Hello world!
Test post from new Wordpress installation. I’ll get to work on importing some old content (and writing some new content).
metadate.py for PyBlosxom
Well, it just wouldn’t feel like Christmas without coding. =)
I recently started using pyblosxom for my blogging software needs. I’ll discuss the reasons for this choice in a later post.
One minor annoyance about pyblosxom is that since the entries are regular files, the developer chose to base entry post dates on file mtimes. While this is a really cool idea for the sake of simplicity of design, it gets rather old having post times change when correcting typos. I end up touch(1)ing posts constantly.
Many users simply wrap their post edits in a shell script which will replace the original mtime after editing, but I didn’t feel like settling for this solution.
In the end I decided to write a pyblosxom plugin to base the post time off a #postdate metadata line in the post file, if one is present.
The plugin can can be found here: metadate.py. Details are in the header of the script. I will be submitting it to the pyblosxom plugin registry soon.
Happy holidays, everyone.
