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<p align="center"><img alt="WordPress"
src="http://wordpress.org/images/wordpress.gif"><br>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2">0.72</font></p>
<p align="center">Weblog / News Publishing Tool</p>
<p align="center"><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a> - <a
href="#installation">Installation</a> - <a href="#templates">Template(s)</a>
- <a href="#usage">Query String Usage</a> - <a href="#xmlrpc">XML-RPC
(Blogging APIs)</a> - <a href="#postviaemail">Post Via Email</a> - <a
href="#notes">Notes</a></p>
<a name="requirements"></a>
<h1>Requirements:</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>PHP4</strong> (version 4.0.6 or higher)</li>
<li><strong>MySQL</strong> (version 3.23.23 or higher)</li>
<li>Perl (optional - only for the spellchecker)</li>
<li>... and a link to <a target="_blank"
href="http://wordpress.org">http://wordpress.org</a> on your site.</li>
</ul>
<p>The link will help promote <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a>
and is its only mean of promotion. </p>
<p>WordPress is built from b2, which comes from Michel V. We
wouldn't be here without him, so why don't you grab him something from
his <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/registry-address-select-done/1XKLC38KDUPXR/103-8901342-4908609">wishlist</a>?</p>
<p>This document is currently beta stage, we'll be updating it
extensively as WordPress matures.</p>
<h1 id="installation">Installation:</h1>
<h2>New users: 5-minute install.</h2>
<ol>
<li>Unzip the package in an empty directory.</li>
<li>Copy wp-config.sample.php to wp-config.php. Open
wp-config.php in a text editor and modify the variables as explained in
the comments. Comments are lines that start with # or /* or //</li>
<li>Upload everything. This release is designed to sit in your
root folder, IE the folder where your WordPress-powered page will
reside.</li>
<li>CHMOD 666 the <code>weblogs.com.changes.cache</code> file.</li>
<li> Launch <a href="wp-admin/wp-install.php">wp-install.php</a>
in your browser. This should setup the MySQL database for your blog. If
there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again.
If it fails again, please go to the <a
href="http://wordpress.org/support/">support forums</a> and make a
post with all the information about the failure (error messages, etc),
and your setup (the PHP and MySQL versions on your server, and the
browser you were using). <strong>Note the password given to you.</strong></li>
<li> Go to <a href="b2login.php">b2login.php</a> and sign in
with the login "admin" and the password given to you by the install
script. Then click on the menu 'My Profile', and change the password.
Note: you need javascript enabled to launch the profile popup window.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Some notes:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Whenever you want to post something, just open a browser
and go to b2login.php to log in and post.</li>
<li>You can also use a bookmarklet and/or a sidebar (IE5+/NS6+)
to post.</li>
<li> You can also post through the Blogger API, <a
href="#xmlrpc">click here</a> for more info.</li>
<li> Your site's blog is on b2.php (simple template) and
index.php (CSS template), you can rename this file to index.php or any
other name you fancy (provided it bears the php extension or is
interpreted as a php file by your server).</li>
<li> You can also copy b2.php into a new file and modify that
new file, it will work too ;)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Users upgrading from b2 v0.6.1 to WordPress v0.7:</h2>
<ul>
<li>All you <em>really</em> have to do is replace all the
files with newer versions and run <a href="javascript:window.close()">b2-2-wp.php</a>
and you should be ready to go.</li>
<li>If you're using an older version of b2, it's probably a
good idea to upgrade to at least .6.1 before making the leap to
WordPress.</li>
<li>The templates are so much better, and there is so much more
going on than before it's probably worth it to start from scratch and
work back to your design.</li>
<li>You <em>must</em> update your <code>wp-config.php</code>.
There's all sort of new stuff in there.</li>
<li>WordPress issues should be discussed in our <a
href="http://wordpress.org/support/">support forums</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Back up</strong> your database before you do
anything. Yes, you. Right now.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="templates">Template(s):</h1>
<h2>First notes:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Enclosed is an example of a template, in the file b2.php.
