MultiBlog 1.0 Release Candidate 2

The documentation is still in the process of being written, but I figured people would be wanting to get their hands on this as early as possible. So, I present to you, MultiBlog 1.0, Release Candidate 2 (1 was fairly short lived).

Download one of the following files:

• multiblog-1.0rc2.tar.gz
• multiblog-1.0rc2.zip

And follow the installation instructions in the MultiBlog documentation.

To give you a brief overview:

• Tag-wise, MultiBlog is a combination of OtherBlog and GlobalListings with the following exceptions:
  • Acesss to other blogs is controled by the Access Control portion of the configuration script for MultiBlog. No errors are currently generated if a blog attempts to access another blog that it is not allowed to. The default access control settings allow every blog to access every other blog.
  • I added a category attribute to MTGlobalEntries. It should be matching against category labels across all the blogs that the current blog may access, but it has not been tested yet (to my knowledge at least).
• The Rebuild feature can work in one of two ways: Entry and Placement. This is assigned on a rule by rule basis, but there can be only one of the two for any given post-rebuild blog pair (i.e. you cannot set a blog to trigger a rebuild in another blog on both Entry and Placement, only one or the other).
  • Entry will trigger the rebuild when the entry is saved, but before the category is assigned to it.
  • Placement will trigger the rebuild when the category (primary only) is assigned to the entry.
  • If the blog you wish to trigger the rebuilds from does not use categories, you will want to use the Entry option. If it does, and if the categories carry any signficance, you will want to use the Placement option.

If you encounter any bugs or any other problems with the plugin, please send email to multiblog-bugs AT mt-forge.org, with the subject as a summary of the problem, and the body of the email as the full description. I am still tinkering with the bug tracker, so I apologize in advance for any hiccups that might happen. Still, I encourage anybody that has a problem to send it in so I can start working out the kinks in the tracker.