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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>1
- Introduction 5</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>2
- Getting started with Roller 5</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>2.1 -
Getting started with a new Roller installation 5</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>2.2 -
Getting started with an existing Roller installation 5</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>2.3 -
Accepting an invitation to join a weblog 6</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>2.4 -
Getting around in Roller 6</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>3
- Creating and editing your weblog 9</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>3.1 -
Creating and editing a weblog entries 10</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>3.2 -
Finding and editing weblog entries 12</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in">3.2.1 - Finding
old entries with the Create &amp; Edit:New Entry page 12</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in">3.2.2 - Finding
old entries with the Create &amp; Edit:Edit Entries page 13</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in">3.2.3 - Finding
old entries using the pages of your weblog 13</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in">3.2.4 - Finding
old entries with Roller's built-in search engine 13</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>3.3 -
Weblog categories 14</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in">3.3.1 - The
Weblog Category Chooser 14</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in">3.3.2 - RSS
Feed for Each Category 14</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in">3.3.3 - Adding,
Renaming, and Removing Weblog Categories 14</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>3.4 -
Podcasting with Roller 15</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in">3.4.1 - How to
create a podcast feed with Roller 15</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>3.5 -
Referrer rankings 17</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>3.6 -
Comment notification via email 17</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>3.7 -
Comment management and moderation 17</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>3.8 -
Preventing weblog spam 19</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in">3.8.1 - Three
levels of blacklisting 19</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-bottom: 0in">3.8.2 - How to
add words and expressions to the blacklist 19</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>3.9 -
Sending trackbacks 20</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>4
- Managing your weblog settings 21</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>4.1 -
Weblog settings 22</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>4.2 -
Weblog themes 25</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>4.3 -
Uploading Files 26</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>4.4 -
Setting up a group blog 27</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>5
- Customizing your weblog's theme 29</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>5.1 -
Weblog and day templates 31</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>5.2 -
Define standard headers and footers with a decorator 33</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>5.3 -
Roller Macros and Variables 34</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>5.4 -
Creating and packaging your own Roller theme 35</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>5.5 -
Overriding Roller Macros 36</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>6
- Managing your weblog's blogroll 37</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>6.1 -
Adding new links to your blogroll 37</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>6.2 -
Adding new links to your blogroll 38</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>6.3 -
Adding new bookmark folders 39</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>6.4 -
Bookmark import and export via OPML 40</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>7
- Using a blog client with Roller 41</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>8
- Using weblog pings 42</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>8.1 -
Registering with an Aggregator 42</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>8.2 -
Ping Targets, Common and Custom 42</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>8.3 -
Setting up Automated Pings 42</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>8.4 -
Sending a Manual Ping 44</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>8.5 -
Creating and Editing Custom Ping Targets 44</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>8.6 -
More on Registering with an Aggregator 46</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>9
- Roller administration 47</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>9.1 -
Managing users 47</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>9.2 -
Configuring Roller 49</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>10
- Weblog update ping administration 52</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>10.1 -
Creating and editing common ping targets 52</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>10.2 -
How Roller Processes Weblog Update Pings 52</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>10.3 -
Configuration Properties Controlling Ping Processing 53</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>10.4 -
Suspending all ping processing 53</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>10.5 -
Controlling and disabling ping usage 53</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>10.6 -
Initialization of common ping targets 54</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>11
- Planet Roller administration 55</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>11.1 -
Setting up the Planet aggregator 55</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>11.2 -
Configuring Planet Roller 56</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>11.3 -
Adding external subscriptions to Planet Roller 57</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>11.4 -
The Planet Roller main page 58</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in"></SPAN>11.5 -
Adding custom groups to Planet 59</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 1: Main Menu with
invitation to join a group blog 6</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 2: Status bar, no
weblog 7</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 3: Status bar within
weblog 7</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 4: Weblog navigation
bar 7</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 5: Weblog editor
navbar 8</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 6: Main menu 9</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 7: Weblog editor 10</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 8: Edit entries page 12</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 9: Podcast URL field 16</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 10Comment (and
trackback) management page 18</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 11: Send trackback
control 20</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 12: Result of sending
trackback 20</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 13: Weblog preferences
menu 21</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 14: Weblog settings
page part 1 22</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 15: Weblog settings
page part 2 24</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 16: Theme selection
page 25</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 17: Weblog permissions
page 27</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 18: Weblog templates
page 29</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 19: Edit template
page 30</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 20: Theme directory
structure 35</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 21: Bookmarks
management page 37</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 22: Add and edit
bookmark form 38</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 23: Add folder form 39</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 24: Automatic ping
configuration page 43</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 25: Custom ping targets
page 45</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 26: Edit ping target
form 45</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 27: User admin page 47</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 28: User admin form 48</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 29: Config page: site
settings 49</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 30: Config page: user
settings 49</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 31: Config page: file
upload settings 50</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 32: Config page:
newsfeed settings 50</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 33: Common weblog ping
targets 51</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 34: Planet config
page 55</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 35: Planet
subscriptions page 56</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Illustration 36: Planet front
page 57</P>
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<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always">1 - Introduction</H1>
<P>This user guide describes how to use Roller, a web application
that can support a single user weblog, thousands of weblogs and/or
group weblogs. You'll learn how to register as a new user, create
weblogs, edit and post weblog entries and manage your weblog.
You'll also learn how to customize your weblog's <I>blogroll</I>, a
list of links to your favorite web sites,and how to change the
look-and-feel or <I>theme</I> of your weblog.</P>
<P>A word about terminology is necessary because the word weblog is
both a noun and a verb. In this guide we use the words weblog and
weblog entry as follows:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><I>Weblog</I>: a weblog or blog
is an online journal written by one or more authors. In Roller a
weblog consists of weblog entries, weblog categories, favorite
bookmarks and settings that define the appearance and behavior of
the weblog.
</P>
<LI><P><I>Weblog entry</I>: a weblog entry is an individual entry
within a weblog with a title, date and text.
</P>
</UL>
<H1 CLASS="western">2 - Getting started with Roller</H1>
<P>We'll start by explaining how to get started with a fresh Roller
server, one that was just created and has no users at all. If you
are using an existing Roller server, which has already been setup
by somebody else, then you can skip to section <A HREF="#2.2.Getting%20started%20with%20an%20existing%20Roller%20installation%7Coutline">2.2
- Getting started with an existing Roller installation</A> where we
discuss how to register for an ordinary Roller user account.
</P>
<H2>2.1 - Getting started with a new Roller installation</H2>
<P>If you've just installed a new Roller server, make sure that you
create the first user yourself. Roller grants global admin
permission to the very first user that is created. Later, you can
use that admin user to grant global admin permission to other
users. Here's how to create your first user:
</P>
<P><B>How to create the first user and weblog on a fresh Roller
site:</B>
</P>
<OL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Start Roller and navigate to the
main page (e.g. <A HREF="http://localhost:8080/roller%29.">http://localhost:8080/roller).
</A>
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Click the <B>Register</B> link
in the top right corner of the page.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Fill out the information for
your new user, perhaps using the username 'admin' since the first
user is the admin user. Once you've filled out the form. click the
<B>Register User</B> button.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">On the Welcome to Roller page,
choose the <B>Click here</B> link to login as your new user.
You'll be taken to the Roller Main Menu page.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">On the Main Menu page, click the
<B>create a weblog</B> link to create a new weblog.
</P>
<LI><P>Fill out the Create Weblog page and when you're done click
the <B>Create Weblog</B> button.
</P>
</OL>
<H2><A NAME="2.2.Getting%20started%20with%20an%20existing%20Roller%20installation|outline"></A>
2.2 - Getting started with an existing Roller installation</H2>
<P>To get started on an existing Roller installation, first you
need to create a user account. Once you've done that, you can
create one or more weblogs for your user.
</P>
<P><B>How to create a user account</B>
</P>
<P>Some Roller sites require you to use a separate system to create
a Roller account. For example, at Sun we require blogs.sun.com
bloggers to register using an internal system called BAM.
</P>
<P>With a stock Roller installation, here's how you register a new
user:
</P>
<OL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Use your web browser to go to
the main page of the Roller installation
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Click the <B>Register</B> link
in the top right corner of the page
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Fill out the information for
your new user. Once you've filled out the form. click the <B>Register
User</B> button.
</P>
<LI><P>On the Welcome to Roller page, choose the <B>Click here</B>
link to login as your new user. You'll be taken to the Roller Main
Menu page.
</P>
</OL>
<P><B>How to create a weblog for your user</B>
</P>
<P>Here's how you create a new Roller weblog for your user:
</P>
<OL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Login to Roller by clicking the
<B>Login</B> or the <B>Main Menu</B> link
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">On the Main Menu page, click the
<B>create a weblog</B> link to create a new weblog.
</P>
<LI><P>Fill out the Create Weblog page and when you're done click
the <B>Create Weblog</B> button.
</P>
</OL>
<H2>2.3 - Accepting an invitation to join a weblog</H2>
<P>Roller supports group blogging. That means that more than one
user can edit and manage a single weblog. If somebody invites you
to join their weblog, an invitation message will appear at the top
of the Main Menu page. Depending on how Roller is configured, you
may also get an email message that informs you of the invitation.
To accept an invitation, login to Roller go to the Main Menu page
and you'll see something like this.</P>
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1: Main Menu with invitation to join a group blog</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
</P>
<P>That's an invitation to join the weblog with the handle
'adminblog'. To accept click the accept button. Once you do, you'll
be a member of the weblog and the weblog will appear on your Main
Menu page as one of your weblogs.
</P>
<H2>2.4 - Getting around in Roller</H2>
<P>When you log into Roller, Roller sends you to the Roller <I>editor
interface</I> -- a set of web pages for editing and managing your
weblog and (if you have global admin privileges) the Roller
installation itself.
</P>
<P><B>Find your way around the editor interface</B>
</P>
<P>No matter where you go in the Roller <I>editor interface</I>,
you'll always see a <I>status bar</I> across the top of the page
with convenient links to the Roller front page and main menu.
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame2" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.78in; height: 0.43in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_5e921c9f.png" NAME="graphics3" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
2: Status bar, no weblog</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>That's what the status bar looks like when you are logged in
(assuming your username is 'admin'), but you haven't chosen a
specific weblog in which to work. What's going on here?
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The text on the left indicates
that you are logged in as user admin.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">On the right, the words <B>Front
Page</B> link to the front page of the Roller site. Your site's
administrator may have changed the words Front Page to something
else, but the link should still take you to the site's front page.
</P>
<LI><P>Also on the right, the words <B>Main Menu</B> link to the
main menu of Roller, where you can manage your weblog(s), create
new weblogs and accept invitations to join other user's weblogs.
</P>
</UL>
<P>If you are logged into Roller and you are editing one specific
weblog, the status bar will include a link to that weblog. For
example, the bar below indicates that user 'admin' is logged-in and
editing weblog called 'adminblog.'
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame3" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.78in; height: 0.44in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_406a562a.png" NAME="graphics4" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
3: Status bar within weblog</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><B>Going from your weblog back to the editor interface</B>
</P>
<P>When you're on your weblog page and you need a way to get back
to the Roller editor interface, look for the <I>weblog navbar</I>.
All of Roller's built-in themes include the navbar. It looks
slightly different in each theme, but it always includes the same
set of links.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame4" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 2.16in; height: 1.47in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_3fb97cd5.png" NAME="graphics5" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
4: Weblog navigation bar</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>That's what weblog navbar looks like this when you are <I>not</I>
logged in (note that the exact appearance varies in each theme).
The words <B>Front Page</B> link to the front page of the Roller
installation and as with the front page link in the banner-status
bar, the words may be different on your site. Next are links to the
public pages of the weblog, and this particular weblog includes
pages called <B>Weblog</B> and <B>About</B>. Finally, there is a
link to <B>Login</B>.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame5" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 2.4in; height: 3.5in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_6e5d8126.png" NAME="graphics6" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
5: Weblog editor navbar</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>That's what weblog navbar looks like this when you are <I>are</I>
logged in. After the familiar Front Page link and the page links
there's a link to the weblog's New Entry page, the weblog's
Settings page and a <B>Logout</B> link.
</P>
<P>After the logout link is the <I>editor navbar</I>, which
includes shortcuts to all of the editor pages for this particular
weblog. It is also included on all of the built-in Roller themes,
but is a separate component from the plain old weblog navbar.