You can rename this file to "index.php"or something else (recent b2
versions have a default index.php, which is an elaborate CSS-based
template).</li>
<li>You can have any number of template files, since all they
do is extract the posts from the database.</li>
<li>Pseudo-template for the comments is in b2comments.php. You
needn't rename this file, but you can edit it.</li>
<li>The only thing to remember is that it's not actually a
template, but a PHP file that you're manipulating. So when you see
"don't delete this line", you know you mustn't, unless you want to have
a broken page.</li>
<li>Required lines are: the first lines that call
blog.header.php, the lines with the "while" statement, and the ones
with just "}" (it ends the while loop).</li>
<li>Between the "while" line and the "}", is the template for
your posts.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Notes about parameters:</h2>
<ol>
<li> Some template tags can accept optional parameters between
the parenthesis <strong>()</strong>.</li>
<li>To add a parameter to a tag, enclose it between quotes and
put it between the <strong>()</strong>.<br>
Example: <code>&lt;?php my_tag("my parameter"); ?&gt;</code></li>
<li>You may have to put several parameters, for that you
separate them with commas.<br>
Example: <code>&lt;?php my_tag("first param","second param"); ?&gt;</code></li>
<li>The order of parameters is important. If a function accepts
2 parameters and you only want to set the second one, you still have to
provide the first one, and so on for any number of parameters.<br>
Example: <code>&lt;?php my_tag("","second param"); ?&gt;</code></li>
<li>Some template tags, like the_date(), display something only
if in some conditions. They generally accept parameters to display
something before and after them only when they display something.<br>
Example: <code>&lt;?php the_title("&lt;h1&gt;","&lt;/h1&gt;"); ?&gt;</code>
would display &lt;h1&gt;title of the post&lt;/h1&gt; only if the post
has a title<br>
<br>
</li>
</ol>
<h1>Template tags:</h1>
<blockquote> <strong>&lt;?php the_date() ?&gt;</strong> <span
style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
the date of the post. example: 03.07.01 (default is dd.mm.yy).<br>
the date is displayed only on new days. for example if you got 10 posts
on the same day, the date for this day is displayed only once.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>format string (default: "d.m.y")</li>
<li>string to display before the date (default is blank)</li>
<li>string to display after the date (default is blank)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_time() ?&gt;</strong><br>
the time of the post. example: 18:37:00 (default is hh:mm:ss)<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>format string (default: "H:i:s")</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>Note:</strong> you can change the way the date &amp;
time are displayed in the Options page.<br>
once you understand the format strings for the date &amp; time
(explained in the Options page), you can change the display right on
the template: for example, <strong>the_date(</strong><em>"d.m.Y"</em><strong>)</strong>
to have dates like 25.12.2001, <strong>the_time(</strong><em>"B"</em><strong>)</strong>
to have Swatch Internet Time.<br>
If you change the display of the date on the template, changing it from
the options page won't have any effect.br /&gt; <br>
<strong>Note about the_date():</strong> if you want all your
posts to bear the date, you'll have to use the_time() instead, with a
date format string. for example, to have all your posts show like
"25.12.2001 @ 8:04:50 AM" you'll have the_time("d.m.Y @ g:i:s A"). you
can also repeat this template tag 2 times with 2 different formats:
the_time("d.m.Y") for the date, and then later the_time("g:i:s A") for
the time of the day.<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_weekday() ?&gt;</strong><br>
This displays the day of the week when the post was made. It works like
the_time(), in that it would appear at every post. Weekdays can be
obtained with a custom date format string in the_time() or the_date(),
but for non-english weekdays you have to edit day-month-trans.php<br>
<strong>Note: this tag is OBSOLETE, the_time() and the_date()
now use weekdays/months from day-month-trans.php</strong><br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_weekday_date() ?&gt;</strong> <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
Like the_weekday(), but works like the_date(), in that it would appear
only on new days.<br>
<strong>Note: this tag is OBSOLETE, the_time() and the_date()
now use weekdays/months from day-month-trans.php</strong><br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>string to display before the weekday_date (default is
blank)</li>
<li>string to display after the weekday_date (default is
blank)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_ID() ?&gt;<br>
</strong>the ID (number) of the post.<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_title() ?&gt;<br>
</strong>The title of the post.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>string to display before the title (default is blank)</li>
<li>string to display after the title (default is blank)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_content() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong>The text of the post.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>text to display for the link to the complete entry
(default is <em>'(more...)'</em>)</li>
<li>0 or 1, whether you want to show the teaser message or
not, when showing the complete text (default is 1)</li>
<li>a filename of another template, if you want the 'more'
link to link to a different template for the complete text of the
extended entry (default is the current template)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
For example <em>&lt;?php the_content("read more","0","blah.php") ?&gt;</em>
would display a link to <em>blah.php</em>, with the link text <em>read
more</em>, and won't display the teaser message.<br>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span>
To enter an extended entry, just type <em>&lt;!--more--&gt;</em> in
your entry. The part before that comment is the teaser, the part after
it is the extended entry. To force the extended entry not to show the
teaser message, type <em>&lt;!--noteaser--&gt;</em> somewhere in your
entry.<br>
<br>
<span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span>
To enter an entry with several pages, just type <em>&lt;!--nextpage--&gt;</em>
in your entry to start a new page.<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php next_post() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong>Displays a link to the next post(s). (Generally you
might want to use that tag only in single-post templates)<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>format string for the link (default is "%", where % is
replaced with the title of the next post)</li>
<li>text to display to announce the link (default is "next
post: ")</li>
<li>"yes" or "no": display the title of the post, or no
(default is "yes")</li>
<li>"yes" or "no": display a link to the next post only if
the next post is in the same category (default is "no")</li>
<li>number: which next post ? if you make it '2', the 2nd
next post is linked instead of the 1st next one (default is "1", which
means first next post)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php previous_post() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong>Displays a link to the previous post(s). (Generally
you might want to use that tag only in single-post templates)<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>format string for the link (default is "%", where % is
replaced with the title of the previous post)</li>
<li>text to display to announce the link (default is
"previous post: ")</li>
<li>"yes" or "no": display the title of the post, or no
(default is "yes")</li>
<li>"yes" or "no": display a link to the next post only if
the previous post is in the same category (default is "no")</li>
<li>number: which previous post ? if you make it '2', the 2nd
previous post is linked instead of the 1st previous post (default is
"1", which means first previous post)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php next_posts() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong>Display the URL portion of a link to the next set of
posts. <br>
Generally you would use this in a template to navigate to the next
"set" of posts when the "Show Options" settings for the site is set to
"posts paged". The displayed string can be used to construct a link.
