PivotX Documentation

Part 1: Using PivotX

  1. Welcome / About PivotX
  2. Getting the Files & Installing
  3. Setting up the first user
  4. Using PivotX in a glance
    1. Writing Entries and Pages
    2. Setting a different Theme
    3. Changing your preferences
    4. Advanced Settings
  5. Writing Entries and Pages in detail
  6. Managing Files and Images
  7. Working with Categories
  8. Adding and administering Users
  9. Weblogs in detail
    1. Working with Themes
    2. Changing the settings of a theme/weblog
    3. Working with comments and trackbacks
    4. Getting your feet wet with Templates
  10. Working with Extensions
  11. Blocking Spam
  12. Moblogging
  13. Metaweblog API (XML/RPC)

Part 2: Modifying Templates and Developing websites with PivotX

  1. How templates work
  2. Learning by example: Picking apart the 'bare bones' templates.
  3. The different templates, and what they do
    1. Templates for Weblogs / Entries
    2. Templates for Pages
    3. Special templates
  4. Template Tags
    1. Common tags, and how to use them
    2. Working with dates
  5. Examples in detail (Cases)
    1. Setting up multiple Weblogs
    2. Using Pivot as a CMS, without Weblogs
    3. Incorporating weblogs on other pages of your website
  6. Exporting your theme, and sharing it with the community

Part 3: Writing Extensions for PivotX

  1. How Extensions work, our philosophy
  2. The different types of extensions
  3. Writing Snippet Extensions
  4. Writing Hook Extensions
  5. Writing Admin Interface Extensions
  6. Writing Widget Extensions
  7. Accessing PivotX data
    1. Working with Paths / Files
    2. Grabbing RSS / XML / JSON over the interwebs
    3. Accessing / Modifying settings
    4. Accessing Users
    5. Accessing Weblogs / Categories / Entries
    6. Accessing Pages
    7. Other / Special Data
  8. Sharing your Extensions with the community
  9. Translations in Pivotx

Part 4: Updating, Upgrading and Converting

  1. Upgrading from Pivot 1.x
  2. Converting a Wordpress site to PivotX

Appendices

Appendix a: List of all Hidden Settings

Appendix b: All Template Tags

Appendix b-1: Tagcloud related Template Tags

Appendix c: Variables and objects accessible to Extension Developers

Appendix d: Date formatting options

Appendix e: Troubleshooting PivotX

Appendix f: Frequently Asked Questions

Appendix g: Coding Standards