</P>
<P>Now that we've covered the basics of registering a new user,
creating a new weblog and finding your way around let's start
blogging.
</P>
<H2>2.5 Changing the Language of the editor interface</H2>
<P>The Roller editor interface uses the locale (language and
country) User Profile setting to select the text to display in the
editor navbar and in each editor page. You can select your
preferred locale when registering or, if you have already
registered, on the Your Profile page. If a translation for your
preferred language is available on your Roller installation, the
editor interface will use this language for all the editor pages.
If you have selected your preferred language and the pages are
still displayed in English (or the default language of your Roller
installation?) there may not be a translation available for your
language. (If you or the person(s) responsible for your Roller
installation would like to translate Roller to an additional
language, please visit the Roller project website...)
(Translations are currently available for...)</P>
<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always">3 - Creating
and editing your weblog</H1>
<P>First, you login to Roller. What happens next depends on the
number of weblogs that you have. If you have one weblog, you'll be
taken directly to the <B>New Entry</B> page for that weblog. If you
have more than one weblog or none at all, then you'll be taken to
the <B>Main Menu</B> page, shown below, so you can pick which
weblog to edit and/or create new weblogs.
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame6" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.33in; height: 4.34in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m37111dbc.png" NAME="graphics7" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
6: Main menu</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>The main menu page lists all of your weblogs and for each, shows
you links to its New Entry, Edit Entries and Settings pages. You
can also create a new weblog, edit your user profile and perform
administrative duties (if you have global admin permissions).
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">3.1 - Creating and editing a
weblog entries</H2>
<P>To create a new weblog entry, go to your weblog's <B>New Entry</B>
page, enter a title in the Title field, enter the your post in the
Content text area, choose a category from the Category combo, and
hit the <B>Post to Weblog</B> button. As soon as you do that, your
weblog entry is posted to your weblog for the world to see. Here is
the relevant part of the New Entry page.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame7" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.71in; height: 7.54in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration 7:
Weblog editor</I></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_27fdfebe.png" NAME="graphics8" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=613 HEIGHT=686 BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>The above screenshow shows the RTE weblog entry editor
(editor-rte.jsp), a rich text editor that creates the HTML for you.
If you prefer to edit the HTML yourself, you can switch to the
plain text editor (editor-text.jsp). Use the Preferences:Settings
page to pick the weblog editor page you'd like to use.</P>
<P>Let's cover the fields on the page:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Title</B>: this is the title for your post, it is
required.</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Category</B>: You must pick a category for your entry.
You can change the list of categories available in your weblog by
using the <B>Create &amp; Edit:Categories</B> page.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Pub Time</B>: You don't need to set this unless you want
to post at a specific time in the past or in the future. The best
thing to do is to leave it blank. Roller will set it for you when
you click the Post to Weblog button to publish your new weblog
entry.</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Status</B>: This field displays the status of your
weblog entry. The possible values are Not saved, Draft and
Published.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Summary (optional)</B>: For long posts, you might want
to enter a sentence or two as summary in addition to the content.
If you do, your short summary will appear on the front page of
your weblog and the content will appear on the single-entry view.
Your summary will also be included in your newsfeed in an
<FONT FACE="Courier New">&lt;atom:summary&gt;</FONT> element.</P>
<LI><P><B>Content</B>: This is where you put the body of your
weblog entry.</P>
</UL>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>Below the weblog entry fields are the Other Settings
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Comment Settings</B>: Click on the little plus-sign plus
(+) to expand the Comment Settings control, where you can
enable/disable comments on your blog entry.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Plugins to Apply</B>: This control allows you to pick
which plugins are to be applied to this entry. For example, if you
want ;-) smilies in your text to be replaced with smiley-face
images, choose the emoticons plugin. You can set which plugins are
to be applied by default on your weblog's <B>Preferences:Settings</B>
page. Note that your Roller site administator controls the list of
available plugins. Here's the current list of plugins included in
Roller:
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Convert Line Breaks</P>
</UL>
</UL>
<UL>
<UL>
<LI><P>Topic Tags</P>
<LI><P>Textile Formatter</P>
<LI><P>Acronyms</P>
<LI><P>Bookmark Linker</P>
<LI><P>Email Scrambler</P>
<LI><P>Emoticons</P>
<LI><P>Read More Summary &ndash; <I>deprecated: use a summary
instead</I></P>
</UL>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Misc settings</B>: Here you can control misc. settings
like text right-to-left and, if you're an administaror, you can
&quot;pin&quot; an entry to the top of the front-page of the site.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>MediaCast settings</B>: This control allows you to
specify the URL of a file to be included in your blog entry as an
RSS enclosure, also known as a <I>podcast</I>. See the next
section for more information on podcasting with Roller.
</P>
</UL>
<P>Below that is a row of buttons.
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Post To Weblog</B>: Don't click this button until
ABSOLUTELY SURE you're ready to publish your weblog entry for the
entire world to see.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Submit for Review</B>: If you only have limited blogger
rights in the weblog, you won' t see the Post to Weblog button
because limited bloggers are not allowed to publish directly.
Instead, you'll see a Submit for Review button. Click this button
when you are ready for the authors of the blog you are working in
to review your work and either publish or save it as a draft and
ask you to revise it.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Save as Draft</B>: Click this button to save your post
as a draft entry for editing later.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Preview</B>: Click this button to see what your post
will look like when displayed in a browser. Not that preview is
not exactly like what you'll see because you weblog may have
different font and style settings than the edit weblog page, but
it will be pretty close.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Spell Check</B>: Click this button to spell check your
post. Be forewarned that Roller's spell checker is far from
perfect. It catches HTML tags as spelling errors and its user
interface is clunky. We're investigating alternatives.</P>
</UL>
<H2>3.2 - Finding and editing weblog entries</H2>
<P>All of your blog entries are saved in a database. Once your blog
entries scroll off the front page or off the recent entries list of
the <B>Create &amp; Edit:New Entry</B> page, they are still
available to your readers on your weblog pages. They're available
to you too.
</P>
<H3>3.2.1 - <B>Finding old entries with the Create &amp; Edit:New
Entry page</B>
</H3>
<P>If you go to the <B>Create &amp; Edit:New Entry</B> page, you'll
see on the right a list of recent Pending Entries, Draft Entries,
and Recent Entries. You can edit any of these by simply clicking on
title.
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><I>Pending Entries</I> are
entries created by limited bloggers who are not allowed to publish
directly to the web. If you have author or admin permission in the
blog you can edit and publish these entries.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><I>Draft Entries</I> are entries
that are not yet visible on the web becuase you, or somebody else
in your weblog is not yet done editing them. You can edit any
draft entries in your weblog.
</P>
<LI><P><I>Recent Entries</I> are entries that have been published
to the web. If you have author or admin permission in the blog you
can edit and re-publish these entries.
</P>
</UL>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame28" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.85in; height: 5.23in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m199b047d.png" NAME="graphics11" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=658 HEIGHT=485 BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration 8: Edit
entries page</I></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><BR><BR>
</P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<H3>3.2.2 - <B>Finding old entries with the Create &amp;
Edit:Entries page</B>
</H3>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium">You can use the Create &amp;
Edit:Entries to find and edit your old posts. That includes posts
that have scrolled-off the bottom of the Pending, Draft and Recent
Entries lists we discussed above. When you first arrive on the page
it will show you most recent entries, as shown in the screenshot
below. If you want to find an old post you can use the start and
end date calendars to look for posts in a specific time period. You
can edit any of the entries in the Weblog Entries list by simply
clicking on its title.
</P>
<H3>3.2.3 - <B>Finding old entries using the pages of your weblog</B>
</H3>
<P>You can also use the pages of your weblog to navigate into the
past and find old blog entries. If you do this when you are logged
in, then you'll see an <B>Edit</B> link on each weblog entry, which
will load that entry into the weblog editor (i.e. the New Entry
page).
</P>
<P>There are several ways to do this:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Using the calendar</B>: most
weblog themes include a calendar, which you can use to navigate
back and forwards in time.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Using the next/prev links</B>:
most weblog themes include next/previous links, which allow you to
navigate back and forwards in time.
</P>
<LI><P><B>Using URLs</B>: you can also use URL's to navigate back
in time. Roller URLs take the form /page/username and
/page/username/date where date is formatted YYYYMMDD. So, you can
navigate into the past by using URLs.
</P>
</UL>
<H3>3.2.4 - <B>Finding old entries with Roller's built-in search
engine</B>
</H3>
<P>Roller also has a built in search engine, which you can use to
search for entries in the entire site, or in just your blog. If
you're logged in, when you find one of your old entries, it will
have an <B>Edit</B> link.
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">3.3 - Weblog categories</H2>
<P>Roller's weblog categories feature allows you to organize your
weblog posts by category. For example, you might setup a category
called &quot;Family&quot; for your family related posts, a category
called &quot;Music&quot; for your music posts, and a category
called &quot;Misc&quot; for everything else.
</P>
<P>When you write a new weblog post you must decide which category
to place it in. On the <B>Create &amp; Edit:New Entry</B> page,
there is a combo-box that allows you to pick a category for your
post or to change the category when you edit an old post.
Currently, Roller only allows you to assign each weblog post to one
category.
</P>
<H3>3.3.1 - <B>The Weblog Category Chooser</B>
</H3>
<P>When a user views your site, they can choose which category to
view. All of the stock Roller weblog templates include the Weblog
Category Chooser (displayed by the <FONT FACE="Courier New">#showWeblogCategoryChooser()</FONT>
macro) close to the top of the page so that your readers can pick
which category to display or &quot;All&quot; for all categories of
posts.
</P>
<H3>3.3.2 - <B>RSS Feed for Each Category</B>
</H3>
<P>Your weblog's main RSS newsfeed includes all categories, but
users can choose to subscribe to specific categories. All of the
stock Roller weblog templates display a list of your RSS feeds
(displayed by the <FONT FACE="Courier New">#showRSSLinks()</FONT>
macro), one for all categories and one for each separate category.
</P>
<H3>3.3.3 - <B>Adding, Renaming, and Removing Weblog Categories</B>
</H3>
<P>You can change the names of your categories, add new categories,
and delete categories using the <B>Create &amp; Edit:Categories</B>
page of the Roller Editor UI.
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">3.4 - Podcasting with Roller</H2>
<P>Roller now includes support for <I>podcasting</I>, a way to
distribute files through your weblog's newsfeed. Typically, folks
use Podcasting to distribute audio files, but the technique can be
used to distribute any type of file. Specialized Podcast client
software (such as <A HREF="http://ipodderx.com/">iPodderX</A><IMG SRC="http://www.rollerweblogger.org/wiki/images/out.png" NAME="graphics10" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=6 HEIGHT=6 BORDER=0>)
downloads the audio files that are referenced in your newsfeed and
copies them to an music player, such as an MP3 player.
</P>
<H3>3.4.1 - <B>How to create a podcast feed with Roller</B>
</H3>
<P>In Roller a Podcast is like an attachment to a weblog entry. We
call it mediacasting in the Roller UI because it can be any type of
file and is not necessarily destined for play on an Apple iPod.
Here are the steps involved in Podcasting with Roller:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P>Record an interesting Podcast (that's the hard part, by the
way)
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P>Save your Podcast in MP3 format (or whatever you prefer).