When the site options are not set to 'posts paged", the next and
previous functions will display nothing.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>Max page number to use. Default "0"; no limit</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php next_posts_link() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong> Displays a full link to the next "set" of posts only
if show options set to "posts paged" and only if there is another page
or partial page of data.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>A user supplied string. Default "Next Page &gt;&gt;"</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php previous_posts() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong>Displays the URL portion of a link to the previous
posts.<br>
Generally you would use this in a template to navigate to the previous
"set" of posts when the "Show Options" settings for the site is set to
"posts paged". The displayed string can then be used to construct a
link. When the site options are not set to 'posts paged", the next and
previous functions will display nothing.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>No parameters.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php previous_posts_link() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong> Displays a full link to the previous "set" of posts
only if show options set to "posts paged" and if there is a previous
set, otherwise nothing is displayed.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>A user supplied string. Default "&lt;&lt; Previous Page"</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php posts_nav_link() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong>The function displays a complete navigation set of
links including a user definable "separator" with the ability to supply
a the text string to be used for the "previous" and "next" links.<br>
The default result will produce the following string:<br>
<p align="center">&lt;&lt; Previous Page :: Next Page &gt;&gt;</p>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>A user supplied "separator" string. Default " :: "</li>
<li>A user supplied "previous" string. Default "&lt;&lt;
Previous Page"</li>
<li>A user supplied "next" string. Default "Next Page
&gt;&gt;"</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php link_pages() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong>Displays links to the pages of the post if it's a
multiple pages post.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>string to display before the tag (default is "&lt;br
/&gt;", a newline)</li>
<li>string to display after the tag (default is "&lt;br
/&gt;", a newline)</li>
<li>"next" or "number": display links like "next/previous
page" or links to each page with the number of the page "1 2 3 4 etc"
(default is "number")</li>
<li>string to display the "next page" link (default is "next
page")</li>
<li>string to display the "previous page" link (default is
"previous page")</li>
<li>format string for the "number of page" link (default is
"%", where % is replaced by the number of the page)</li>
<li>file name, in case you want to load the posts with
multiple pages in a different template (default is the current template)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author() ?&gt;</strong><br>
The author of the post.<br>
Depending on the user's profile settings, it can display whether their
nickname, login name, first name, last name, both first&amp; last name,
or last &amp; first name. look below for more author-related template
tags. <br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_category() ?&gt;<br>
</strong>the name of the category the post belongs to. you can
as an admin add categories, and rename them if needed. default category
is 'General', you can rename it too.<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_category_ID() ?&gt;<br>
</strong>The ID (number) of the category the post belongs to.
