Re: [pmwiki-users] selling pmwiki to high school students

2014-02-01 Thread Christopher Cox
PmWiki can do everything I want today.. and everything I need tomorrow. Wordpress can't do either. On 02/01/2014 06:47 AM, Peter Bowers wrote: > I am teaching a high school class in computers and our most recent project was > creating a site in WordPress and in PMWiki. At the end my students wer

Re: [pmwiki-users] selling pmwiki to high school students

2014-02-01 Thread Oliver Betz
jdd wrote: >* pmwiki do not allow direct online update (my most wanted feature... but not >in the PM philosophy, I guess :-), when wordpress do this on a snap, [...] >* an other drawback of pmwiki regarding updates is the plugin (cookbooks) >update. I manage several pmwikis, on different serve

Re: [pmwiki-users] selling pmwiki to high school students

2014-02-01 Thread Chris Knadle
On Saturday, February 01, 2014 20:04:35 jdd wrote: > Le 01/02/2014 18:12, Crisses a écrit : > > A few recipes on top of PmWiki make it MUCH more user friendly, like drag > > & > > drop attachments, NewPageBoxPlus, etc. > > as maintenance, > > * pmwiki do not allow direct online update (my most wa

Re: [pmwiki-users] Category nesting question

2014-02-01 Thread Crisses
One thing being overlooked for nesting is a top-level link. on Appetizers, link to [[!Category]] on Breakfast, link to [[!Category]] Now when you add Category.GroupHeader of: Recipes: (:pagelist link={$FullName} fmt=#titlespaced list=normal group=!Category:) Subcategories: (:pagelist link={

Re: [pmwiki-users] selling pmwiki to high school students

2014-02-01 Thread Oliver Betz
Peter Bowers wrote: >I am teaching a high school class in computers and our most recent project >was creating a site in WordPress and in PMWiki. At the end my students >were not overly enamored with the setup and configuration of pmwiki and >wanted to know why they would ever use that over WordPr

Re: [pmwiki-users] selling pmwiki to high school students

2014-02-01 Thread jdd
Le 01/02/2014 18:12, Crisses a écrit : A few recipes on top of PmWiki make it MUCH more user friendly, like drag & drop attachments, NewPageBoxPlus, etc. as maintenance, * pmwiki do not allow direct online update (my most wanted feature... but not in the PM philosophy, I guess :-), when word

Re: [pmwiki-users] selling pmwiki to high school students

2014-02-01 Thread Crisses
...more If the idea of their class in computers is to see if they would perhaps one day be programmers, sys admins, work in a techie business setting, etc. consider these scenarios where PmWiki fits: Case Examples: A non-profit with several locations, and they want to have a passworded "

Re: [pmwiki-users] selling pmwiki to high school students

2014-02-01 Thread Crisses
I've worked with both, have clients who come to me with pre-existing WordPress sites, and I set up my own original work blog in a separate WordPress site (much to my current regret). I just set up a blog in PmWiki which mimics a WordPress set-up. http://passionizing.com and I'm updating my XES

Re: [pmwiki-users] selling pmwiki to high school students

2014-02-01 Thread jdd
Le 01/02/2014 13:47, Peter Bowers a écrit : I am teaching a high school class in computers and our most recent project was creating a site in WordPress and in PMWiki. At the end my students were not overly enamored with the setup and configuration of pmwiki and wanted to know why they would ever

[pmwiki-users] selling pmwiki to high school students

2014-02-01 Thread Peter Bowers
I am teaching a high school class in computers and our most recent project was creating a site in WordPress and in PMWiki. At the end my students were not overly enamored with the setup and configuration of pmwiki and wanted to know why they would ever use that over WordPress. I gave several thou

Re: [pmwiki-users] Suppress HTML comments from template in output

2014-02-01 Thread Oliver Betz
Petko Yotov wrote: (possible to suppress etc. in HTML output?) >Not with a PmWiki variable or something like this because the way the >template is printed, it does not know if later there wouldn't be some >function trying to insert HTML into the header. I see, thanks. Is it true that the H

Re: [pmwiki-users] How do I create a new page from form data?

2014-02-01 Thread Oliver Betz
Paul Bloch wrote: [...] >* How do I create a page named using these data? I used in [[#newuserpost]]: |(:template defaults saveto={$$xgroup}.{$$xname} :) |(:template defaults successpage="{$$saveto}" :) |(:template defaults savevars=...:) |(:template require if="!exists {$$xgroup}.{$$xname}" er