There's a new page of documentation for Weblog II pages. This one describes all of the templates used by the HTML-version of the Weblog II page (no RSS stuff in here). It doesn't touch on the calendar templates, which will probably be relegated to an appendix or something.

Choosing Templates for Your Weblog

An upcoming section will talk about editing templates, this doesn't cover that topic.

Your comments are welcome, appreciated, even solicited. As with previous docs, I'd like to know:

• Is it approachable, and useful?
• Is it too technical, or seem like it was written for "someone else?"
• Does it explain what you want to know about templates, and what you think new users will want to know?
• Do the example screen-shots help? Should there be more, and where/what should they be?
• Does it leave any holes? Is there anything you wish it explained, but didn't?
• Is anything over-explained?

Hey, it's been awfully quiet around here lately. Maybe this will get things moving again.

Weblog II has a bunch of bug fixes and changes today that you should all know about:

• IMPORTANT: the template type for weblog item templates has changed. If you have any custom weblog item templates, you'll have to edit the template in the template editor, choose "Weblog Item" from the popup menu, and then submit the template. The weblog page will continue to work even if you don't make that change, but your template won't show up in the template lists in the Structure Editor or in the weblog's /edit page.
• When changing the Weblog Day template or Weblog Item template for just one day (via the weblog's /edit page) on the weblog, the cache is flushed and it no longer throws an error about "msgNum not defined."
• When changing the weblog item template for a single item on the weblog (via the weblog's /edit page), the cache is flushed and it no longer throws an error about "msgNum not defined." (This is similar to the previous fix, but is specific to one item rather than all of the items for a day.)
• On the /edit page, the [Default] template choices now specify what the default template is for that picker, similar to how the template picker works in the structure editor. For example: "[Default: Weblog Item Full READONLY]"
• On the /edit page, there is now a disabled separator between the default item and the other template choices.
• On the /edit page, a minor change to the help links. Parens removed around the ?, and the ? link is now bold.
• A new Weblog Day template is available, called "Weblog Day Minimal READONLY." It's pretty minimal, but I'm not sure if it's minimal enough considering the name. It just wraps the #weblog.day.items macro in a div. (No macro for the current date or anything.) Comments are welcome.

This is just a utility message. I need a couple of short messages on the news page, for a screen shot.

Yet another short message I'm only posting for use in a screen shot.