This is static data thatyou can use, for example to associate a
category to an image, or a css style.<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php trackback_rdf() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span></strong><br>
This will include the RDF data that can be used by some weblog tools to
locate your posts' trackback URLs.<br>
You should put this tag after the &lt;?php the_content() ?&gt; tag in
your template, or just before the end of the loop.<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php get_links_list() ?&gt;<br>
</strong>This tag is out of the b2 loop.<br>
It will output a list of
all links defined in the Links Manager, listed by category, with
category headings, using the
settings in the Links Manager to control the display and sorting of
links within the categories, and output it as a nested HTML
unordered list. That sounds more complicated that it really is.&nbsp;
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>a string to determine category sort order (e.g. 'name',
'updated', 'id')<br>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php dropdown_cats() ?&gt;<br>
</strong>This tag is out of the b2 loop.<br>
It will display a list of
&lt;option name="<em>x</em>"&gt;<em>category-name</em>&lt;/option&gt;,
where <em>x</em> is the number of the category and <em>category-name</em>
is the name of it.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>0 or 1, depending if you want to have an option to
display all categories (default is 1)</li>
<li>text to display for the option to show all categories
(default is "All")</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
you can use it like this: <br>
<br>
<code>&lt;form action="&lt;?php echo $PHP_SELF ?&gt;"
method="get"&gt;<br>
&lt;?php dropdown_cats() ?&gt;<br>
&lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="view" /&gt;<br>
&lt;/form&gt;</code> <br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php list_cats() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong>This tag is out of the b2 loop.<br>
It will display a list of the
categories, with links to them. like in b2archive.php, each category is
on a line, the only way you can change this is by editing
b2.template.functions.php<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>0 or 1, depending if you want to have an option to
display all categories (default is 1)</li>
<li>text to display for the option to show all categories
(default is 'All')</li>
<li>sort by: possible values are 'name' and 'ID' (default is
'ID')</li>
<li>sorting order: possible values are 'asc' for ascending or
'desc' for descending (default is 'asc')</li>
<li>filename, in case you want to display the categories'
posts in another template (default is current template)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php bloginfo() ?&gt;</strong> <span
style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
This tag is out of the b2 loop.<br>
It outputs info about your weblog.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>string: can be 'name' to display the name of your weblog
(you set it in the options page), 'url', 'description', 'admin_email',
'rss_url' to display the URL of your b2rss.xml file, 'pingback_url' to
display the URL of your xmlrpc.php file<br>
(default string is 'name')</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php single_post_title() ?&gt;</strong> <span
style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
This tag is out of the b2 loop.<br>
It outputs the title of the post when you load the page with ?p= (see
'Usage' section for explanation). When the weblog page is loaded
without ?p=, this tag doesn't display anything. Generally, you could
use it like this:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php bloginfo('name') ?&gt;&lt;?php
single_post_title() ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>prefix string that will appear before the post's title
(default is ' :: ')</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php single_cat_title() ?&gt;</strong> <span
style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
This tag is out of the b2 loop.<br>
It outputs the title of the category when you load the page with ?cat=
(see 'Usage' section for explanation). When the weblog page is loaded
without ?cat=, this tag doesn't display anything. Generally, you could
use it like this:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php bloginfo('name') ?&gt;&lt;?php
single_cat_title() ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>prefix string that will appear before the category's
title (default is ' :: ')</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php single_month_title() ?&gt;</strong> <span
style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
This tag is out of the b2 loop.<br>
It outputs the name of the month when you load the page with ?m= (see
'Usage' section for explanation). When the weblog page is loaded
without ?m=, this tag doesn't display anything. Generally, you could
use it like this:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php bloginfo('name') ?&gt;&lt;?php
single_month_title() ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>prefix string that will appear before the month's name
(default is ' :: ')</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>Note:</strong> The above three functions can be used
together to produce the Title of the page:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php bloginfo('name') ?&gt;&lt;?php
single_post_title(' :: ') ?&gt;&lt;?php single_cat_title(' :: ')
?&gt;&lt;?php single_month_title(' :: ') ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;<br>
Only one, if any, of these functions will produce output, thus the page
Title can be customize to the task being done. <br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>More about the author</strong> of the post ? Here goes:<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author_email() ?&gt; - </strong> the
author's email.<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author_url() ?&gt;</strong> - the author's
