I might do, I've not really found a short version of what will stop working when 5.2 is released. but i'd like to keep all my plugins up to date.
On Sunday, 13 June 2021 at 16:42:41 UTC+1 Mohammad wrote: > 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/ee9f2726-1c34-4c97-a060-3f959922a029n%40googlegroups.com.