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P>Upload your Podcast to a web server somewhere and take note
of your Podcast's URL. If you have the space for it and your
Roller admin allows MP3 files, you can use file-upload capability
to upload it to your Roller website. Chose the <B>Create &amp;
Edit: File Uploads</B> menu item to get to Roller's file-upload
page. For example, if Nina of example.com were to upload a file to
Roller, then the URL would look something like this:
</P>
</UL>
<PRE STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in"> <FONT FACE="Courier New">http://example.com/roller/resources/nina/mycast.mp3</FONT></PRE>
<UL>
<LI><P>Create a new Roller Weblog entry via <B>Create &amp;
Edit:New Entry</B> describing your new Podcast. You might want to
provide a link to it so that those without a Podcast client can
click to download it directly. Using Nina as an example again, she
would add the following HTML to her blog entry to provide a link
to her Podcast:
</P>
</UL>
<PRE> Hey now! I just created my first Podcast you can download it
by clicking on this file name:
<FONT FACE="Courier New"> &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/roller/resources/nina/mycast.mp3&quot;&gt;mycast.mp3&lt;/a&gt;</FONT></PRE>
<UL>
<LI><P>And the most important step: in the lower-half of the Edit
Weblog page, you'll see an expandable control labelled <I>+MediaCast
Settings</I>. Click on that to expand the MediaCast control and
paste into the URL field the URL of your Podcast.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P>Once your blog post is ready, save it as a draft or publish
it. Once you've done that you'll see that the MediaCast Settings
control has the content-type and file-size of your Podcast. If
not, then Roller could not access your Podcast due to network
problems or perhaps a bad URL. Make sure the URL is correct and
save again. If your Podcast is OK, you'll see something like this:
</P>
</UL>
<P>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame8" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.37in; height: 1.37in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_33edbb94.png" NAME="graphics9" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
9: Podcast URL field</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P>Roller will add the Podcast to your RSS newsfeed as an
<TT>&lt;enclosure&gt;</TT>. You can check this by looking at your
RSS newsfeed. Go to your weblog and click the orange XML icon, or
just enter your newsfeed URL into your browser. After you download
your newsfeed file, open it with your favorite text editor and in
the most recent entry you'll see an RSS enclosure. For example,
Nina would see the following enclosure in her newsfeed:
</P>
</UL>
<PRE><FONT FACE="Courier New"> &lt;enclosure url=&quot;http://example.com/roller/resources/nina/mycast.mp3&quot; </FONT>
<FONT FACE="Courier New"> type=&quot;audio/x-mpeg&quot; length=&quot;3409127&quot; /&gt;</FONT></PRE><P>
That's all there is to podcasting with Roller.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">3.5 - Referrer rankings</H2>
<P>The <B>Weblog:referrer</B> referrer rankings page shows the hits
that are coming in from other websites and weblogs that have links
to your weblog and to specific entries in your weblog. By looking
at your referrer logs, you can get an idea of who is reading and
commenting on your weblog.
</P>
<P>Working with comments and trackbacks</P>
<P>Roller supports weblog comments and <I>trackbacks</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">,
which provide a way for other bloggers to add comments to your blog
remotely.</SPAN> By default comments and trackbacks are enabled,
but you can turn them off on your weblog's <B>Preferences:Settings</B>
page of your weblog. Note that turning off comments, disables both
comments and trackbacks.
</P>
<H2>3.6 - Comment notification via email</H2>
<P>If you're going to leave comments turn on then take the time to
read them, to respond where appropriate and, when you receive spam
or other forms of offensive comments, delete them from your weblog.
You can't respond to comments if you don't know when you get one,
so make sure you enable email notification of comments. You can do
that on the <B>Preferences:Settings</B> page.
</P>
<P>If you've got email turned on then you'll receive an email every
time you get a new comment and the email will include the text of
the comment, a link to the entry that was commented upon and a link
to the comment management page, shown below, where you may choose
to approve, mark as spam or even delete the new comment.
</P>
<H2>3.7 - Comment management and moderation</H2>
<P STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium">If you'd like to
preview and approve comments before they are displayed on your
weblog, then you'll want to turn on <I>comment moderation</I> via
<B>Preferences:Settings</B>. When comment moderation is enabled,
then each new comment will be marked as pending and unapproved and
will not appear on your weblog. To check for new comments, go to
the <B>Create &amp; Edit:Comments</B> to check for and either
approve or delete new comments. If you've got comment notification
enabled, make sure you also enable comment notification so you'll
know when new comments arrive. To moderate comments, use the
comment management page, described below.</P>
<P STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>The comment management page</B></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">The
comment management page, shown in illustration 10, allows you to
manage comments for your weblog. If you arrive on the page from the
link in a comment notification email, then you'll see only the
comments for the one entry that was commented upon. If you arrive
via the menu, you'll see all recent comments in reverse
chronological order.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium">Comments that
are suspected to be spam are shown with a light red background,
with the spam check-box checked. Comments that are new and pending
your review are shown with a light yellow background.
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: -0.01in; font-weight: medium"><I>How to
moderate comments</I></P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium">Review each
new comment and decide if it is to be approved for display, marked
as spam and hidden or deleted entirely.
</P>
<LI><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Only
comments that are marked as approved and are not spam will be
displayed on your weblog. So set (or unset) the corresponding
chec</SPAN></SPAN>kboxes for each comment, or leave them the way
they are.
</P>
<LI><P>When you are done. Click the save changes button at the
bottom of the page. You'll see that comments that were pending are
no longer pending and those that you marked for delete will be
gone.</P>
</UL>
<P STYLE="margin-left: -0.01in; font-weight: medium"><I>How to
search weblog comments</I></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: -0.01in"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">You
can also use the comment management page to search for comments
across all entries in your weblog by keyword, status and date. Use
the Filter comments area of the page to set the fields you want to
search and click the Query button. If there are more comments than
can be displayed on one page, then a next page link will be
displayed at the top of the list of comments so that you can
navigate into the past<SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium"><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame10" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.93in; height: 4.24in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_276ad74f.png" NAME="graphics15" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=98% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
10Comment (and trackback) management page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><B>Global comment management</B></P>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium">If your user has global
adminstration privileges, then you can manage comments across the
entire Roller site, including every weblog. To do this, go to the
<B>Server Adminstation:Comments</B> page and you'll see a page that
is almost identical to the weblog-specific comment management page.
</P>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium"><I>Limitations of global comment
management</I></P>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium">You can use this page to mark as
spam or delete any comment in the system, however you cannot change
the approval status of comments through this interface. Approving
comments for display is the duty and responsibility of the
individual webloggers, so comment approval is only available in the
context of a weblog.</P>
<P><B>A word about receiving trackbacks</B></P>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium">Incoming trackbacks are treated
differently, depending on how your Roller site is setup. Your site
adminstrator may choose to disable incoming trackbacks entirely. In
that case, anybody who tries to send a comment to your weblog via
trackback will receive and error messae and no comment will be
added.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">Your
site administrator may choose to enable a spam prevention measure
known as <I>trackback verification. </I>If that's the case, then
each incoming trackback will be verified. If the weblog that sent
you the trackback does not link to your weblog entry, then that
trackback will be marked as un-approved and pending. You'll have to
visit the comment management page to approve that trackback before
it is displayed as a comment on your weblog.</SPAN></P>
<H2>3.8 - <B>Preventing weblog spam</B>
</H2>
<P>There are three forms of comment spam that can affect your
weblog:</P>
<UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><I>Comment spam</I>: spam that arrives via the comment
form on your weblog. Sometimes spam comments are added by a human
and sometimes by a computer program known as a <I>spambot.</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">
</SPAN>
</P>
<LI><P><I>Trackback spam</I>: spam that arrives via trackbacks
sent by a spambot.</P>
<LI><P><I>Referrer spam</I>: spam that arrives in web requests
and appears on the <B>Create &amp; Edit:Referrers</B> page of
your Roller blog or on your blog (but only if your blog theme
uses the <FONT FACE="Courier, sans-serif">#showReferrers()</FONT>
macro).</P>
</UL>
</UL>
<P>Fortunately, there are counter-measures for each type of spam.
For comment and trackback spam, you can use email notification of
comments, comment moderation and trackback verification (described
in the previous section) to manage spam. That's not all. Roller
also includes a blacklisting feature, which can be used to fight
all three forms of spam.</P>
<H3>3.8.1 - Three levels of blacklisting</H3>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">Roller uses a <I>blacklist</I>,
a lists of words which are used to check incoming comments,
trackbacks and referrers for spam. The blacklist includes several
thousand words and regular expressions which which are used to
check incoming comments and trackbacks. If the name, URL or content
of a comment or trackback includes one of the blacklist words or
matches one of the expressons then that comment or trackback is
marked as spam and is not displayed on your weblog, unless you use
the comment management page to unmark it.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium">Actually, there are three levels of
blacklist:</P>
<UL>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="font-weight: medium">Level 1 blacklist: This is the
built-in blacklist, the one that comes with Roller. This can only
be changed by somebody with root access to the Roller server
itself.</P>
<LI><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">Level 2 blacklist: This
is the site wide blacklist, which can only be edited by a global
administrator via the </SPAN><B>Server Admin:Configuration</B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">
page.</SPAN></P>
<LI><P STYLE="font-weight: medium">Level 3 blacklist: Weblog
specific blacklist, which you control in the <B>Preferences:Settings</B>
page of your weblog.</P>
</UL>
</UL>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium">Incoming comments and trackbacks are
checked against all three levels of blacklist. Incoming referrers,
however, are only checked against the levels 2 and 3 blacklist.</P>
<H3>3.8.2 - How to add words and expressions to the blacklist</H3>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium">If you have a spam problem on your
weblog and you'd like to add words to the blacklist, it's probably
better for you to ask your administrator to add the words to the
level 2 blacklist for you. That way, every blogger on the site will
benefit from the addition. If you must do it yourself, here's how
you do it:</P>
<UL>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="font-weight: medium">Go to the <B>Preferences:Settings</B>
page and scroll down to the blacklist fields</P>
<LI><P STYLE="font-weight: medium">Enter your spam words, one per
line</P>
<LI><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">Lines that begin with a
left parenthesis will be treated as regular expressions (see the
Java API documentation for <FONT FACE="Courier New">javax.util.regex.Pattern</FONT>
for a guide to regular expressions). Don't try to use a regular
expression unless you really know what you're doing.</SPAN></P>
</UL>
</UL>
<H2>3.9 - Sending trackbacks</H2>
<P>If you are writing about something you read on another weblog,
you want to let the author and readers of that weblog know that you
are doing so, and that other weblog is trackback enabled, then you
should send that weblog a trackback ping. Here's a story that
illustrates how trackback works:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P>You read an interesting blog entry on Otto's blog. You
notice that Otto's blog entry has a trackback URL, so instead of
leaving a comment on Otto's blog you decide to comment by writing
a blog entry in your own blog. You copy that trackback URL (using
ALT-C, or right-click-copy, or whatever) cause you'll need it
later.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P>You go to your blog and write a new blog entry in response
to Otto's entry. Click the Post to Weblog button to publish your
new entry. After you publish, scroll down on the New Entry page
until you see the following text field and button: <BR>
</P>
</UL>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame11" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.79in; height: 1.33in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m71a6a7f9.png" NAME="graphics13" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
11: Send trackback control</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P>Enter the trackback URL from Otto's blog entry into the
text field and click the Send Trackback button. Roller will
respond by printing the response received from Otto's blog server.
If the trackback was successful, you should see something like
this:
</P>
</UL>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame12" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.35in; height: 2.78in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_5ce1ba58.png" NAME="graphics16" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=91% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
12: Result of sending trackback</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P>You should now see your trackback listed among the comments
on Otto's blog entry.
</P>
</UL>
<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always">4 - Managing
your weblog settings</H1>
<P>As a Roller user, you are free to customize the look-and-feel of
your weblog as you wish. When you establish your Roller user
account, you can choose one of the dozen or so stock themes for
your website. Later, you can use the theme switcher to switch to a
different theme. Or, if you know something about HTML and CSS you
can customize the look-and-feel and layout of your website yourself
by modifying the page templates that make up your site and by
adding new pages. Best of all, you can do all of this through the
web-based Roller Editor UI.
</P>
<P>To manage your weblog, use the Prefences menu. You can get there
from the Main Menu page, by clicking the <B>Settings</B> link for
your blog. Or, if you're already editing your weblog, you can just
click on the <B>Preferences</B> menu in the tabs. Once you're
there, the tabbed menu should look like this:
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame13" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 4.92in; height: 1.15in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_18eef266.png" NAME="graphics17" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
13: Weblog preferences menu</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>In the rest of this section we'll cover each of the items on the
Preferences menu.
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">4.1 - Weblog settings</H2>
<P>The <B>Preferences:Settings</B> page allows you to set the
configuration parameters for your weblog. You can see all of the
settings on the screen-shot below (which needs to be updated to
Roller 2.1):
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame14" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.78in; height: 5.95in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration 14:
Weblog settings page part 1</I></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_27e86c29.png" NAME="graphics2" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=651 HEIGHT=549 BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>Here is an explanation of each of the settings on the weblog
<B>Preferences:Settings</B> page:
</P>
<P><B>General settings</B>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Title</B> - The title of your weblog may include HTML,
but the HTML will be stripped out in your RSS feed. You can access
your title in a page template with the expression
<TT>#showWebsiteTitle()</TT>
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Description</B> - The description of your weblog may
include HTML, but the HTML will be stripped out in your RSS feed.