url.<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author_email() ?&gt;</strong> - the
author's number of posts.<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author_icq() ?&gt;</strong> - the author's
ICQ number.<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author_aim() ?&gt;</strong> - the author's
AIM handle.<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author_yim() ?&gt;</strong> - the author's
Yahoo Messenger handle.<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author_msn() ?&gt;</strong> - the author's
MSN Messenger handle.<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author_posts() ?&gt;</strong> - the
author's post count.<br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author_login() ?&gt;</strong> - the
author's login name in b2. If you want some static data about the
author, this is what you're searching for. You can, for example,
associate a picture with an author, like this: <em>&lt;img
src="pictures/&lt;?php the_author_login() ?&gt;.jpg" border="0"&gt;</em><br>
<strong>&lt;?php the_author_ID() ?&gt;</strong> - the author's
ID number in b2. This number is automatically set when the user
registers: to see the ID of an user, go to the Team page. This is
static data too, so you can use it like the_author_login() in
associating stuff with authors.<br>
<br>
<strong><br>
Tags for permalinks</strong> are:<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php permalink_anchor() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span></strong><br>
this will display &lt;a name="..."&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, replacing "..." with
the ID or the title of the post in the database.<br>
<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>string for kind of anchor: either 'id' that displays
'50', or 'title' that displays 'title_of_post_50' (default is 'id')</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php permalink_link() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong>this will display the name of the file followed by #ID
to link to the post, in the month archive if archive-mode is "monthly".<br>
note: this tag does not display the link, for this you've got to type
&lt;a href="&lt;?php permalink_link() ?&gt;"&gt;text of the
link&lt;/a&gt;.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>file name, in case you want to link the archive to a
different template (default is the current template)</li>
<li>string for kind of link: either 'id' that appends '#50'
to the link, or 'title' that appends '#title_of_post_50' (default is
'id')</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php permalink_single() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><br>
</strong>this will display the name of the file followed by #ID
to link to the entire post (the linked page will also show the extended
text on that post if it is an extended entry, and the comments).<br>
note: this tag does not display the link, for this you've got to type
&lt;a href="&lt;?php permalink_single() ?&gt;"&gt;text of the
link&lt;/a&gt;.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>file name, in case you want to use a different template
for single posts (default is the current template)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Tags for comments, trackback, and pingback</strong> are:<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php comments_popup_script() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span></strong><br>
This will include the javascript that is required to open comments,
trackback and pingback in popup windows.<br>
You should put this tag before the &lt;/head&gt; tag in your template.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>width (default is 400)</li>
<li>height (default is 400)</li>
<li>file name, in case you want to use a different template
for comments (default is b2commentspopup.php)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php comments_popup_link() ?&gt;<span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span></strong><br>
This will display the link to open comments in a popup window, with the
number of comments.<br>
To edit the popup window's template, edit the file b2commentspopup.php
(it's the default one for comments popup).<br>
<br>
Note:<br>
The same tags exist for TrackBack and Pingback, respectively named '<b>trackback_popup_link()</b>'
and '<b>pingback_popup_link()</b>'. They take the same parameters.<br>
<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>string for comment-less posts (default is "no comments")</li>
<li>string for posts with one comment (default is "1 comment")</li>
<li>string for posts with 2 or more comments (default is "%
comments")<br>
Note here that the sign "%" is then replaced by the number of comments.</li>
<li>string for CSS class, so you can have a styled link with
class="" (default is empty, no CSS class applied)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php comments_link() ?&gt;<br>
</strong> This is a bit like permalink_link, it will display an
URL to the comments page, but again you'll have to create the link tag.<br>
<br>
Note:<br>
The same tags exist for TrackBack and Pingback, respectively named '<b>trackback_link()</b>'
and '<b>pingback_link()</b>'. They take the same parameters.<br>
<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>file name, in case you want to use a different template
for comments (default is the current template)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php comments_number() ?&gt;</strong> <br>
This displays the number of comments that have been posted on this
post. Example: "5 comments".<br>
<br>
Note:<br>
The same tags exist for TrackBack and Pingback, respectively named '<b>trackback_number()</b>'
and '<b>pingback_number()</b>'. They take the same parameters.<br>
<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>string for comment-less posts (default is "no comments")</li>
<li>string for posts with one comment (default is "1 comment")</li>
