Comments on: Custom blog themes for 10.4’s blog server?

By: I. Am

I. Am — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:56:07 +0000

You can post images to Tiger weblog with a client that supports metaweblog (i.e. ecto).

By: Frank Fulchiero

Frank Fulchiero — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:43:37 +0000

I wanted an internal way, with no help from other apps like Flickr.
I did find a kludge:
Create a new entry. Then upload the image, as a podcast in the “Advanced” tab. Save the entry. Click the image name in the entry, this takes you to the image. Copy the URL. Go back to the blog, Edit, and enter the image’s URL in standard html img src tags. I don’t use anything except the image URL, no width, height, etc.
See upload test 2 in
http://nutmeg.conncoll.edu/weblog/tech1/

I have given up using weblog server for blogging, after seeing how primitive it is compared to blogger. Time for Apple to do some improvements!
Now I’m modifying it for easy podcasting
alpha at
http://video.conncoll.edu/weblog/
Thanks,
Frank

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:59:06 +0000

Frank -

Apple’s Blojsom has no image librarian =(

However you have two pretty easy alternatives. You can copy images to your /Sites/Images directory and hard-link them into a blog post.

OR you can use Flickr, and set up its blog posting capability. Apple’s Blojsom will accept ATOM and Blogger API (or is it Wordpress? I forget) logins externally. When you have it set up correctly, it only takes one button click within Flickr to post an image to a new weblog post in Apple’s Blojsom.

It’s free and it’s bad ass. You can even set up an email account for (get this) camera phone -> email -> Flickr -> blog all at once.

By: James Hammett

James Hammett — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:00:59 +0000

I’m using iWeb which appears to have NO integration with OS X Server. (Garage band’s weblog feature appears to have none either). Anyone have any experience converting a iWeb template for use by blojsam. (I don’t have access to either right now, so I can’t look at it).

By: Frank Fulchiero

Frank Fulchiero — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:59:47 +0000

Is there a way to configure Apple’s Blojsom so a blog user can upload images and display them in the blog?

By: Rich Trouton

Rich Trouton — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:05:33 +0000

Geekster,

I think I’ve located the place where you can fix this. First, go to your blog’s admin console, located at http://server.name/weblog/username/?flavor=admin. (If you don’t have the Blojsom admin console enabled enabled, see http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/07/03/apples-blog-server/ to learn how to turn it on.)

Next, go to Weblog Settings: Properties and check what the “Blog URL:” setting is set to. It should be set to http://server.name/weblog/username/ (filling in your own domain name and username where appropriate.) If you use one domain name on the inside of your network, and another outside, use the one that’s available to the outside world.

Let me know if that fixed it for you.

By: Geekster

Geekster — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:21:53 +0000

David,
That’s a bit off-topic but since you seem to know the blog server in depth: I’m running a server behind a firewall with a private IP. The website is accessible through the fw, no problem, same for the blog. Only, some links within the blog (like leave comment) refer to the private IP. This renders the blog rather useless.
Any ideas where the links get set to the local rather than the URL?

By: dschneider

dschneider — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:52:24 +0000

Heres a little more detailed write up I did on making custom themes in 10.4 / Blojsom

http://www.macnode.com/weblog/macnode/Geek/?permalink=104andBlojsomWeblogServerCus.html&smm=y

By: David Czarnecki

David Czarnecki — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:04:16 +0000

For the resource to show up correctly, they’ll need to be copied to the proper directory as specified in the instructions. For some of the themes, the CSS and image files were placed in the /BLOJSOM_INSTALLATION_DIRECTORY instead of under the /BLOJSOM_INSTALLATION_DIRECTORY/resources/(blog-id)/. Send me an e-mail with the theme you’re using and what’s being displayed on screen and I can try to help debug the issue.

By: Rich Trouton

Rich Trouton — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:11:20 +0000

David,

I’d like some help with this, please. It looks like I’m able to get the Velocity templates working, using the directions you’ve posted for configuring the active theme from the command-line, but none of the resources look like they’re showing up.

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By: David Czarnecki

David Czarnecki — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:48:19 +0000

There are also a number of themes that are available from the download section of the blojsom site. If you need help installing the themes, let me know. What you’ve outlined above is Apple’s way of making CSS-themes available to the installation, but you are always free to use blojsom’s existing capabilities to install new themes.