You can access your description in a page template with the
expression <TT>#showWebsiteDescription()</TT>.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Email address of weblog owner</B>: Enter the email
address that you would like people to use to contact the person in
charge of your blog; usually that's you. To thwart spammers, your
email address will be obfuscated when displayed on your blog.
Please enter a valid address, otherwise Roller's email features
will not work.</P>
<LI><P><B>Locale</B>: Choose the language and country for this
weblog. (Which is used how?) (See section x.x for setting the
locale for your user account.)</P>
<LI><P><B>Timezone</B>: Choose the timezone for this weblog.
(Which is used when displaying entries?)</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Default from address</B>: Enter the email address that
should be used as the <I>from address</I> for emails sent by
Roller. (Removed from Roller 2.1?)</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Page to be used as the homepage</B> - Choose a page
template to be used as the main page of your weblog. (Removed
from Roller 2.1?)</P>
<LI><P>Weblog is active</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Weblog editor page to be used</B> - Choose a weblog
editor page, some are rich-text editors:
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">editor-text.jsp: Simple text
editor, you must enter HTML</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">editor-rte.jsp: Rich text
editor (works in Firefox and IE but not Safari)</P>
</UL>
</UL>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Number of entries to display on weblog</B>: Enter the
maximum number of entries to be displayed on your weblog.</P>
</UL>
<P><B>Comments</B>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Allow comments for your weblog?</B> &ndash; Check this
box to allow visitors to leave comments on your weblog.
</P>
<LI><P><B>Moderate comments</B> &ndash; Check this box to enable
comment moderation (i.e. you must approve each comment before it
is displayed).</P>
<LI><P><B>Email comments</B> &ndash; Check this box to receive an
email notification of each new comments.
</P>
<LI><P><B>Default from e-mail address for comments</B> &ndash;
This will be used as the from address in comment emails sent by
Roller.</P>
</UL>
<P><B>Default comment settings</B></P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>By default, allow comments for new entries</B> &ndash;
Check this box to enable comments on your weblog. You can also
control comments on each individual weblog entry.</P>
<LI><P><B>Default time to allow comments for new entries </B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">&ndash;
Choose the default amount of time to allow comments for new blog
entries. This setting may also be overridden using the Comment
Settings section of the New Entry page.</SPAN></P>
<LI><P STYLE="font-weight: medium"><B>Apply comment defaults to
all existing entries? </B>- If you check this box, when you click
the Save button the comment defaults you have set will be applied
to all existing comments.</P>
</UL>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium"><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame27" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.93in; height: 3.59in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration 15:
Weblog settings page part 2</I></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m48711925.png" NAME="graphics14" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=650 HEIGHT=522 BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><B>Weblog client API</B>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Enable Blogger API for your weblog</B> - Set to true to
enable weblogging via the Blogger API. This will allow you to use
handy blogging clients like w.bloggar to post to your weblog.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Category for posts recieved via Blogger API</B> - Choose
the category for incoming posts made via the Blogger API. This
only applies if you blogging client does not support categories.
</P>
</UL>
<P><B>Formatting</B>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Default entry formatters: </B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">this
is the list of plug-ins to be enabled by default on a new weblog
entry. </SPAN>
</P>
</UL>
<P><B>Spam pevention</B>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Ignore incoming referrer URLs that contain any of these
(comma-separated) words</B> - you can use this to filter out what
referrers are accepted. Somewhat useful if you start getting hit
by referrer spam, but not a complete solution to the referrer spam
problem. See section for more information on spam prevention.</P>
</UL>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">4.2 - Weblog themes</H2>
<P>A weblog theme is a set of templates, style-sheets and image
that determine how your weblog will be displayed. A theme can
define both the layout and color-scheme of your weblog. When you
start a Roller weblog, you choose from one of the built-in themes.
You can change your weblog's theme at any time by going to the
<B>Preferences:Theme</B> page, show below.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame15" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.38in; height: 5.22in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_3bfac83.png" NAME="graphics19" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=97% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
16: Theme selection page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>You can also choose to customize your theme. If you click the
<I>Customize</I> button the templates that define your current
theme will be copied into your blog where you can edit theme. See
section <A HREF="#5.Customizing%20your%20weblog's%20theme%7Coutline">5
- Customizing your weblog's them</A> for more information on theme
customization.</P>
<P><B>WARNING</B>: if you <I>have</I> customized your theme, then
watch out. Switching themes using the <B>Preferences:Theme</B> page
will destroy the custom changes you've made.
</P>
<H2>4.3 - Uploading Files</H2>
<P>Roller includes a file-upload feature that allows you to upload
images and other files for use in your weblog.
</P>
<P>Here are the steps to upload an image to Roller and to use it in
a blog entry:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Upload the file</B>: Use the
<B>Ceate &amp; Edit:File Uploads</B> page to upload your image
file. Once it is loaded, locate it in the list of file uploads,
right-click on it and copy the link.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Create a weblog entry</B>:
Use the <B>Create &amp; Edit:New Entry</B> page to add or edit a
weblog entry.
</P>
<LI><P><B>Include the image</B>: Place an HTML &lt;img&gt; tag
where you want the image in your blog entry.
</P>
</UL>
<P>If you don't know HTML, you might need help with that last step.
Here is what an &lt;img&gt; tag looks like.
</P>
<PRE STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">&lt;img src=&quot;http://jroller.com/resources/mrroller/leo.gif&quot; alt=&quot;one happy baby&quot; /&gt;</PRE><P>
You need to include the <TT>src</TT> attribute and it's also good
form to include an <TT>alt</TT> attribute that describes the image
(for those who cannot see the image).
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">4.4 - Setting up a group blog</H2>
<P>To create a group blog, create a new weblog or log into an
existing weblog that you'd like members to contribute to. Creating
a weblog for group blogging is the same a creating a personal
weblog (see section <A HREF="http://www.rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=UserGuide_2.x#ref-UserGuide_2.x-3">[3]</A>
for instructions). Navigate to the <B>Members</B> menu item in the
<B>Preferences</B> tab. The <B>Preferences:Members</B> page enables
weblog admins to invite members to a group blog and manage the
group blog user access.
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame16" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.67in; height: 4.19in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_796ebdaa.png" NAME="graphics21" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
17: Weblog permissions page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>You can use the <B>Invite new member</B> link to invite any
Roller user to join you weblog, but before you do you should
understand the three different permission levels allowed for
members of a weblog. They are:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Admin</B>: an admin can create/edit weblog entries and
publish them to the web. They can also manage the weblog by
changing the theme, editing the page templates that define the
look of the blog, and managing the users of the blog. Roller will
grant you admin rights in any weblog you create. Admin users can
see both the Create &amp; Edit tab and the Preferences tab of
Roller.
</P>
<LI><P><B>Author</B>: author permission allows users to create
entries, edit entries and upload files. But authors cannot change
weblog settings, modify the theme or manage users. Authors can see
the weblog Create &amp; Edit tab, but not the weblog Preferences
tab.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Limited</B>: limited bloggers can create and edit blog
entries and save them as drafts, but cannot publish them to the
web.
</P>
</UL>
<P>Select <B>Invite new member</B> from the right navigation to
invite Admins, Authors, and Limited authors to join the group blog.
You'll need to know the users individual blog username to find them
in the list of users. You may scroll through the list, but it's
best to begin typing their username to locate them. Set the users
Permissions by selecting Admin, Author, or Limited. Click on <B>Send
Invitation</B>. If roller is not configured to talk to the mail
server, you may get the following messages:
</P>
<PRE>User successfully invited.
ERROR: Notification email(s) not sent, due to Roller configuration <BR>or mail server problem.</PRE><P>
As long as the first message is present, the invite is successful.
The next time the user logs into the blog site, they will see the
following: on the Main Menu page:
</P>
<PRE STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">You are invited to join weblog [weblog name will appear here] &ndash; accept | decline</PRE><P>
Once a user is a member of your blog, you can change their
permissions. Just click the appropriate radio button in the table
and click the <B>Save</B> button. You can also remove users from
the site, but note that you cannot reduce your own permissions or
remove youself from the weblog.
</P>
<P><B>Accept or Decline a Group Blog Invitation</B>
</P>
<P>If you are invited to become a member of a group blog, an
invitiation will be present at the top of the Main Menu page.
Example:
</P>
<PRE>You have one or more invitations to accept or decline:
You are invited to join weblog [sputnik] &ndash; accept | decline
You are invited to join weblog [dotSunNews] - accept | decline</PRE><P>
Click 'accept' to become a member of the group blog or 'decline' to
turn down the invitation.
</P>
<P><B>Contribute to a group blog</B>
</P>
<P>Once you're a member of a group blog, contributing is as easy as
creating blog entry content. To access the group blog, login, from
the <B>Main Menu</B> navigate to the group blog you'd like to
contribute to and select any of the following: New Entry, Edit
Entries, Settings (weblog admins only).
</P>
<P>For users who participate in multiple weblogs it is important to
note that the Main Menu page is how you switch between the various
weblogs you can author to. The Main Menu will always show you what
weblogs you are participating in and what privilages you have on
each weblog.
</P>
<P><B>Resign from a Group Blog</B>
</P>
<P>To resign from a group blog, login, on the Main Menu page,
navigate to the blog information for which you wish to resign.
Select 'Resign'.
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always"><A NAME="5.Customizing%20your%20weblog's%20theme|outline"></A>
5 - Customizing your weblog's theme</H1>
<P>When you create a weblog, you must select a theme. The theme
defines how your weblog will look in terms of page layout, fonts,
colors and images. If you don't like your theme, you can use the
<B>Preferences:Theme</B> page to switch to a different one.
</P>
<P>If you're not happy with the set of themes built-into Roller,
you can create a custom theme by changing the templates used to
display your weblog. To customize your theme, go to the
<B>Preferences:Theme</B> page and click the customize button. That
will copy the templates that define your theme into your weblog
where you can edit them. After you click customize, go to the
<B>Preferences:Templates</B> page to view a list of the templates
that define your weblog's appearance.
</P>
<P><B>Weblog templates</B></P>
<P>Your weblog's theme is defined by a set of templates. A template
is a file with some special macros that indicate where Roller is
supposed to put your weblog entries, weblog calendar, and other
dynamically created content. See the <B>Roller Macro Reference</B>
for a complete listing of the Roller macros. A template can be an
HTML file, an HTML fragment, a CSS page, or just about anything
else you can enter into Roller as text.
</P>
<P>Roller uses the powerful Velocity template language to define
templates and this gives you a lot of power and flexibility in
customizing the look and feel and layout of your weblog pages. You
can set and use variables, use if-then-else statements and
specially designed macros to control your weblog's appearance. For
more information on the Velocity template language, refer to the
Velocity web site and the <B>Velocity Reference Guide</B>.
</P>
<P>Below is the Roller <B>Preferences:Templates</B> page. Use this
page to add, remove, and to select pages for editing.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame17" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.74in; height: 3.87in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m66b60ed6.png" NAME="graphics22" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
18: Weblog templates page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><B>Editing a weblog template</B></P>
<P>Below is the <B>Preferences:Edit Tempate</B> page which you use
for editing of your page templates. Note that if the page name
begins with an underbar &quot;_&quot; then the page will not appear
in your weblog's navigation menu.
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame18" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.42in; height: 6.65in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_65a662dd.png" NAME="graphics26" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
19: Edit template page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">5.1 - Weblog and day
templates
</H2>
<P>Every Roller theme is a little different, but all themes have a
minimum of two templates: a <B>Weblog</B> template, which defines
the main page of your blog, and a <B>_day</B> page, which defines
how each day of entries are displayed on your weblog. Let's discuss
each of these templates.</P>
<P><B>Your Weblog page</B>
</P>
<P>Your weblog page is the main page of your web site, the one that
is specified as the default page in your <B>Preferences:Settings</B>
page. This page is the page that displays the entries in your
weblog, your weblog calendar, etc. This page can be very complex,
or very simple, depending on your page design.
