Blogging Roller

All systems go! Now it's time to add some of the new features to my templates and to do a little tweaking. I'll start my tweakings with the new big archive calendar.

A little later... Now that Roller allows you to put macros in weblog entries, mentioning the macros.showWeblogEntries() macro in a weblog entry as I did on <a href= "http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page/roller/20020927#macros_to_support_rss_templating"> 9/27/2002 is the recursive kiss of death. I think I can use a thread local storage trick to prevent this and the macros.include() page recursion. Guess that means RC2. Correction: guess that means I have some work to do before I actually release RC1.

Here is a cool new one: macros.showRSSLinks() displays links for the various types of RSS 0.9.1 feeds available from your weblog. Roller now gives you two feeds per category, one with full text and one with excerpts. You can even invoke it in a weblog entry, see:

$macros.showRSSLinks()

Ok, so the formatting is not that nice and it does not get expanded in the RSS feed. Hmmm...