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<h1>Reblog Users' Guide</h1> |
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<p>$Revision: 1.2 $</p> |
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<div id="toc"> |
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2> |
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<a href="#overview">Overview</a> |
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<a href="#features">Use/Features</a> |
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<a href="#feed-list">View Feeds</a> |
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<a href="#add-feed">Add Feeds</a> |
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<a href="#item-list">View Items</a> |
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<a href="#post-item">Post Item</a> |
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<a href="#published-feed">Published Feed</a> |
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<a href="#keyboard-help">Keyboard Sensitivity</a> |
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<a href="#license">License</a> |
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<h2><a name="overview"></a>Overview</h2> |
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Reblog is a PHP-based server-side RSS aggregator/reader that |
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allows for quick, easy, iterative filtering, editing and |
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re-syndicating of posts. Its output is an RSS feed that |
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contains numerous metadata necessary to re-publish posts |
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with appropriate attribution. |
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Reblog is derived from a project called Feed-on-Feeds by |
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Steve Minutillo |
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(<a href="http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/">minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/</a>). |
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<h2><a name="features"></a>Use/Features</h2> |
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The operation of Reblog should be pretty |
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self-explanatory. Like most other news/feed readers, |
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it has a page to view all your feeds, a page to add |
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feeds, a page to view posts for one or more feeds, |
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and a viewing mode that uses frames, for easier |
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switching between feeds. We hope that these |
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functions are self-explanatory. |
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<h3><a name="feed-list"></a>View feeds</h3> |
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Default view in Reblog; Accessed from "Feed |
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List" link in header on other pages. |
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<a href="img/feed-list.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/feed-list-thumb.png" width="300" height="255"></a> |
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Update feed items or unsubscribe from a feed by |
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clicking "Subscribe" tab in each feed row: |
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<a href="img/feed-edit-subscribe.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/feed-edit-subscribe-thumb.png" width="300" height="63"></a> |
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Auto-publish all future items in a feed by |
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clicking "Publish" tab: |
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<a href="img/feed-edit-publish.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/feed-edit-publish-thumb.png" width="300" height="56"></a> |
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Add tags to a feed for easier navigation by |
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clicking "Tags" tab: |
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<a href="img/feed-edit-tag.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/feed-edit-tag-thumb.png" width="300" height="72"></a> |
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<h3><a name="add-feed"></a>Add feeds</h3> |
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Accessed from "Add Feeds" link in header. |
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Subscribe to individual new feeds, or enter |
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lists of feeds from OPML listings. "Reblog |
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Subscribe" bookmarklet makes this a |
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two-click operation from most websites that |
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offer feeds. |
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<a href="img/add-feed.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/add-feed-thumb.png" width="300" height="255"></a> |
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<h3><a name="item-list"></a>View items</h3> |
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Accessed from "Item List" link in header, or |
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by clicking on the title of a feed. Items |
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can be chosen from a single feed, or based |
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on other criteria such as tag matches or |
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searches. Simply clicking "Item List" |
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results in a |
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<a href="http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/riverOfNews" target="_blank">"River |
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of News"-style aggregator.</a> |
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Each item in the list can be archived by |
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clicking the large <strong>"A"</strong> |
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button on the left, or published by clicking |
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the large <strong>"P"</strong> button next |
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to it. Archived items no longer show up in |
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the list and are eventually culled from the |
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database entirely (depending on your |
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configuration settings), while published |
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items appear in your <a |
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href="#published-feed">outgoing published |
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feed</a>. |
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The list of items can be modified by |
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performing searches, selected tagged items, |
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choosing only new or published items, and |
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moving forward and backward through the |
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links under "Current Items". |
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<a href="img/item-list.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/item-list-thumb.png" width="300" height="255"></a> |
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Edit item content by clicking "Edit" tab. |
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Selecting a link for use in the published |
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item can also be accomplished by clicking on |
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the blue stars within the regular item view. |
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<a href="img/item-edit-content.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/item-edit-content-thumb.png" width="300" height="191"></a> |
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Add comments or tags to an item by clicking |
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"Comment/Tag" tab: |
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<a href="img/item-edit-comment.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/item-edit-comment-thumb.png" width="300" height="140"></a> |
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<h3><a name="post-item"></a>Post Item</h3> |
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Accessed from "Post New" link in header. |
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Posted items are automatically published. A |
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list of these items can be accessed from the |
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top-most feed in the <a href="#feed-list">feed |
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list</a>. "Reblog Post" bookmarklet makes it easy |
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to include content from around the web, like |
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popular social bookmarking services. |
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<a href="img/post-item.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/post-item-thumb.png" width="300" height="255"></a> |
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<h3><a name="published-feed"></a>Published Feed</h3> |
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All published items can be accessed via the |
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"Published Feed" link in the header. The URL |
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of this page can be freely-shared - it is |
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not subject to Reblog's own password |
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protection, so that outgoing feeds can be |
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subscribed to by others. |
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<a href="img/published-feed.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/published-feed-thumb.png" width="300" height="255"></a> |
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<h3><a name="keyboard-help"></a>Keyboard sensitivity:</h3> |
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Reblog is now almost entirely controllable |
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using keyboard shortcuts. Type <em>?</em> on |
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any screen to see what keyboard |
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functionality is available. If you hate it, |
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it can be disabled with a configuration flag |
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in the config file (see <a href="../INSTALL.html">INSTALL.html</a>). |
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<a href="img/keyboard-help.png" target="_blank"><img src="img/keyboard-help-thumb.png" width="300" height="255"></a> |
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<h2><a name="license"></a>License</h2> |
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Reblog is distributed under the GPL (see the <a href="../LICENSE">LICENSE</a> file), though some of its included libraries (in<code>library/</code>) are not. |
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