</P>
<P>To understand the weblog template, let's take a look at a simple
example. Below is the weblog page template from Roller's Basic
theme. This is a good example because it is so basic and because it
uses most, if not all, of the Roller macros that you'd want to use
on a weblog page. Roller macros and Velocity expressions are shown
in bold.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<PRE STYLE="margin-left: 0.5in">&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN&quot;&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;<B>#showWebsiteTitle()</B>&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;<B>#includePage(&quot;_css&quot;)</B>&lt;/style&gt;
<B>#showRSSAutodiscoveryLink()</B>
&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;<B>$ctxPath</B>/theme/scripts/roller.js&quot;&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; width=&quot;95%&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td class=&quot;entries&quot; width=&quot;80%&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; bgcolor=&quot;#ffffff&quot;&gt;
&lt;center&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;<B>#showWebsiteTitle()</B>&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;descrip&quot;&gt;<B>#showWebsiteDescription()</B>&lt;/p&gt;
<B>#showWeblogCategoryChooser()</B>&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/center&gt;
<B>#showWeblogEntries(&quot;_day&quot; 15)</B>
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width=&quot;20%&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; bgcolor=&quot;#ffffff&quot; width=&quot;20%&quot;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Calendar&lt;/h2&gt;
<B>#showWeblogCalendar()</B>&lt;br&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;RSS Feeds&lt;/h2&gt;
<B>#showRSSBadge()</B>&lt;br&gt;
<B>#showRSSLinks()</B>
&lt;h2&gt;Links&lt;/h2&gt;
<B>#showBookmarks(&quot;Blogroll&quot; true false)</B>&lt;br&gt;
<B>#showBookmarks(&quot;News&quot; true false)</B>
&lt;h2&gt;Navigation&lt;/h2&gt;
<B>#showBasicNavBar(true)</B>&lt;br&gt;
<B>#showEditorNavBar(true)</B>&lt;br&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;referrers&lt;/h2&gt;
#<B>showreferrers(30 20)</B>
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</PRE><P>
For a listing of key Roller macros and variables, refer to the
section below. The most important macro on the page is the
<B>#showWeblogEntries</B> macro. As you can see, it takes two
arguments, the first is the name of the day page to use in the
display of the weblog entries and the second is the number of
weblog entries to be displayed on the page.
</P>
<P><B>Your Day Page</B>
</P>
<P>Your Day page is used by the <B>#showWeblogEntries</B> macro to
display your weblog entries. This is where you customize the
display of each day and of each weblog entry. Returning to our
example, below is the day page from the Basic theme:
</P>
<PRE STYLE="margin-left: 0.49in">&lt;div class=&quot;box&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;entry&quot;&gt;
<B>#showDayPermalink( $day )</B>
<B>#showEntryDate( $day )</B>
&lt;/div&gt;
<B>#foreach( $entry in $entries )</B>
&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;<B>$entry.title</B>&lt;/b&gt; <B>$entry.text</B>
&lt;span class=&quot;dateStamp&quot;&gt;(<B>$entry.pubTime</B>)&lt;/span&gt;
<B>#showEntryPermalink( $entry )</B>
<B>#showCommentsPageLink( $entry )</B>
&lt;/p&gt;
<B>#end </B>
<B>#showLinkbacks( $day )</B>
&lt;/div&gt;</PRE><P>
Note that there are two variables <B>$day</B> and <B>$entries</B>
available for use in the day template that are not available in
other templates. The <B>$day</B> variable refers to a date object
(<FONT FACE="Courier New">java.util.date</FONT>) that contains the
date of the day that is being rendered by the day page. The
<B>$entries</B> variable contains a collection of weblog entry
objects (<FONT FACE="Courier New">org.roller.model.WeblogEntryData</FONT>).
The example above uses a Velocity <B>#foreach</B> loop to iterate
through the individual entries in the entries collection and to
display the title, text, and publish time of each.
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">5.2 - Define standard headers
and footers with a decorator</H2>
<P>Some themes use a decorator, a special page that serves as a
sort of Master Template for a website (i.e. for your blog). A
decorator allows you to define a standard header and footer for all
of your pages so that you don't have to repeat the same header and
footer on every page. If your website defines a page named
_decorator (and all new Roller themes do), then Roller will use
that _decorator to display all of your pages.
</P>
<P>Here is an example of a decorator page. At page display time,
Roller will insert the contents of the page being displayed where
you see the <B>$decorator_body</B> marker below:
</P>
<PRE STYLE="margin-left: 0.51in">&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN&quot;&gt;
&lt;!-- decorator began with line above --&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
<B>#showContentType(&quot;text/html; charset=utf-8&quot;)</B>
<B>#showContentLanguage($locale.language)</B>
<B>#includePage(&quot;_css&quot;)</B>
<B>#showRSSAutodiscoveryLink()</B>
&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;<B>$ctxPath</B>/theme/scripts/roller.js&quot;&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;title&gt;<B>#showWebsiteTitle()</B> : <B>#showPageName()</B>&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;!-- next print \$decorator_body --&gt;
<B>$decorator_body</B>
&lt;!-- now print decorator footer/close html --&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</PRE><P>
If you have a decorator like the above, then you don't need to
include &lt;html&gt; and &lt;body&gt; tags on your individual
pages.
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">5.3 - Roller Macros and
Variables
</H2>
<P>For a complete list of the Roller Macros, see the Roller Macro
Reference.
</P>
<P>There are also a host of variables and objects that are
available for your use in page templates:
</P>
<DL>
<DD>
<TABLE WIDTH=610 BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=3>
<COL WIDTH=119>
<COL WIDTH=472>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=119>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$now</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=472>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The current time (a java.util.Date object).</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=119>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$ctxPath</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=472>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The path under which Roller is running (see
Webapp context).</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=119>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$baseURL</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=472>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Base URL for your Roller website </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=119>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$absBaseURL</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=472>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Absolute base URL for your Roller website.</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=119>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$uploadPath</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=472>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The location where uploaded files are placed.</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=119>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$user</B></FONT></P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=472>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The current user object for the page/entry
being viewed.</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=119>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$userName</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=472>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The current user's username.</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DL>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<DL>
<DD>
<TABLE WIDTH=608 BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=3>
<COL WIDTH=118>
<COL WIDTH=471>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=118>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$fullName</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=471>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The current user's full name.</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=118>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$emailAddress</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=471>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The current user's email address.</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=118>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$website</B></FONT></P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=471>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The website for the current user.</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=118>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$page</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=471>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The current page being viewed.</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=118>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$requestParameters</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=471>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>A map of the request parameters </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=118>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$rollerVersion</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=471>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Version number of Roller software</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=118>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$utilities</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=471>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>A utilities object </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=118>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$stringUtils</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=471>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>A string utilities object</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DL>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>Date formatting variables and objects:
</P>
<DL>
<DD>
<TABLE WIDTH=607 BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=3>
<COL WIDTH=120>
<COL WIDTH=468>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=120>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$dateFormatter</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=468>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Date formatter object </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=120>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$toStringFormat</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=468>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>A date format to be used with the macro
formatDate( $dateFormat $date ) :<BR>EEEE MMMM dd, yyyy</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=120>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$plainFormat</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=468>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Another date format for use with the
formatDate() macro:<BR>yyyyMMdd</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DL>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>If the page is a day page template, then these variables are
available too:
</P>
<DL>
<DD>
<TABLE WIDTH=608 BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=3>
<COL WIDTH=123>
<COL WIDTH=466>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=123>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$day</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=466>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Date object holding date being displayed</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=123>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$entries</B></FONT></P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=466>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Collection of entries for date being displayed</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DL>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>If the page is a comments page, then these variables are
available:
</P>
<DL>
<DD>
<TABLE WIDTH=607 BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=3>
<COL WIDTH=125>
<COL WIDTH=463>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=125>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$isCommentPage</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=463>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>will be set to true</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=125>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$entry</B></FONT></P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=463>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>weblog entry containing collection of comments</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=125>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$autoFormat</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=463>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>True if comments should be autoformatted</FONT></P>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=125>
<P><FONT SIZE=2><B>$escapeHtml</B> </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH=463>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>True if HTML should be escaped </FONT>
</P>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DL>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<H2>5.4 - Creating and packaging your own Roller theme
</H2>
<P>A Roller theme is, at a minimum, a subdirectory in the Roller
<I>themes</I> directory with a page template named Weblog.vm in it.
How does Roller determine what themes are available? Roller
considers every subdirectory in the themes directory to be a theme.
</P>
<P><B>How does Roller create a theme?</B>
</P>
<P>When you create a new user or switch themes for an existing
user, Roller will read in a new theme for that user. When Roller
reads in a theme for a user, all it is does is to create or replace
the user's page templates. Roller follows these steps to read in a
theme:
</P>
<OL>
<LI><P>For each file in the theme's subdirectory that ends with
<I>.vm</I> Roller creates a page template with the same name as
the file, minus the <I>.vm</I> extension
</P>
</OL>
<OL>
<LI><P>The page template that is named <I>Weblog</I> is set to be
the website's default page.
</P>
</OL>
<P><B>Including images, Javascript and CSS style sheets in a theme</B>
</P>
<P>If you want to create a more sophisticated theme, one that takes
advantage of the Roller theme macros, you can use the following
directory structure for your theme (as illustrated in the x2
theme):
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame19" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 1.74in; height: 1.31in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m641d153f.png" NAME="graphics27" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
20: Theme directory structure</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>The page templates go in the root directory of the theme, images
in the <I>images</I> directory, Javascript files in the <I>scripts</I>
directory, and CSS style sheets in the <I>styles</I> directory.
Then, you can make your theme <I>distributable</I> by using
relative paths to get to all of your themes images, scripts, and
style sheets. You do this by using the Roller theme macros, listed
below, whenever you refer to a file in your theme:
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">#showThemeScript( themeName,
scriptFileName )
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">#showThemeScriptPath( themeName
)
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">#showThemeStyleImport(
themeName, scriptFileName )
</P>
<LI><P>#showThemeStyle( themeName, styleFileName )
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">#showThemeStylePath( themeName,
styleFileName )
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">#showThemeImage( themeName,
imageFileName )
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">#showThemeImagePath( themeName,
imageFileName )
</P>
<LI><P>#showThemePath( themeName )
</P>
</UL>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">5.5 - Overriding Roller
Macros
</H2>
<P>When creating your custom theme, you may find that a Roller
macro, such as <TT>#showEntryDate( $day)</TT> does not produce the
output that you want. You should first check the Roller Macro
Reference<A HREF="http://www.rollerweblogger.org/velocidoc"> </A>to
see if there is another macro that does what you want. If not, you
can replace the call to the macro with a modified version of the
code that makes up the macro.
</P>
<P>For example, if you have the following fragment in your <TT>_day</TT>
template:
</P>
<PRE> &lt;div class=&quot;entry&quot;&gt;
#showDayPermalink( $day )
#showEntryDate( $day )
&lt;/div&gt;</PRE><P>
and you don't like the default output generated by
#showEntryDate().</P>
<PRE STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in"> Thursday January 05, 2006</PRE><P>
You can look at the definition of <TT>#showEntryDate</TT> in
<TT>weblog.vm</TT>:
</P>
<PRE> #**
* Display the default Date.toString for date using the
* 'macro.weblog.date.toStringFormat'
* format as defined in the resource bundle.
* @param toStringFormat Format string (see java.text.SimpleDateFormat).
* @param day Date object that specifies day (type java.util.Date).
*#
#macro( showEntryDate $day )
#set( $format=$text.get(&quot;macro.weblog.date.toStringFormat&quot;) )
#formatDate( $format $day )
##formatDate( $toStringFormat $day )
#end</PRE><P>
You could then modify the &quot;entry&quot; <TT>div</TT> in your
<TT>_day</TT> template as follows:
</P>
<PRE> &lt;div class=&quot;entry&quot;&gt;
#showDayPermalink( $day )
#formatDate( &quot;MM/dd/yyyy&quot; $day )
&lt;/div&gt;
</PRE><P>
Now the generated date will look like this:
</P>
<PRE STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in"> 01/05/2006</PRE><P>
Warning: This is for advanced users only. If you make an error your
web page may not display correctly, or display at all.
</P>
<P>You can find the source for the various Roller macro <TT>.vm</TT>
files in the Roller distribution that matches your installation.