<li>string for posts with 2 or more comments (default is "%
comments")<br>
Note here that the sign "%" is then replaced by the number of comments.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
Example: <em>&lt;?php comments_number("no comment","1 comment","%
comments") ?&gt;</em><br>
<br>
This tag differs from v0.5's tag because in v0.5 and prior, it would
only display a number, not a text with it, so you could have terrible
things like "1 comments" (doh !)<br>
<br>
<strong>Necessary: &lt;?php include("b2comments.php") ?&gt;</strong><br>
you'll put this line where you want the comments to be placed on your
page.<br>
typically, under the post itself. don't worry, the comments only appear
if the page is called in the comments mode. (like this: url?c=1)<br>
<br>
<strong>Necessary: &lt;?php include("b2trackback.php") ?&gt;</strong><br>
you'll put this line where you want the TrackBacks to be placed on your
page.<br>
typically, under the post itself. don't worry, the TrackBacks only
appear if the page is called in the TrackBacks mode. (like this:
url?tb=1)<br>
<br>
<strong>Necessary: &lt;?php include("b2pingbacks.php") ?&gt;</strong><br>
you'll put this line where you want the Pingbacks to be placed on your
page.<br>
typically, under the post itself. don't worry, the Pingbacks only
appear if the page is called in the Pingbacks mode. (like this:
url?pb=1)<br>
<br>
<br>
<strong>Tags that go in b2comments.php, b2trackback.php,
b2pingbacks.php:</strong> (these are easy too)<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php comment_author() ?&gt;</strong><br>
<strong>&lt;?php comment_author_email() ?&gt; </strong> -
displays the e-mail address, but not the link<br>
<strong>&lt;?php comment_author_url() ?&gt; </strong>-
displays the url, but not the link<br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php comment_author_email_link() ?&gt; </strong> <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span>-
displays a link to the comment's author's e-mail<br>
<strong>&lt;?php comment_author_url_link() ?&gt; </strong> <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span>-
displays a link to the comment's author's website<br>
<div class="params">Parameters for <strong>comment_author_email_link()</strong>
and <strong>comment_author_url_link()</strong>:
<ul>
<li>string for the link (default: "email"/"url" depending on
the tag)</li>
<li>string to display before the link (default is " - ")</li>
<li>string to display after the link (default is blank)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php comment_author_IP() ?&gt;</strong> - displays
the IP of the comment's author<br>
<strong>&lt;?php comment_text() ?&gt;<br>
&lt;?php comment_date() ?&gt; </strong>- unlike the_date(), this tag
appears on every comment<strong><br>
&lt;?php comment_time() ?&gt;</strong><br>
<div class="params">Parameters for <strong>comment_date()</strong>
and <strong>comment_time()</strong>:
<ul>
<li>format string (default is "d.m.y"/"H:i:s" depending on
the tag)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php trackback_url() ?&gt; <span
style="font-family: Courier New,Courrier,mono; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span></strong><br>
This tag is out of the b2 TrackBacks loop.<br>
It will output the URL to TrackBack the post, that other people can
copy and use in b2's posting interface to trackback this post.<br>
<div class="params">Parameters:
<ul>
<li>no parameter</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br>
<br>
In b2comments.php b2trackback.php and b2pingbacks.php, like in the main
template file, please keep the first PHP lines, the "while" lines, and
the "}" lines.<br>
You can modify the form, but do not remove "&lt;?php echo ... ?&gt;"
and all the name="..." attributes.<br>
<br>
<br>
To <strong>include your archives:</strong><br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php include("b2archives.php") ?&gt;</strong><br>
this will include the links to your archives, one link per line.<br>
if your archive mode is "monthly", it will display the names of the
months and the years, like "july 2001".<br>
if your archive mode is "post by post", it will display the titles of
your posts, one title per line. if a post is untitled it will display
the ID (number) of this post.<br>
<br>
<br>
To <strong>include the calendar:</strong><br>
<br>
<strong>&lt;?php include("b2calendar.php") ?&gt;</strong><br>
this will include a table with the current month's calendar, each day
when you posted shows a link to this day's posts. You can customise
this table with CSS classes:
<div class="params"> <strong>.b2calendarmonth {}</strong><br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>the style that is used to display the month and year</i><br>
<strong>.b2calendartable {}</strong><br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>the style of the &lt;table&gt; tag (border etc...)</i><br>
<strong>.b2calendarrow {}</strong><br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>the style of the &lt;tr&gt; tag</i><br>
<strong>.b2calendarheadercell {}</strong><br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>the style of the &lt;td&gt; tag that shows the
weekdays on the top of the table</i><br>
<strong>.b2calendarcell {}</strong><br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>the style of the &lt;td&gt; tags that show the days</i><br>
<strong>.b2calendaremptycell {}</strong><br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>the style of the &lt;td&gt; tags that are empty</i><br>
<strong>.b2calendarlinkpost {}</strong><br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>the style of the link to the post</i><br>
<strong>.b2calendartoday {}</strong><br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>the style of the day if it is today</i> </div>
</blockquote>
<a name="usage"></a>
<h1>Query String Usage:</h1>
<p>WordPress relies a lot on the query string, these variables
passed with the URL (note: to pass variables in the querystring,
preceed the first variable name with a '?' question mark and every
