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Posted on Friday 4 November 2005 - Popularity: unranked

As some of you may know, I’m developing a WordPress plugin to cache, list and view wiki articles inside your own blog. If you look to the left, there’s a list with the latest cached articles and if you click more, you can browse all articles and view them inside this blog. The plugin is already feature complete and I just need to change some minor things here and there and write some install and use instructions before the beta phase can start. If you’re interested, please contact me and I’ll send you the plugin one of the next days.

Basically the plugin consists of three parts, the admin panel, the cache engine and the article browser. This are the features of each part:

Admin Panel:

• Add article
• Edit article
• View article
• Browse articles
• Switch article ON/OFF
• Delete article
• Re-cache article
• Re-cache all articles
• Edit options
• View article suggestions

Cache Engine

• Cache everything inside a specific “div”
• Remove other specific “divs”
• Convert short links into full links
• Cache images
• Resize large images
• Re-link links to already cached articles

Article Browser

• List view
• Article view with custom CSS per wiki
• Browse list by tag
• Group by tags
• Search with and or or logic
• Sort by article date
• Sort by popularity (views)
• Sort by article size
• Sort by name
• Suggest new article
• Latest article sidebar list

The plugin can be made compatible with any wiki that uses CSS formatting by adding a new .wcd (wikicache definition) file, so you can cache almost anything, just have in mind that not every wiki or website allows caching of their content. The original idea of the plugin is to cache wiki articles you’ve worked on.

Fredi