Todo: add links to on-line versions of the latest <TT>.vm</TT>
files. (?)
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always">6 - Managing
your weblog's blogroll</H1>
<P>Roller makes it easy to maintain a <I>blogroll</I>, that is, a
list of your favorite weblogs and web sites that is displayed in
the sidebar of your weblog.
</P>
<H2>6.1 - Adding new links to your blogroll</H2>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">Individual blogroll items are
known as <I>bookmarks</I>. </SPAN>Use the <B>Create &amp;
Edit:Bookmarks</B> page to add, edit and delete bookmarks and
bookmark folders in your blogroll.
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame20" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 5.73in; height: 5.07in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m1965909a.png" NAME="graphics33" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
21: Bookmarks management page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Here are some notes about the
bookmarks page:</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The Add bookmark link takes you
to the Add bookmark form, see below.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The Add folder link talks you to
the Add folder form, see below.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The check-box allows you to
select a bookmark for deletion or for moving to another folder.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The Edit icon allows you to edit
a bookmark using the Edit bookmark form, see below.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The Visit icon allows you to
visit the link.</P>
</UL>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<H2><B>6.2 - Adding new links to your blogroll</B></H2>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">The Add/Edit bookmark form, shown
below, allows you to enter information about one bookmark.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Here's an explanation of the fields:</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><SPAN ID="Frame23" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 79%; height: 255%; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m5f34e5af.png" NAME="graphics35" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
22: Add and edit bookmark form</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>Name: Text to be displayed on the link
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Description: Description,
displayed when viewer hovers over link</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Bookmark URL: The URL of the
bookmark</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Newsfeed URL: The URL of the
newsfeed associated with the bookmark (if any)</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Sort priority: Lower numbered
bookmarks displayed first in blogroll</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Display weight: Higher numbered
bookmarks displayed bolder/larger</P>
</UL>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">6.3 - Adding new bookmark
folders</H2>
<P>If you'd like to display a separate list of links somewhere on
your weblog, or you'd like to store links in Roller for some other
reason, you can use the Add folder form, shown below, to do that.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame21" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 5.48in; height: 2.78in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_f21d9b9.png" NAME="graphics34" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=99% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
23: Add folder form</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Displaying new bookmark folders</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<P>You can use the <B>#showBookmarks()</B> macro to display your
bookmarks on your website pages. The macro will display all of the
bookmarks in one of your bookmark folders. The arguments are <I>String
folderName</I>, <I>boolean showFolderName</I>, and <I>boolean
expandingFolder</I>. The expanding folder feature is implemented
using Javascript so, it will only work if the Roller Javascript
file is included on the page where the macro is used.
</P>
<P>For example, let's say that you want to display a folder named
&quot;News&quot;, you want to display the folder name, and you want
to display it as an expanding folder. First, near the top and
inside the &lt;head&gt; tag of your page, include the Roller
Javascript page roller.js, as shown below:
</P>
<PRE STYLE="margin-left: 0.49in">...
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;My badass blog&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;/theme/scripts/roller.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
...</PRE><P STYLE="margin-left: -0.01in">
Later in your page, include the <B>#showBookmarks</B> macro to
display your bookmarks:
</P>
<PRE STYLE="margin-left: 0.49in">...
#showBookmarks( &quot;News&quot; true true )
...</PRE><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">
<BR>
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">6.4 - Bookmark import and
export via OPML</H2>
<P>Roller makes it easy to import bookmarks and build your blogroll
by importing bookmarks in OPML format. XBEL might be a better
bookmarks format, but OPML is more popular in the world of weblogs.
</P>
<P><I>How to import OPML into Roller</I></P>
<OL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">download bookmarks in OPML
format from a site such as Scripting.COM and save them as a file
on your hard disk.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Login to Roller and choose the
Bookmarks:Import menu option.
</P>
<LI><P>Use the file-upload capability to upload the OPML file into
Roller. The bookmarks will be imported into a folder called
&quot;unfiled&quot;. You can use Roller to organize the bookmarks
as you wish.
</P>
</OL>
<P><I>How to export OPML from Roller</I></P>
<P STYLE="font-style: normal">Your bookmarks are automatically made
available in OPML form via a URL of the form:</P>
<P STYLE="font-style: normal"> http://<I>serverhostname</I>/flavor/<I>webloghandle</I>?flavor=opml</P>
<P>You can also export one specific folder by using the path
paramter. For example, if you have a folder called Solaris, export
it like so:</P>
<P> http://<I>serverhostname</I>/flavor/<I>webloghandle</I>?flavor=opml&amp;path=/Solaris
</P>
<P><I><B>NOTE:</B> For OPML export, Roller bookmarks must have at
least a name and an HTML url; the name is taken from the text
attribute (or if that is absent, the title attribute) of the OPML
element, and the HTML url is taken from the htmlUrl attribute (or
if that is absent, the url attribute) of the OPML element; if this
forms a bookmark lacking a name or HTML URL then that entry will be
silently skipped during import. </I>
</P>
<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always">7 - Using a
blog client with Roller
</H1>
<P>A blog client allows you to post to Roller remotely, from your
desktop or from some other web site. For example, desktop
applications such as Ecto and MarsEdit can post to Roller and so
can the photo-sharing web site Flickr.com. This is possible because
Roller supports the standard Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs.
</P>
<P><B>Configuring a blog client for use with Roller</B></P>
<P>First, make sure to enable Blogger API support in your weblog
via the <B>Preferences:Settings</B> page. Next, start your blogging
client, find the preferences or account setup dialog. You'll need
to set the following parameters:</P>
<P> Username: your Roller username</P>
<P> Password: your Roller password</P>
<P> BlogID: the handle of your Roller weblog</P>
<P> URL: the URL of Roller's XML-RPC endpoint</P>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium">Note that you may not need to enter
your BlogID because some blog clients will login to Roller and then
present you with a list of the weblogs that are available to your
user.
</P>
<P><B>A blogs.sun.com example</B></P>
<P>For example, if you have an account on blogs.sun.com, your
username is fred and your blog's handle is fredsblog (i.e. your
weblog's URL is <I>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/fredsblog</I>), then
your paramters would be:</P>
<P> Username: fred</P>
<P> Password: (your password)</P>
<P> BlogID: fredsblog</P>
<P> URL: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/xmlrpc
</P>
<P>You may not need to enter your BlogID because some blog clients
will login to Roller and then present you with a list of the
weblogs that are available to your user.
</P>
<P><B>A jroller.com example</B></P>
<P>If you have an account on jroller.com, your username is fred and
your blog's handle is fredsblog (i.e. your weblog's URL is
<I>http://jroller.com/fredsblog</I>), then your paramters would be:</P>
<P> Username: fred</P>
<P> Password: (your password)</P>
<P> BlogID: fredsblog</P>
<P> URL: http://jroller.com/xmlrpc
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always">8 - Using
weblog pings</H1>
<P>Weblog update pings provide a means for you to notify
aggregation and indexing sites, (for example Weblogs.com,
Technorati and javablogs.com) that your weblog has changed so that
they will pick up your latest content from your RSS feed.
</P>
<P>Roller supports conventional XML-RPC weblog update ping
mechanism used by many sites for such notifications.
</P>
<H2>8.1 - Registering with an Aggregator</H2>
<P>Generally speaking, aggregation sites first require you to
register your weblog with their site. During this registration
process you normally provide both the HTTP URL and the RSS feed URL
for your weblog. This is important because the ping message conveys
only the normal HTTP URL of your site, and the site will use that
to lookup the registered RSS feed URL to fetch from.
</P>
<P>Aggegation sites that accept ping notifications generally
publish the ping URL to use to ping their site on their
(human-readable) web site. Once you have registered your site with
an aggregator, you can set up your weblog to deliver pings to that
site.
</P>
<H2>8.2 - Ping Targets, Common and Custom</H2>
<P>You can set up the Roller server to ping sites of your choice
automatically whenever you post published updates to your weblog.
</P>
<P>Roller uses the term <B>ping target</B> to refer to a site, such
as an aggregator, that accepts weblog update ping notifications. A
ping target is configured with a (display) name and the ping URL
needed to reach the site. Before you can send a ping to a site, you
must configure a ping target in Roller for the site. Roller
supports the configuration of two types of ping targets:
</P>
<DL>
<DT><B>common ping targets</B></DT><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">
These are ping targets that are configured by a Roller
administrator, and are available to be used by all users. This
allows the ping URLs for several well-known aggregator sites to be
configured once for everybody.
</DD><DT>
<B>custom ping targets</B></DT><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">
These are ping targets that are configured by individual users. If
you don't find the site you wish to ping in one of the common ping
targets, you can configure your own custom ping target.
</DD></DL>
<H2>
8.3 - Setting up Automated Pings</H2>
<P>Once a ping target (either a common ping target or a custom ping
target) has been configured for the site that you wish to ping, you
can use the <B>Weblog:Pings</B> page (shown below) to enable
automatic pings and send manual pings.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame24" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.45in; height: 5.49in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m31cb7c1f.png" NAME="graphics40" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
24: Automatic ping configuration page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>To enable automatic pings to a ping target, find the ping target
on the page and click the <B>Enable</B> link in the Automatic
column. The status indicator turns to <B>ON</B> and the link
changes to <B>Disable</B> (as shown for some sites in the
screenshot above). To disable automatic pings to a ping target
click the <B>Disable</B> link in the Automatic column. The status
indicator turns to <B>OFF</B> and the link changes to <B>Enable</B>.
</P>
<P>Custom ping targets that you have configured are displayed on
this page in a separate table below the common ping targets; they
work in the same way. You may need to scroll down the page to see
them
</P>
<P>When you have enabled automatic pinging for a ping target,
Roller will automatically send a ping to that site whenever you
publish a new weblog entry or update a published weblog entry.
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.5in"><I><B>Note:</B> In actuality, Roller
queues a request to send the ping and processes this request in the
background, so that you can get on with your blogging. The ping
queue is processed at an interval configured by the site
administrator; this interval is 5 minutes in a default
configuration. In case the aggregator site is temporarily
unreachable, Roller will requeue your ping request and retry on
subsequent passes through the queue; in a default configuration the
ping is requeued for up to 3 ping attempts.</I>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<H2>8.4 - Sending a Manual Ping</H2>
<P>You can also send a manual ping to a ping target using the <B>Send
Ping Now</B> link listed for the target on the <B>Weblog:Pings</B>
page. When you send a manual ping the ping is not queued, it is
sent immediately and attempted only once. Roller shows you the
response status (success or a failure message) that results from
the ping. Using manual pings, you can test your custom ping targets
to make sure that the URL you have entered is working properly.
</P>
<P>You do not need to enable automatic pinging in order to send
manual pings. You can send a manual ping whether or not you have
enabled automatic pinging for that target.
</P>
<P>You can use manual pings if you ping a site very rarely, or if
you are feeling a bit impatient, and you don't want to wait for the
next queue processing interval.
</P>
<H2>8.5 - Creating and Editing Custom Ping Targets</H2>
<P>You should find that most popular ping targets are listed among
the common ping targets and you can ping these without needing to
create a new custom one. If you don't find a common target listed
for the site you wish to ping, you have two options. You can
request that your administrator add a new common ping target
(directions in <A HREF="http://www.rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=UserGuide_2.x#ref-UserGuide_2.x-21">[21]</A>);
most likely, your friendly Roller administrator will be happy to
add new common ping targets for aggregator sites that many other
users will also be interested in using. Alternatively, you can add
your own custom ping target using the <B>Weblog:Custom Ping Targets</B>
page.
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.49in"><I><B>Note:</B> Custom ping targets
are a feature that the administrator can disable. If you do not see
<B>Weblog:Custom Ping Targets</B> menu item, or any heading for
Custom Ping Targets on the <B>Weblog:Pings</B> page, then an
administrator has disabled it, and you will need to contact an
administrator to get a new common ping target added.</I>
</P>
<P>Before adding a custom ping target, you must determine the
proper ping URL for the site that you wish to ping. You must get
this information from the aggregator's web site or from another
knowledgeable source.
</P>
<P>It can be hard to find the aggregator's documentation telling
you the specific ping URL to use to notify their site. Commonly
aggregators list this on their web site under a topic providing
help about registering your feed, or under a topic providing
information for developers. Keep in mind that some aggregators only
use periodic polling and do not accept ping notifications at all.
