Wanted - Bloxsom tutorial

inman has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have downloaded and installed the Blosxom weblog toolkit as a starting point for adding a blog to a couple of sites that I look after. The toolkit looks as though it does just what I want but I can't find much in the way of a tutorial as to how to put the various plugins together to create a fully functional blog. The work that I have done to date has been through a combination of trial and error associated with debuging the blosxom.cgi.

Does anyone know of any worked examples / tutorials available for blosxom? In addition to the Blosxom documentation, I am using this tutorial from the University of Oregon.

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Re: Wanted - Bloxsom tutorial by tachyon (Chancellor) on Nov 11, 2004 at 09:40 UTC
Have you considered their FAQ and other site docs. If so have you considered MovableType which is very well supported and also in Perl. cheers tachyon	[reply]
Re^2: Wanted - Bloxsom tutorial by inman (Curate) on Nov 11, 2004 at 15:29 UTC
I have looked at their FAQ and the documentation on the Bloxsom site. This was how I managed to install and configure the software. The purpose of the original post was to ask whether any monks knew of a tutorial that I could use to get started before returning to the documentation for reference. I was kind of hoping that somebody had written a tutorial or article that introduces the concepts etc.	[reply]
Re: Wanted - Bloxsom tutorial by howie (Sexton) on Nov 11, 2004 at 12:49 UTC
It also depends on what you consider a 'fully functional blog' to be. Out of the box, you have categorised articles, RSS feeds and a way to restyle the whole thing from templates. That's pretty functional.	[reply]
Re: Wanted - Bloxsom tutorial by johnnywang (Priest) on Nov 11, 2004 at 23:44 UTC
I found blosxom very charming, pratically no setup, and it let me use my own editor to write whatever I want. I consider it a model of a beautiful framework: simple and extensible. I tried some standard plugins from the site, and wrote a few for myself. I think the best way is to read the blosxom.cgi script itself, and look at a few examples of the plugins. It's relatively straightforward.	[reply]