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There should be post and create links on the shared pages (treehouse,sustenace,artifax,sustenance) for those of you who have posting powers on those pages. I used the new page include function from yesterday to build this. I'm happy to have found the solution to this, and doubly happy that I could use the tools here to do it.
I've finished the roughed in idea for a page template system so that when [create]ing a new page you can have some preset values stored for the options in [editpage]. The idea is that if you make a lot of pages that are all similar (and all similarly different from the page defaults) you can make a template (with say, maybe, comments off, post footer off, green background, serif text, a specific copyright notice, and no search box) and then you have the option in [create] to choose that template when [create]ing a page. This saves you the effort of creating the page, and then having to go into [editpage] and change all these values by hand. Probably it's only worth it if you build mulitple pages with the same style. On the [create] page there is a link to another page where you can build a template. I haven't tested this extensively, but it seems to at least largely work.
Finally getting some work done after a few days of spinning my wheels. There are now two new features in [editpage]. The first is a checkbox labeld "turn on page includes?". Probably it is not understandable at this point, but if you check this box, then on the page (either inside a post, or inside the left-text box on [editpage]) you can enter a string like this:
[*pageinclude=/jim/weblog*]
And that whole string will be replaced with the entire contents of the page at /jim/weblog
Obviously, you could put any valid path in place of /jim/weblog.
This has a number of uses, many of which don't apply to our set up here. But who knows, maybe someone can think of a use for this. I'm using it already on some private pages (I'm building an address book for myself.) I'll write more about this later.
The second new feature on [editpage] is a request from Dave. He always has the same bits of html in every post (a headline, a blockquote, a link) and he doesn't want to type that stuff in every time. So now there is another textarea box on [editpage], this one labeled "posting template". Anything you put in this box will show up in the textarea box on [post] for all posts to that page. Again, maybe not useful for everyone, but could be handy if there is a standard way you make each post on a page.
More stuff coming, including a request from Alex to be able to choose a default on/off for the convert line breaks as well as a default template for creating new pages (font, colors, etc...)
A few hiccups this morning (between 10:00 and 11:00 am.) Nothing major, but you might have gotten an error for a minute or two. I made a pretty big update, but you shouldn't really notice anything different. Everything should be working properly now.