If you can't find any information about pinging on the aggregator's
web site, the site may not support pinging.
</P>
<P>Once you have found the proper ping URL, you can add your custom
target using the <B>Weblog:Custom Ping Targets</B> page, which
looks something like the following screen-shot.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame25" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.44in; height: 3.25in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_5393469f.png" NAME="graphics45" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
25: Custom ping targets page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>Click the <B>Add New</B> button to add a new custom ping target.
This will bring up a form with a <B>Name</B> field and a <B>Ping
URL</B> field. Fill in both fields, and click the <B>Save</B>
button.
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame26" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 5.17in; height: 1.89in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m600d3053.png" NAME="graphics46" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=88% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
26: Edit ping target form</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>Once you have created a custom ping target, you will see it
listed on the <B>Weblog:Custom Ping Targets</B> page. From this
page, you can further edit it or delete it. To enable automatic
pings or send manual using your custom ping targets, use the
<B>Weblog:Pings</B> page.
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>The ping target's name must be unique among your own custom
targets, and the Ping URL must be a properly formed URL with a
known hostname (or a raw IP address). If any of these conditions
are not met, the <B>Save</B> will fail, and you will get an error
indication telling you what was wrong with your entry</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">8.6 - More on Registering
with an Aggregator</H2>
<P>When you register with an aggregator, you will usually need to
provide two pieces of information as part of the registration, your
blog's base (HTML) url and your RSS feed (XML) URL. Make sure to
read the aggregator's documentation and help on registering.
</P>
<P>For Roller weblogs, you get your weblog's base URL by viewing
your weblog and taking the URL to the point just following your
weblog's handle. (In other words it should end with
<TT>page</TT>/<I>handlenamehere</I>).
</P>
<P>The RSS feed URL for your whole feed can be obtained by
substituting <TT>page</TT> in your weblog's URL with <TT>RSS</TT>.
Most browsers will display this link in the status bar when you
place your mouse over RSS badge (the little orange XML box) on your
weblog page.
</P>
<P>You also have category-specific feeds, which are useful for
registering with topical aggregators like <B>java.blogs</B>. To get
a category-specific feed URL, just append <TT>?catname=</TT><I>/category/path</I>
where <I>/category/path</I> is the full path of the category. The
&quot;basic&quot; theme has some category RSS feeds just below the
RSS badge in the right-hand vertical bar.
</P>
<P>Some aggregators can also scrape (read and parse the HTML of
your weblog) to discover the feed URL automatically when provided
with the HTML URL. The default Roller theme template pages include
hints in the form of tags that many sites can use to determine the
feed URL automatically.
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<DIV ID="Section1" DIR="LTR">
<DIV ID="Section3" DIR="LTR">
<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always">9 - Roller
administration</H1>
<P>The section of the Roller user guide is for users with the
global admin role. How do you get the admin role? The first user
created in a Roller system gets that role and then can grant it
to other users via the <B>Global Admin-&gt;User Admin</B> page,
which just happens to be the first topic we'll cover in the
section.</P>
<P>We'll also describe how to configure Roller via the <B>Global
Admin-&gt;Configuration </B>page and how to configure Roller's
custom ping facility via the <B>Global Admin-&gt;Ping Targets</B>
page.</P>
<H2>9.1 - Managing users</H2>
<P>The <B>Global Admin-&gt;User Admin</B> page, shown below,
allows you to find users, edit users and create new users.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame22" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.48in; height: 4.17in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m4b577c06.png" NAME="graphics12" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
27: User admin page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>To find a user, just enter the user's username in the username
in the the Username field and click the edit button. If you don't
know the user's username, then start typing what you think might
be the first letters of her username or email address and the
list-box will be populated with all users whose usernames or
email addresses match. When you see the user you want in the list
box, click her and then click the Edit button to edit her user
information.</P>
<P>You can also create a new user by clicking the <B>create a new
user link</B>.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>When a user is loaded into the <B>Global Admin-&gt;User Admin</B>
page, or when you create a new user, you'll see the form shown
below. You can set the user's full name, email address, locale
and timezone. You can also reset the user's password, if you
enter both a password and password confirmation fields.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><SPAN ID="Frame9" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.56in; height: 5.51in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m54dbe4ad.png" NAME="graphics18" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
28: User admin form</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">You can also <SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">disable
a user</SPAN>, which will prevent the user from logging into
Roller.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Or you can check the Administrator
checkbox to grant grant the user Global Admin privileges.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">At the bottom of the page, there's
a <B>Users Weblogs</B> section, which you can use to edit any of
the user's weblogs. This feature is here to make it easy for
Global Admin's to help users who are having trouble with any of
Roller's features, so please use it for that reason only; don't
use it to invade your user's privacy.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>There's one important
limitation: currently there is currently no way to delete a user.</B></P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">9.2 - Configuring Roller</H2>
<P>The <B>Global Admin-&gt;Configuration</B> page allows you to
set Roller's runtime configuration properties. It is a big page,
so we will discuss each section separately below.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame29" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.44in; height: 2.3in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m4fe3f61b.png" NAME="graphics20" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
29: Config page: site settings</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Site name</B>: name of the
site, to be included in site-wide newsfeeds (RSS and Atom) and
on the default front page of the Roller.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Short name</B>: short name
of the site, to be included as the link in the banner that
appears at the top of every page in the Roller editor/admin UI.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Site description</B>:
description of site, to be included in site-wide newsfeeds (RSS
and Atom) and on the default front page of the site.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Site Administrator's email
Address</B>: admin's email address, to be include in side-side
newsfeeds (RSS and Atom)</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Absolute URL to this site</B>:
to be used as basis for creating absolute URLs. Required for
Roller's Planet aggregator feature.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Suspend all ping
processing</B>: Allows you to turn off all (outgoing) weblogs
pings for all weblogs in the system.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Enable debug mode</B>:
currently not used.</P>
<P></P>
</UL>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame30" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.49in; height: 1.86in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m3a18f583.png" NAME="graphics23" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
30: Config page: user settings</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Allow New Users</B>: Set
this to enable the <I>register as new user</I> link on the main
page. If you turnoff user creation, you'll only be able to
create new users via the <B>Global Admin-&gt;User Admin</B>
page.</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>External registration URL</B>:
Controls the URL of Roller's &ldquo;Register as new users&rdquo;
link. If you use an external system to create Roller users and
blogs, set the URL of that system here.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Editor pages</B>: this is
the list of weblog editors to be provided to users.</P>
</UL>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_6aedbe24.png" NAME="graphics39" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
31: Config: comments</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Allow weblog comments</B>: By un-setting this you can
turn off weblog comments on all weblogs in the system.</P>
<LI><P><B>Allow trackbacks</B>: By un-setting this you can turn
off incoming trackbacks on all weblogs in the system.</P>
<LI><P><B>Autoformat comments</B>: If this is on, Roller will
auto-format comments by adding in line-breaks where appropriate.</P>
<LI><P><B>Escape comment HTML</B>: By setting this, you can
disallow HTML in comments and thereby protect your site from
malicious JavaScript and some forms of cross-site scripting.</P>
<LI><P><B>E-mail notification of comments</B>: set this to
enable email notification of new comments. This won't work
unless you configured Roller properly for sending email as
described in the Roller installation guide.</P>
<LI><P><B>Enable verification of trackback links</B>: Trackback
verification checks each incoming trackback to verify that the
site sending the trackback actually links to the specific weblog
entry that is the target of the trackback.</P>
<LI><P><B>Enable referrer linkback extraction</B>: NOT
RECOMMENDED. This is an experimental feature and it is not known
to be working correctly.</P>
</UL>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame31" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.38in; height: 1.94in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m5eead6e8.png" NAME="graphics24" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
32: Config page: file upload settings</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Enable File Uploads</B>:
Are users allowed to upload files?
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Allowed Extensions</B>:
Comma-separated list of file extensions that users are allowed
to upload.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Forbidden Extensions</B>:
Comma-separated list of file extensions that users are NOT
allowed to upload.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Max File Size (MB)</B>:
Maximum size of file that users are allowed to upload.
</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Max Directory Size (MB)</B>:
Total upload directory size per user.
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"></P>
</UL>
<P>
</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m6046b9c9.png" NAME="graphics25" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
33: Config page: newsfeed settings</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Default number of entries</B>:
default number of entries to appear in each newsfeed (RSS and
Atom).</P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Maximum number of entries</B>:
maximum number of entries to be allowed in each newsfeed (RSS
and Atom).</P>
</UL>
<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always">10 - Weblog
update ping administration</H1>
<P>This section, intended for Roller administrators, describes
how Roller weblog update ping feature works and how to configure
and administer it.</P>
<H2>10.1 - Creating and editing common ping targets</H2>
<P>Common ping targets are ping targets that are shared by all
users. You can create and edit common ping targets using the
<B>Global Admin-&gt;Ping Targets</B> page.
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame33" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.39in; height: 3.53in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
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34: Common weblog ping targets</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>You can create and edit common ping in the same way that
regular users create and edit custom ping targets, but keep in
mind that common ping targets are shared amongst all users, and
that your changes affect all users using the ping target.
</P>
<P>Administrators should make sure to test new common ping
targets after creating them.
</P>
<H2>10.2 - How Roller Processes Weblog Update Pings</H2>
<P>Roller processes weblog update pings in the background. When a
user updates his or her weblog, Roller automatically queues any
required automated pings on a queue. Roller only keeps one ping
queue entry for a given user weblog and ping target. Subsequent
updates to a weblog occurring before the ping is processed will
not cause additional pings to be queued.
</P>
<P>Roller makes a full pass through the ping queue at regular
intervals. (Configuration of this interval is discussed below) In
each pass, Roller will attempt to send every queued ping request
once. If any send fails (and provided the failure appears to be a
transient one), the ping request will be re-queued, until the
ping succeeds or a configured number of attempts has been made.
Note that when a ping request fails and is re-queued, it is
processed again only on subsequent ping passes. If the number of
attempts to reach a given ping target reaches the maximum without
succeeding, then an error message is logged and the ping request
is dropped.
</P>
<P>There is currently no mechanism for alerting users of failing
ping targets (though we plan some improvements in subsequent
releases to provide condition information on the weblog
<B>Preferences-&gt;Pings</B> page, as well as a failure policy to
deactivate persistently failing ping targets).
</P>
<H2>10.3 - Configuration Properties Controlling Ping Processing</H2>
<P>These properties control processing of the ping queue. They
are configured in the <TT><FONT FACE="Courier New">roller.properties</FONT></TT><FONT FACE="Courier New">
</FONT>file.
</P>
<DL>
<DD STYLE="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0.2in"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><B>pings.queueProcessingIntervalMins
</B>The interval in minutes between ping queue processing runs.
This must be a value in the range 0 to 120. The default value is
5 minutes. We think the default value should work for most
sites, and is tolerable for most users. The number of users
publishing or updating entries in a given interval determines
the length of the queue, and Roller requires enough time in an
interval to process the queue once. We think that for all but
the largest and most active sites, it can probably be lowered as
low as 1 minute if desired. <B>IMPORTANT</B>: The value 0 (zero)
has a special meaning. If the processing interval is set to 0,
ping queue processing is disabled on the server. This can be
used to exclude all but one host from sending pings in a
clustered environment where multiple Roller servers are sharing
one database schema. <B>Make sure to retain one host in the
cluster that does process the ping queue!</B> If multiple hosts
in a cluster process the ping queue, you may send duplicate
pings and failing ping requests may drop out of the queue sooner
than the expected maximum (configured by the next parameter). If
no hosts in a cluster process the ping queue, auto ping requests
will accumulate in the queue and this will eventually cause the
database to run out of space, so don't try to use this as a way
to disable ping features. You can use the properties described
in the following sections to disable ping features. </FONT>
</DD><DD STYLE="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0.2in">
<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><B>pings.maxPingAttempts
</B>The maximum number of ping attempts made before the ping
request will no longer be requeued and will instead be dropped
from the queue. The default value is 3. We think this value is
fine for most sites. </FONT>
</DD></DL>
<H2>
10.4 - Suspending all ping processing</H2>
<P>Administrators can suspend all ping processing at runtime by
checking the <B>Suspend ping processing?</B> checkbox under the
<B>Site Settings</B> heading on the <B>Global
Admin-&gt;Configuration</B> page and saving that form.