other variables with a '&amp;' sign.)</p>
<p>Most of the time you won't have to do anything about it, but
if you want to know how it works, it's here:</p>
<p>How to use the query string:</p>
<blockquote> index.php<strong>?m=200107</strong> will display the
month of July 2001.<br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?m=20010701</strong> will display all posts from July
1st, 2001.<br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?w=20</strong> will display the posts from the 20th
week of the year, where January 1st is in the first week (according to
PHP).<br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?p=50</strong> will display the post labeled #50 in
the database.<br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?s=blue+house</strong> will display the posts that
match the search request "blue house".<br>
here is the code for a simple search box:<br>
<br>
<code>&lt;form name="searchform" action="&lt;?php echo
$PHP_SELF ?&gt;" method="get"&gt;<br>
&lt;input type="text" name="s" /&gt;<br>
&lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="search" /&gt;<br>
&lt;/form&gt; </code><br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?cat=1</strong> will display all posts that belong to
category #1 (1 is the default). you can add/rename/delete categories
from b2's interface.<br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?author=1</strong> will display all posts from the
author #1<br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?p=50&amp;c=1</strong> will display the comments and a
form to add a comment below the post.<br>
you should use this variable only with <strong>p=</strong>, example:
index.php<strong>?p=50&amp;c=1</strong>.<br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?p=50&amp;tb=1</strong> will display the TrackBacks to
the post #50.<br>
you should use this variable only with <strong>p=</strong>, example:
index.php<strong>?p=50&amp;tb=1</strong>.<br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?p=50&amp;pb=1</strong> will display the Pingbacks to
the post #50.<br>
you should use this variable only with <strong>p=</strong>, example:
index.php<strong>?p=50&amp;pb=1</strong>.<br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?p=50&amp;more=1</strong> will display the extended
entries' text. this, too, should be used only with <strong>p=</strong>,
for individual entries.<br>
<br>
index.php<strong>?p=50&amp;page=1</strong> will display the first page
of post #50. this, again, should be used only with <strong>p=</strong>,
for individual entries.<br>
<br>
You can also mix these variables, example: index.php<strong>?m=200107&amp;s=hotdog</strong>
will display the posts that match the search request "hotdog", but only
in July 2001. </blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<a name="xmlrpc"></a>
<h1>XML-RPC Interface:</h1>
<p>WordPress has an XMLRPC interface. Currently supported APIs
are the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/developers/api/1_docs/">Blogger
API</a>, <a href="http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi">metaWeblog API</a>,
and the <a
href="http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtmanual_programmatic.html">MovableType
API</a>. There are talks about a new API that would cover a lot of
weblog/CMS systems in the future: when it's ready, WordPress will
support it.</p>
<p> The <a href="http://www.blogger.com/developers/api/1_docs/">Blogger
API</a>
has been completely emulated on WordPress, with some little differences:</p>
<ul>
<li>using <em>blogger.getRecentPosts</em> with the number
'zero' returns all posts in the blog</li>
<li><em>blogger.getTemplate</em> fetches your file
$blogfilename (as specified in the config), while <em>blogger.setTemplate</em>
overwrites it with the edited data</li>
<li><em>blogger.getUsersBlogs</em> is a dummy function that
returns '1' and $blogname, since b2 supports only one blog as of now</li>
</ul>
<p>If you use blogger.newPost, your post is submitted without
title and in category #1.</p>
<p> However, you can type &lt;title&gt;my title&lt;/title&gt;
and/or &lt;category&gt;2&lt;category&gt; in the body of your post to
make its title be 'my title' and its category be #2 (refer to your
categories section to find out the ID numbers of the categories). b2
would then delete that extra info from the body of your post once it is
posted.<br>
</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi">metaWeblog</a>
and <a
href="http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtmanual_programmatic.html">MovableType</a>
APIs are currently supported
with the following exceptions:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>metaWeblog.newMediaObject,&nbsp;
mt.getRecentPostTitles,&nbsp; and mt.getTrackbackPings are not yet
implemented</li>
<li>mt.supportedTextFilters is a dummy stub function that
returns an empty string</li>
<li>keywords are not supported in the MovableType API</li>
</ul>
<br>
Extended entries in the <a
href="http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtmanual_programmatic.html">MovableType
API</a> are automatically converted
to/from the WordPress &lt;!--more--&gt; tag.<br>
<p>You can now post to your b2 blog with tools like <a
href="http://blogbuddy.sourceforge.net">BlogBuddy</a>, <a
href="http://bloggar.com/">Bloggar</a>, <a
href="http://www.ubique.ch/wapblogger/">WapBlogger</a> (post from your
Wap cellphone!), <a href="http://radio.userland.com">Radio Userland</a>
(which means you can use Radio's email-to-blog feature), <a
href="http://www.zempt.com/">Zempt</a>, <a
href="http://www.newzcrawler.com/">NewzCrawler</a>, and other tools
that support
the Blogging APIs ! :)</p>
<p>Your XMLRPC server/path are as described here: if you login to
b2 on http://example.com/me/b2login.php, then you have:</p>
<ul>
<li>server: http://example.com/ (some tools will just want the
'example.com' hostname part)<br>
</li>
<li>path: /me/xmlrpc.php</li>
<li>complete URL (just in case):
http://example.com/me/xmlrpc.php</li>
</ul>
<p>There's also a b2-specific method: b2.getCategories. Request
