
non-technical people) or you can customize the skin of the Blog space
but you need to know a bit of CSS (and maybe some HTML/Velocity).
The latest stable release is 5.1 now.
Has it become useable for me?
If you're using XWiki only for the blog application then I think there
are better alternatives (blog platforms) that were made specifically
for this. XWiki's main goal is IMO to help you and your peers organize
your information in a collaborative way. The new things that 5.1
brings compared to 4.3M1 are: new search engine based on Solr, virtual
mode is on by default, new security module, new localization module,
improved Distribution Wizard and Extension Manager in general.
Hope this helps,
Marius