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EE2: migrate from "weblog" to "section"?

April 16, 2008 11:26pm

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  • #1 / Apr 16, 2008 11:26pm

    Dan Halbert

    93 posts

    I’ve been looking at EE for some time to use for a non-profit site. I’ve experimented with Core; I get it and I really like it.

    But there’s one thing I dread, which is explaining to the other less technical authors and administrators that the term weblog is historical and misleading: EE says zucchini but they really mean vegetable.

    Clearly it’s an issue, if the top of the first tutorial has to explain what “weblog” really means in red type. And I often see people writing about EE say something like “weblog/section” or something just to make it clear.

    With the transition to EE2, is there any thought of gently deprecating “weblog” in favor of “section”? I know I can change it in the control panel, but perhaps “section” could be the new default. And {exp:section:foo} could be an alias for {exp:weblog:foo}.

    Well, probably not. Just askin’. This is not going to stop me from picking EE, but it would make it easier.

    (I’d post this in Feature Requests if I could.)

  • #2 / Apr 16, 2008 11:31pm

    Lisa Wess

    20502 posts

    Hi, Dan - welcome to the forums!  You can already rename weblog to section - or any word you want, though that doesn’t change {exp:weblog:entries} tags, etc. Just the nomenclature in the control panel. 

    I can safely tell you that weblog will not be the word used in EE 2.0, this was mentioned at the SXSW Live Preview as well.

  • #3 / Apr 17, 2008 12:32am

    Dan Halbert

    93 posts

    Thanks! I am really pleased about that, and about all the other 2.0 changes mentioned in that thread and the related threads (now I know where to look). Now I am really looking forward to 2.0!

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