Questions Regarding what Planet support and not

[Shervin Asgari]

I appreciate your answers. Could you please explain what the difference 
between an aggregator like Planet and for instance Wordpress is?
Kind Regards Shervin Asgari

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Shervin Asgari">
>
>  
>> Hello. I work in a company that is going to integrate a blog system 
>> for 50
>> or so web sites.  We have spent about one year researching what kind of
>> blog system we should go for.
>>
>> We have found Roller the best suited, but we would like to use another
>> Planet.
>>     
>
> Keep in mind that Planet is just an aggregator, not a blog hosting 
> system.
>
>  
>> Visual Layer
>> Strong desire: Full Design freedom, i.e with the help of Velocity
>>     
>
> Planet has extremely malleable templating through the htmltmpl engine 
> - you
> can produce almost any output based on it (every output you see from 
> rss to
> html is done this way).
>
>  
>> Operational Layer
>> Desire: Option to see the most ative bloggers
>> Desire: Multi Domain Support
>>     
>
> Those are more relevant to blog hosting systems than an aggregator.
>
>  
>> Desire: Navigation through a calendar
>>     
>
> Currently, Planet just operates as a single page aggregator, so you can't
> store or navigate old posts. This was an intentional design decision 
> early
> on in the project, but it's something I'd reconsider given the right 
> patch.
>
>  
>> Demand: Search in all blogs
>>     
>
> See above - no storage means no searching. This seems to be another 
> feature
> more suited to a blog hosting system than an aggregator (though I can see
> how it would be handy).
>
>  
>> Demand: Profile image of the blogger
>>     
>
> With Planet you can use the channel image provided in the rss feed or 
> define
> your own in the config file. You can see the results of this on many 
> popular
> Open Source project Planet sites with 'hackergotchi' images of the 
> authors.
>
>  
>> Demand: Different sort funtions on entries, i.e Last blogger, first 
>> blogger etc
>>     
>
> Don't quite understand that one.
>
>  
>> High desire: Option to sort on comment. i.e Last comment, most 
>> comment blogg the last X day, etc
>> High desire: Own Profile info on the blogger
>>     
>
> Sounds like features more suited to a blog hosting tool.
>
>  
>> Demand: Date and time information on the Planet
>>     
>
> You can use dates and times in any template (see the examples, 
> including the
> RSS templates).
>
>  
>> Demand: Number of comments
>>     
>
> Most RSS feeds provide a comment URL, but not the number of commments
> available, so this is very troublesome to do based on mere aggregation.
>
>  
>> Demand: Bloggers name
>>     
>
> Of course - either from the rss feed itself, or your own definition in 
> the
> config. ;-)
>
>  
>> Nice to have: Mobile integration
>>     
>
> You could create a template that outputs WML or something like that.
>
>
> Hopefully the clarification that Planet is a blog aggregator only 
> clears up
> some of your questions.
>
> - Jeff
>
>