</P>
<P>When this checkbox is set, all ping processing is suspended.
New automatic ping requests are not added to the queue, and
existing entries on the queue are not processed. Manual pings are
not sent either; they result in a message telling the user that
ping processing has been suspended. Suspending ping processing is
appropriate to temporarily stop all ping processing if problems
are encountered.
</P>
<P>Unchecking the checkbox and saving allows normal ping
processing to resume. Note, however, that autopings for weblogs
that are updated while ping processing is suspended will never be
queued and hence never sent, but pings queued before the
suspension are sent once the suspension is lifted.
</P>
<H2>10.5 - Controlling and disabling ping usage</H2>
<P>Since use of a ping target causes an outbound network
connection to the ping site, some administrators may not want to
allow users to create their own custom ping targets. It is
possible to enable or disable the use of custom ping targets
across the whole site and also to disable all ping usage. The
following two properties are used to control this.
</P>
<DL>
<DD STYLE="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0.2in"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><B>pings.disallowCustomTargets.
</B>This property controls whether users are allowed to create
custom ping targets. If set to true, all existing custom ping
targets are <I>removed</I>, and the <B>Weblog:Custom Ping
Targets</B> page and the associated actions are disabled
preventing any configuration of custom ping targets. <B>Note:</B>
<I>Setting this to true this will cause the Roller server to
</I>remove <I>any custom ping targets that users have created
when Roller is next started.</I> </FONT>
</DD></DL>
<P>
Administrators may also wish to disable ping functionality
entirely. The following property, used in conjunction with the
above property, can be used to do this.
</P>
<DL>
<DD STYLE="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0.2in"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><B>pings.disablePingUsage.
</B>This property controls whether users are allowed to set up
automatic pings or send manual pings. If set to true, all
existing autoping configurations are removed (i.e. disabled),
the weblog <B>Preferences-&gt;Pings</B> page and associated
actions are disabled, preventing any use of the ping features by
regular users. <B>Note:</B> <I>Setting this to true will cause
the Roller server to </I>remove <I>any autopings that users have
configured when Roller is next started.</I> </FONT>
</DD></DL>
<P>
If both of the above properties are set to true, all ping
functionality is effectively disabled for regular users. The
<B>Global Admin:Ping Targets</B> page is still accessible (to
administrators); you can use that page to clear out any common
targets if you wish. No user (including administrators) will be
able to configure automatic pings or send pings. Ping queue
processing continues but the queue will always be empty; you can
safely disable ping queue processing (by setting the processing
interval to zero) in this situation.
</P>
<H2>10.6 - Initialization of common ping targets</H2>
<P>The initial set of common ping targets is determined by the
following configuration property.
</P>
<DL>
<DD STYLE="margin-left: 0.49in; margin-bottom: 0.2in"><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><B>pings.initialCommonTargets.
</B>This value is used to initialize the set of common ping
targets. The value consists of a comma-separated list of ping
targets, where each ping target is specified in the form </FONT>
</DD></DL>
<PRE STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in"> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt">{{name}{url}}</FONT></PRE>
<DL>
<DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">
<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt">This value is used every
time Roller starts <I>and finds an empty list of common ping
targets.</I> Normally, this is only the first time Roller is
started on a fresh or upgraded database; note, however, that if
you really want to maintain an empty list of common ping
targets, you will need to comment out this value or set it to an
empty string. </FONT>
</DD><DD STYLE="margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.2in">
<BR><BR>
</DD></DL>
<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always">
11 - Planet Roller administration
</H1>
<P>This page describes the new Planet Roller feature. This
feature is disabled by default. You can enable it by overriding
the <TT>planet.aggregator.enabled </TT>(the Installation Guide
for details).
</P>
<P>This new feature allows a you to add separately hosted blogs
to a Planet tab on the Roller front-page. Separately hosted blogs
can be running on any type of blog server, as long as it supports
RSS 0.93 or later and has item-level publication dates.
</P>
<H2>11.1 - Setting up the Planet aggregator</H2>
<P>Before you can configure and use the Planet aggregator, you
must set it up. (this material will be moved into the
installation guide in a future release). Here are the three
steps:</P>
<P><B>STEP1: Enable the Planet aggregator </B>
</P>
<P>Set <FONT FACE="Courier New">planet.aggregator.enabled=true</FONT>
in your Roller properties override file.</P>
<P>Enter a valid cache directory in the
<FONT FACE="Courier New">planet.aggregator.cache.dir</FONT>
property of your Roller properties override file. Make sure the
cache directory exists and is writable by the user who owns the
Roller process.</P>
<P><B>STEP 2: Setup the refresh-entries task</B></P>
<P>The RefreshEntriesTask is responsible for updating each of the
blogs in the Planet aggregator. You should set it up to run every
hour. There are two ways to do this. You can add it to the list
of hourly tasks run by Roller's built-in scheduler by adding the
following to your Roller properties override file:</P>
<P> <FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT SIZE=2># Comma separated
list of task classnames to be executed hourly</FONT></FONT></P>
<P>
<FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT SIZE=2>tasks.hourly=org.roller.presentation.planet.RefreshEntriesTask</FONT></FONT></P>
<P>However, some folks have found that the RefreshEntriesTask can
works best when run outside of Roller. If you want to do that
instead, you can use cron on UNIX or Windows Task scheduler to
run the task. For UNIX users, use the rollertask.sh script which
can be found in the Roller install directory under docs/examples.
You'll have to modify it to set your paths and your JDBC driver
jar.</P>
<P><B>STEP 3: Setup the sync-websites task</B></P>
<P>The SyncWebsitesTask ensures that every blog in the Roller
system is included in the Planet aggregator. It is intended to
run every night. Every time that it runs, it adds all new blogs
and removes all blogs that no longer exist. If you have a valid
technorati.license file your classpath, it will also rank the
blogs in the system using the Techorati system. To setup
sync-websites, add the following to your Roller propeties
override file.</P>
<P> <FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT SIZE=2># Daily Planet task:
syncs weblog list with Roller, refreshes Technorati stats</FONT></FONT></P>
<P> <FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT SIZE=2>tasks.daily=org.roller.presentation.planet.SyncWebsitesTask</FONT></FONT></P>
<P>As with the refresh-entries tasks, some have found that
sync-websites runs best outside of Roller. You can run it from
cron or Windows Task Scheduler too. And again, UNIX users can use
<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 10pt"><FONT FACE="Courier New">rollertask.sh</FONT></FONT>
to do this.</P>
<P><B>How do you get a Technorati license in your classpath? </B>You
can get an API key from the Technorati Developer Center. Place
the API key in a file (which no whitespace) named
<FONT FACE="Courier New">technorati.license</FONT> and place that
license in the <FONT FACE="Courier New">WEB-INF/classes</FONT>
directory of your Roller install.</P>
<H2><A NAME="section-AdministrationGuide_120-ConfiguringPlanetRoller"></A>
11.2 - Configuring Planet Roller</H2>
<P>If you've got Planet enabled, when you login as a global admin
you'll see a Planet Administration link on the Roller Main Menu
page. Click that link to view the <B>Planet Admin-&gt;Configuraiton</B>
page, shown below.</P>
<P><SPAN ID="Frame34" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.48in; height: 3.71in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_62ac32cd.png" NAME="graphics36" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
35: Planet config page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><A NAME="section-AdministrationGuide_120-ToConfigurePlanetRollerYouMust"></A>
<B>To configure Planet Roller, you must:</B></P>
<UL>
<LI><P>Ensure that your site has an absolute URL in the <B>Global
Admin-&gt;Configuration</B> page in the Site Settings section.
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P>If you are behind a proxy, you must enter proxy settings
in the <B>Planet Admin-&gt;Configuration</B> page.
</P>
</UL>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A NAME="section-AdministrationGuide_120-ThePlanetControlButtons"></A>
<B>The Planet Control buttons</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<P>The buttons at the bottom of the <B>Planet
Admin-&gt;Configuration</B> page can be used to kick off the
Planet Roller background tasks. Normally, these tasks will run on
a schedule and you will not have to touch these buttons. If you
are doing testing, you might need to use them to diagnose
problems -- so we've left them in the interface.
</P>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Refresh Entries</B>: this button will launch the
Refresh Entries task which updates every newsfeed in the system.
Normally this runs every hour. It can take several minutes to
complete and the only way to know that it is done is to watch
the log files (and have INFO level debugging turned on for the
<FONT FACE="Courier New">RefreshEntriesTask</FONT> class).
</P>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><P><B>Synchronize Websites</B>: this button will launch the
Synchronize Websites tasks which ensures that every Roller
website (i.e. blog) in the system is represented by a
subscription in Planet Roller. If any websites have been deleted
from the system, the the task will delete the corresponding
subscription.
</P>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="section-AdministrationGuide_120-AddingExternalSubscriptionsToPlanetRoller"></A>
11.3 - Adding external subscriptions to Planet Roller</H2>
<P>By default, Planet will include all of the blogs in the Roller
site. But the purpose of Planet is to allow externally hosted
blogs to be included on the front page.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>Adding and removing external
blogs</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<P>To add an externally hosted blog to the Planet, use the <B>Planet
Admin-&gt;Subscriptions</B> page. To add a blog, enter it's
title, newsfeed URL and website URL. Normally, you must enter all
three field, but if you have a Technorati license in your
classpath you might be able to enter only the website URL and let
Roller figure out the rest (by using Technorati).</P>
<P>You can select an existing subscription and edit it or delete
it. The change will not be evident on the front page until the
next scheduled Refresh Entries task runs.
</P>
<P>Note that Planet Roller only supports Atom and RSS newsfeeds
that include entry level date information. If you enter a
subscription that does not include dates, Planet Roller will
accept it, but you may not see entries from the feed because
Roller will assume that it's entries are one day old.</P>
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36: Planet subscriptions page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<H2><A NAME="section-AdministrationGuide_120-ThePlanetRollerMainPage"></A>
11.4 - The Planet Roller main page</H2>
<P>The Planet Roller main page is shown below.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><SPAN ID="Frame36" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.42in; height: 4.75in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m6732908.png" NAME="graphics37" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
37: Planet front page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A NAME="section-AdministrationGuide_120-RSSNewsfeed"></A>
<B>The planet newsfeeds</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Planet provides a newsfeed that
included posts from all blogs in the aggregator. You can get this
feed at the path /planetrss, so for example, for a default Roller
install the newsfeed URL would be:</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">
<FONT FACE="Courier New">http://localhost:8080/roller/planetrss</FONT></P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><A NAME="section-AdministrationGuide_120-TechnoratiRankings"></A>
<B>Technorati Rankings</B></P>
<P>Because we cannot get hit counts for the external blogs in the
system, Planet Roller displays Technorati Rankings for all blogs
in the system instead. This only works right if you have a valid
Technorati license in your classpath.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<H2 STYLE="page-break-before: always">11.5 - Adding custom groups
to Planet</H2>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">You can also add custom aggregation
groups to planet. Just use the <B>Planet AdminCustom Groups</B>
page, shown below.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><SPAN ID="Frame38" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 6.39in; height: 4.27in; border: none; padding: 0in; background: #ffffff">
<P STYLE="margin-top: 0.08in"><IMG SRC="roller-user-guide_html_m5327a1d1.png" NAME="graphics41" ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=100% BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2><I>Illustration
38: Planet custom groups page</I></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR>
</P>
<P>In the custom groups page shown above, you can see four custom
groups. Each of these groups has a set of subscriptions.
Currently, these custom groups are NOT displayed on the Planet
page. Someday we'd like to enable that, but for now they only way
to display those groups on the Planet page is to customize the
Java ServerPages (JSP) code that defines that page.</P>
<P>Custom groups aren't displayed on the Planet page, but they
are available in newsfeed form. So if you define groups named
&ldquo;mygroup1&rdquo; and &ldquo;mygroup2&rdquo; you'll find
that you have two new newsfeeds. For example:</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">
<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><FONT FACE="Courier New">http://localhost:8080/roller/planetrss?group=mygroup1</FONT></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">
<FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><FONT FACE="Courier New">http://localhost:8080/roller/planetrss?group=mygroup2</FONT></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">And that brings us to the end of
the Planet section and the end of the Roller user guide.</P>
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