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Andy's Blog Engine

These are a couple of script plugins, for using the current document as a blog engine. To install... well, I should add some links to install them.

Usage:

Bear in mind that these scripts don't do any rendering. That is done during the Web Export. Because these scripts utilize the page meta function; they will only work in VoodooPad Pro.

I have a line in my postflight script that changes the name of the rendered file home.html to index.html. If you change the variable homePageName from home then this line will need to change as well.

mv -fv "$VPWebExportOutputDirectory/home.html" "$VPWebExportOutputDirectory/index.html"

To see what this looks like in action check out the site I'm doing for my son's Boy Scout Troop 262 . Please bear in mind this is a work in progress. I could point you to my business site, but I don't want to use this as a forum for advertising. ;-)

Neither of these scripts has any data that are specific to any VPP document. I did this so that if you have multiple VPP documents that you are using as a CMS for a blog then the only thing that needs to be done is creating the "HomepageMeta" page in each document for the data.

Meta Markup

Set your data in a new document page named "HomepageMeta". It will be in the following format.

Meta Markup - HomepageMeta script

Make Homepage & Feed

Make Homepage & Feed script

Much thanks to Gus. I couldn't have completed this without his time responses to my constant pestering. :-)