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    Posted by JonnyG posts: 27

    I'm installing TikiWiki to support my Indian Guides nation. The Nation is formed of individual tribes, along with a council that is in charge. After spending yesterday reviewing TikiWiki, I'm thinking of the following structure:

    Home Page - nation welcome, events calendar (nation level events), and perhaps a nation blog controlled by the council members
    Tribal Page - each tribe will have a wiki page, events calendar (tribal level events), tribal gallery, and tribal blog

    Before getting too far down the road, I wanted to ask if people here thought that was a decent structure and had any suggestions?

    Also, what is the best way to put a blog at the bottom of each of the Wiki pages?

    You can see a sample of what I've been playing around with at http://www.greisz.com/tatanka2

    Thanks,
    Jon

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4664 Japan

    I think it might be difficult to combine a wiki page and blog in one page. TikiWiki uses different template files for wiki pages and blogs, and normally uses one or the other at a time. So maybe either a wiki page or a blog will have to be chosen for the nation welcome page. The wiki page can have a link to the blog, of course. Or, to start with a blog, blog headings (the information that appears at the top of the page above the posts) can be edited on a per-blog basis, so this could be modified for each nation's page. But it has to be edited via the admin blog page and you can't use wiki syntax in it, as far as I know.

    Maybe other people have more ideas on this.

    -- Gary


    Posted by Tom Jarvis posts: 215

    I have a wiki page where I add the last post from a blog to the bottom of the page. I don't know if this was the best way to do it, but I created an RSS for the blog and then used the RSS plugin to display the last post. I follow that with a link to blog.

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{RSS(id=>1,max=>1,date=>1,author=>0,desc=>1)}{RSS}
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