PlusKit makes all of your stuff better
PlusKit is a new type of RapidWeaver plugin. Traditionally plugins have added new pages styles (such as Sitemap or Blocks), PlusKit is a different
- It makes your Style better with powerful new tags (<bash>, and <markdown>)
- It can automatically convert your photos to 'lighbox' or 'FancyZoom' format (this is super-slick)
- It provides a powerful importing function
(@import(())), from any Styled Text you can import
another RW page
- A great use for this is if you want your Rapidflickr photos inside a sidebar, or perhaps you want an Accordian in a sidebar
- It provides a powerful automated backup system that will (optionally) insert your version notes in the file metadata to enable spotlight searching
- It provides a useful global find feature. Good for tracking down where things went
- Seamlessly integrate Google Docs & Spreadsheets
- Plus much more -- You might want to watch the screencast here to get a better sense.
Improve your Style
Improve your Backups
Find your Stuff
Google Docs & Spreadsheets
It is probably time for some documentation. StylePlus adds several new tags within StyleText and allows you to 'import' other pages from within RapidWeaver.
The tags are:
- markdown
- bash
The arguments you can pass are (default in bold)
- cache=default \| none \| always
- warning=true \| false
- timeout = 5 \| (some number of seconds)
- files=_FILES_ | (something else that you want to refer to remove files with)
- outputdir= (some local directory you want copied to the server)
Of course, there is also the @import ((some other page)) command. I've not worked on this much and it still doesn't cache
If you are just getting started you can ignore the arguments (or said another way you will know when you need them)
Markdown
First let's do a simple markdown example
<markdown>
*Hello from Markdown*
</markdown>
Yields
Hello from Markdown
You can read more about markdown Syntax by going to John Gruber's "Main Site" here
Bash
The next one to focus on is the 'Bash'. This is pretty cool since you know now execute arbitrary code when viewing a page. There are lots of uses for this but for now let's do something trivial
<bash>
echo -n "the current date is:"
date
</bash>
Yields
The current date is:Thu Jul 3 21:54:41 PDT 2008
Import
Finally let's talk briefly about the 'import' feature. This is pretty slick and allows you to include pages within pages
For instance:
@import((Home))
Yields (on my site anyway).
That's it for now... Don't worry there is more to come....
At that moment you are thinking OH #$#@ ... then you calm down and start thinking of how much money and time you just lost.
Why not save yourself that angst and get PlusKit with BackupPlus!
With SavePlus you can have backup (archive) copies automatically. Worried about Disk Space? no problem, you can automatically compress the backups.
You can also add version information to each backup and optionally include that version information in the finder comments (which, by the way, includes enables Spotlight searches based on your version information. Note that only the first 200 characters of the version information are included in SpotLight searches)
You can locate FindPlus in the 'Edit -> Find Plus'
To integrate a document look at the gdoc command.
To integrate a spreadsheet look at the gtable command -- as opposed to gdoc, gtable is a fairly complex command and usually takes a bit more work (due to the extra complexity of how to display tables)
There is also the gform command for doing forms and storing the results in your google spreadsheet (great for surveys)
This feature requires PHP support (so no .mac)
Important To use PlusKit you need to add one, and only one, "PlusKit" page. This page is used as a sort of 'control' center to turn options on or off
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