20 Aug
2013
20 Aug
'13
2:16 a.m.
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
)?
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