it with 3 strings: blog_ID (use '1'), username, password. The response
is an array of structs with strings categoryID and categoryName.<br>
<br>
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<a name="postviaemail"></a>
<h1>Post via Email:</h1>
<p>You can post news from an email client!<br>
But first you'll have to edit the options on the options screen,
filling the appropriate values for your POP3 email account (this
interface doesn't support IMAP yet, only POP3, sorry).</p>
<p> Once you have edited the options, you can make your webserver
execute b2mail.php every set amount of time (depending on your host's
performance, this script can be resource intensive, so don't make it
run every minute or you'll be kicked).</p>
<p>You can do it with Cron-jobs, or if your host doesn't support
it you can look into the various website-monitoring services, and make
them check your b2mail.php URL.</p>
<h2> Preliminary advice:</h2>
<p> It is strongly advised to send your email as text-only
(Outlook and Outlook Express default to 'html', which may cause
problems), but HTML email could work (the script would strip all your
html tags though...).</p>
<p>It is also advised not to use your public email address, but
create a new one especially for this script. If you use your public
email address and the script goes crazy posting every email on your
blog and deleting all your emails, I can't take responsibility for this.</p>
<p>Make sure you delete any email sent to your blog in your
'Sent' folder too, just in case (you don't want someone to find your
login and password in the 'Sent' folder).</p>
<p> The script will <i>delete</i> the emails that were used to
post stuff on your weblog if it successfully posted your stuff. If it
didn't manage to post, the email is not deleted.</p>
<h2>How to post:</h2>
<p>Now to post something, here's how your email should look like:</p>
<div class="params"> <b>To:</b> address@example.com <span
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(you set it in the config file)</span><br>
<b>Subject:</b> blog:the post's title <span
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(you can change 'blog:' in the
config file)</span><br>
<b>Body:</b><br>
login:password <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(example: <i>Jack:Starwars</i>)</span><br>
The content of the post, blah blah blah.<br>
More blah blah. ___ </div>
<p> Subject must start with 'blog:', or any string you set in the
config file (so that the script doesn't check EVERY email in your
mailbox).</p>
<p>Body's first line must always be login:password, else the
script will just skip the email.<br>
If you don't use '___' (or any body terminator that you set in the
config file), the script will post the whole body, which is not what
you want if you send email with Yahoo or Hotmail (you don't want their
ads on your blog, do you ?).</p>
<h2>Special cases for mobile phone email:</h2>
<p> Some mobile phone service providers may allow you to send
email with your mobile phone or PDA, but on such devices you can't
always include line breaks. In such case, you have to set <i>use_phoneemail
= true</i> in the options, and then here's how you write the email:</p>
<div class="params"> <b>To:</b> address@example.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> blog:the post's title <b>:::</b><br>
<b>Body:</b><br>
login:password <b>:::</b> The content of the post, blah blah blah.___ </div>
<p>You will have to append ':::' (or whatever string you set in
the config file) after the subject, and after the login:password.<br>
<br>
Some mobile phone service providers may not allow you to set a subject,
and they'll make the subject be the first characters of the body, in
which case you would send an email like this:</p>
<div class="params"> <b>To:</b> address@example.com<br>
<b>Body:</b><br>
blog:the post's title <b>:::</b> login:password <b>:::</b> The
content of the post, blah blah blah.___ </div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<a name="notes"></a>
<h1>Notes: </h1>
<p>On multi-user:</p>
<p>New users can register with <code>b2register.php</code>. Then
you (as an admin) click the "+" next to their name on the Team page in
admin to upgrade their level to 1 or more, so they can post. If you
don't want an user to post anymore, just click "-" until their level is
0.</p>
<p>Note: you can now disable users registration altogether from
the config file.</p>
<p><strong>Levels</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li> 0 - new user: can't post.</li>
<li>1 - user: can post &amp; edit/delete their own posts.</li>
<li>3 &amp; more - admin: can post, edit/delete other people's
posts, and change the options.</li>
<li>Any user whose level is higher than 1, can edit/delete the
posts and change the level of users whose level is inferior. Example: a
level 2 user is not an admin, but can edit the posts of level 1 users,
and up the level of a new user from 0 to 1.</li>
</ul>
<p>Usually, you'll want to have a team of only level 1 users
except you. ;)</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> you can modify an option on the option
screens, to enable new users to post once they've registered.</p>
<p>If you don't want users to register on your blog at all, just
delete b2register.php once you've registered your user account. </p>
<h1><br>
Final notes:</h1>
<ul>
<li>WordPress is functional, but a lot of coding and code
clean-up remain to be done.</li>
<li>If you've got suggestions, ideas, or comments, or if you
found a bug, why not joining us in the <a
href="http://wordpress.org/support/">Support Forums</a>?</li>
<li>If you can code in PHP, you'll see the structure of
WordPress is flexible enough to allow for more functions and sections
to be added.</li>
</ul>
<h1><br>
Copyright notes:</h1>
<ul>
<li> Wherever third party code has been used, credit has been
given in the code's comments.</li>
<li>WordPress is released under the <acronym
title="GNU Public License">GPL</acronym> (see license.txt).</li>
</ul>
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