Hi James, Your workflow is popular, if you look at the forum you will find many posts about it! So, I may propose with the advent of many new features in 5.1.2x it is worth updating the workflow!
Best wishes Mohammad On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 6:08 PM James Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote a static blog exporter several years back for TW > > explanation of it here: > http://welford.github.io/twstaticblog/example/example.html > which itself exports to: > http://welford.github.io/twstaticblog/example/blog-styled/index.html > and > http://welford.github.io/twstaticblog/example/blog-basic/index.html > > i also use it for my personal blog here http://www.phasersonkill.com/ > > The thing is pretty flexible once you have it setup, most of what you want > could be achieved. " a sort of carousel widget with single sections from > the book, with arrows left and right to flip through them." might require a > little extra work though. > > On Saturday, 12 June 2021 at 14:45:19 UTC+1 TW Tones wrote: > >> As much as I value WordPress my personal belief is tiddlywiki would be >> ideal, I would start with others book style wikis to get going. >> >> I understand the value of static websites for search may be valuable >> however the interactive wiki offers much more. The compromise would be a >> static site on which every page link opens the interactive wiki, add a >> splash screen to inform them you are loading the whole book for easy search. >> >> I started building a template to support this but not completed it yet. >> Hopefully someone has done it and can share a revised template for its >> export. >> If you can serve a node implementation securely on the internet would be >> better and it can automatically serve both static and interactive content. >> >> By the way 70,000 words with an average length 490,000 characters, Not >> even half a Megabyte is trivial, I have happily used 6-12Mb single file >> wikis without any concern. >> >> Tones >> >> On Friday, 11 June 2021 at 23:03:06 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> As much as I love TiddlyWiki and think it could work for your use cases, >>> I feel I would be remiss to not point out another option: *WordPress* >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, June 11, 2021 at 7:37:42 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Kosmaton >>>> >>>> You could use TiddlyWiki in node.js, and export and upload tiddlers to >>>> your free webhosting service as static htmls, no database needed. With some >>>> CSS, you could design it as you wish, in a way that it doesn't look >>>> TiddlyWiki-ish, and there are plugins to make the layout mobile-friendly. >>>> The book page, home page and news page are all doable. The book page could >>>> be handled with details elements (HTML, not the details widget plugin) and >>>> transclusions. So yes, everything you mentioned can be done. >>>> >>>> Alternately, you could do the same with a regular standalone TW >>>> uploaded to your free webhosting service. Doing it as a standalone means >>>> the opening page would not load as quickly as a small static html page, but >>>> most people wouldn't notice the difference, and it would give you many more >>>> options for how to handle the book page, for example the table of contents >>>> feature in TiddlyWiki. >>>> >>>> What might not work, though I may be wrong, is having a user comments >>>> section, but then you did not mention that. I know there is at least one >>>> user comments plugin, but I haven't played with it. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 3:28:54 PM UTC-5 Kosmaton wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello Tiddly people, >>>>> >>>>> I'm meaning to create a new website, and I'd like to ask your opinion >>>>> whether TiddlyWiki is the right tool (or one of the tools) for it. >>>>> >>>>> I used to have a pre-TW5 site on TiddlySpace back in the day. I'm >>>>> semi-programming-and-webdesign-literate, in an ad hoc and rusty way. No >>>>> experience with databases unfortunately, which may be relevant. >>>>> >>>>> The website I have in mind would be a combination of a non-fiction >>>>> book (already written, but expandable/changeable), and an associated blog. >>>>> The book is organized as a big tree of numbered paragraphs/sections: 1, >>>>> 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 2, 2.1 etc. These sections frequently refer to one >>>>> another; it's a hypertext in itself. >>>>> >>>>> * The site would mainly need to have: >>>>> >>>>> 1) a page that displays the book, with a Table of Contents. >>>>> - The TOC should be hideable as a whole. >>>>> - The branches of the TOC should be collapsible, i.e. click on 1 to >>>>> show 1.1 and 1.2, click again to hide them, etc. >>>>> - It may be excessive to load all the text of the book (all the >>>>> sections) into the viewport (some 70,000 words). But it would be nice if >>>>> the reader saw a bit more than just the section they're currently reading. >>>>> Basically a pdf-reader-like experience would be good. >>>>> - optional: Sections of the book may get revisions, and the visitor >>>>> should be able to see the revisions. (This would probably get a lot more >>>>> complicated if I want to allow for reordering, deletion and creation of >>>>> sections...) >>>>> - The book currently exists as a LibreOffice Writer .odt file, with >>>>> sections actually organized as headings. Ideally I'd like to automate the >>>>> process of getting them into the TiddlyWiki. >>>>> >>>>> 2) a blog/news page >>>>> - Blog posts are expected to regularly contain links to book >>>>> sections, or entire transcluded sections. >>>>> - Posts must be able to acommodate audio files; a regular HTML >>>>> <audio controls> seems sufficient. >>>>> >>>>> 3) a Home page that could e.g. display >>>>> - the most recent blog post (truncated if necessary) >>>>> - a sort of carousel widget with single sections from the book, with >>>>> arrows left and right to flip through them. These sections could be either >>>>> randomly taken from the whole book, or from a hand-picked subset of >>>>> sections (which I should be able to adjust). >>>>> >>>>> * The thing really ought to be 'responsive', i.e. look fine on small >>>>> screens too. This might not be obvious for something like the TOC. >>>>> >>>>> * Towards the visitor it should not present a very TiddlyWikish face. >>>>> I'm keen to acknowledge/praise/recommend TW in the About page; but the >>>>> casual visitor should not focus on the underlying tech. >>>>> >>>>> * I don't intend to have a server of my own. The free webhost I've >>>>> happily used before allows for up to 2 databases, with a choice between >>>>> "5.7-MySQL . 10.5-MariaDB . 13.2-PgSQL". >>>>> >>>>> So: >>>>> >>>>> Does this sound feasible with TW5 as a base? (Or would you suggest >>>>> some other framework? If it's /challenging/ with TW, but /easy&fun/ with >>>>> XYZ, I'd like to hear about XYZ too! :) >>>>> >>>>> How would I set this up as far as server / databases etc. go? >>>>> >>>>> If I go ahead with this, there's bound to be more detailed questions >>>>> regarding the functionalities mentioned above; but if you already see any >>>>> immediate solutions (plugins, say) please shout. >>>>> >>>>> Apologies for the length of this post. I don't expect anyone to figure >>>>> all this out for me, but any thoughts are very welcome. Many thanks in >>>>> advance! >>>>> >>>>> K. >>>>> >>>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/742d1568-581b-49ca-87d7-deae9696323an%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/742d1568-581b-49ca-87d7-deae9696323an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAAV1gMAKyYV9V9S9exBs5KsiuSjx2py-nrn4%2BZ%3DcNKEeNDYPKQ%40mail.gmail.com.
