Rael has released Blosxom 2.0 RC1. I’ve been playing with the beta releases right here and I’m impressed with the added functionality that the plugins offer.

I was able to get Blosxom 2.0 Beta 1 working without much of a hitch at all. I like the plugin archetecture that Rael has implemented. It seems to work smoothly and has already generated a number of plugins. You can see it in my /betalog directory

The Trackback_Counts plugin is the only one that has me a little troubled. The trackback ID it generates doesn’t appear to be available to Blosxom so in the RDF imbedded in each story I’ve got a slightly different trackback ID than the one the plugin is using for counts.

I attempted to install Beta 2 and evidently I’ve got something wrong. It won’t generate the static files. I’ll work on that some tonight, I guess. I’ve got to leave to go out of town tomorrow morning and I don’t know how long I’ll be away.

I haven’t had much of a chance to do more than install it but I have Blosxom 2.0 Beta 1 throwing my content into the \betalog directory. It does have an RSS 1.0 feed located at http://www.dallasbay.net/betalog/index.rss10. I’ll be playing with some of the plugins as I find time. Time may be short over the next week.

Rael released the first beta code of Blosxom 2.0 yesterday. I downloaded it this morning and will be installing it sometime today to create a test blog for this software. I’ll point to it when I get things working well enough. It will mirror this blog.

The biggest news is that this version of Blosxom supports plugins so it ought to be easier for me to make it do things it doesn’t do right out of the box. It may also make it easier for me to break things.

I’ve had a chance to play with Blosxom for a couple of days now and I have to say I get more impressed with it the more I play. I didn’t fully comprehend the power of this little script when I first installed it but after setting up a few directories underneath my content directory I’ve got to say, “Wow! Instant categories for my log entries.” All I need to do is write the story, apply the markup and save that puppy to a dirctory for the category I want it to be placed in. Every 15 minutes cron runs Blosxom to statically create the HTML pages but it only actually writes anything when there has been a change.

It took me all of twenty minutes to implement Trackback last night and it wouldn’t have taken me that long if I had just implemented it instead of trying to hack it to add comments. I’ll get the comments added this week sometime but after about 10 minutes of fiddling I decided it was best to just get one thing working at a time.

I’m still tweaking the templates some and I want to address the current RSS setup to allow picking whatever flavor of RSS you want, from 0.91 to 3.0 but what you see right now is about what I’m going to stay with as far a looks of this site goes. I’m also interested in creating some special XML templates that might be compatible with the PHP code I wrote for Justin’s Journal. I guess we’ll see.