§Setting up Weblogs.
You can access the Weblogs setup page under
. You can add a new weblog or edit any of the current ones.§ Editing a Weblog.
If you edit a weblog, the top part of the first screen will look like this:
All the configuration options for Weblogs are spread out over three pages. Most of the options are self-explanatory, so I will only describe the global meaning of these pages:
Page 1:
On this Page you set some values for how the weblog writes its files. What names to use, whether or noet you want archives, and whether or not each entry should be generated seperately.
At the bottom of this page you can assign templates to the frontpage, the entrypage and the archive page. This is important because which template you select as a frontpage, directly determines which subweblogs this weblog has.
TIP: for the various date formatting options, check here: Date Formatting Overview.
Page 2:
This page lists all of the subweblogs of this weblogs. Pivot parses the tamplate you selected for the frontpage and uses that to determine what subweblogs there are. If this page does not show any subweblogs, try the following:
- Go back one page, and make sure you've selected the template for frontpage that you intended to select.
- Edit the template you selected, and verify that there is at least one [[subweblog:standard]] or [[subweblog:anynameyouchoose]] tag in the file.
For each weblog you can set the sub-template that is used to show the entry on your frontpage and in the archives.. You can also set what categories should be publishes in your subweblogs. If you do not select any categories, the weblog will never be generated.
Page 3:
On this page you can set a lot more options, most of which are described on the page itself. After you click 'finish' the weblog will be saved. Please note that you will have to go through all three pages to actually change the settings. If you only change something on Page 1, and then go to
for instance, your changes will not be saved.