Editing Blosxom, PHPosxom, and Other Compatible Weblogs
By Robert Daeley, 5 February 2003
This page describes how to configure NetNewsWire to edit your Blosxom, PHPosxom, and other compatible weblogs with NetNewsWire.
Add Weblog
In NetNewsWire, open the Preferences window and click the Weblogs button at the top of the window. Then click the Add Weblog button—or click the Edit button if you’re editing the settings for an existing weblog.
Basic Tab Preferences
In the Weblog Name section, type the name of your weblog. The Home URL should point to the homepage of your weblog.
Username and Password are not needed for Blosxom and Blosxom-compatible sites.
RPC Tab Preferences
From the System popup menu, choose Blosxom or PHPosxom. (Choose Blosxom for other Blosxom-compatible systems.) This will set APIs for you automatically—you don’t have to do anything in that section.
In the Folder text box, enter the local path to your blog. This will correspond to the $datadir variable set in Blosxom’s preferences. If you’d rather, you can click on the Choose... button and navigate to the folder. So, for example, if your blog’s folder is inside your Sites folder and called blog, the path would be /Users/username/Sites/blog
Script is optional. It’s called when an item is posted. A %@ is replaced with the path to the file just posted. (One use of a script might be to synchronize your local files with files on a server.)
Here’s a screenshot of a sample configuration.
Posts Tab Preferences
Turn off the first two checkboxes about automatically generating <p> paragraph tags. Blosxom and PHPosxom take care of this for you.
The third option, Add source attribution, is up to you, but it’s good form to properly attribute the source of stories one posts.
The last option allows you specify whether or not you want to make up your own file names when creating a new Blosxom post. If you check the box, then NetNewsWire will ask you for a filename whenever you create a new post. Otherwise it will automatically create a filename based on the post’s title.
Blosxom/PHPosxom Settings
Nothing special needs to be set in the preferences for Blosxom or PHPosxom in order to work with NetNewsWire.
