# Status of more usable blog entry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [October 5, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-more-usable-blog-entry/116407 "2007-10-05T08:02:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mark\_DSAnderson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@Mark\_DSAnderson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mark_DSAnderson)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-more-usable-blog-entry/116407/1 "2007-10-05T08:02:11Z")
In looking at [http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Thirdparty\_Extensions](http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Thirdparty_Extensions) I see two wysiwyg extensions. The one for fckeditor says it isn’t done yet, and the one for tinymce returns a 503 for the links. So that means there isn’t anything at all? I want users to be able to specify: Title Keywords Image (simple upload of a single image file, that will get auto resize) Content (defaulting to wysiwyg, this excludes the content) Date I suppose I could do this with “parts”, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to say what the parts are, let alone dictate what the data type is (such as file upload for Image). -mda ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_DSAnderson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@Mark\_DSAnderson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mark_DSAnderson)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-more-usable-blog-entry/116407/2 "2007-10-05T15:13:46Z")
There is an extension/fork of Radiant called “admin\_parts” that may be of use to you. I also have one that I have yet to open-source that lets you constrict the names and filters of parts available to the page. Sean ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_DSAnderson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@Mark\_DSAnderson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mark_DSAnderson)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-more-usable-blog-entry/116407/3 "2007-10-06T00:44:51Z")
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:13:03 -0500, “Sean C.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) said: > There is an extension/fork of Radiant called “admin\_parts” that may be > of use to you. I also have one that I have yet to open-source that > lets you constrict the names and filters of parts available to the > page. What about the rest of my desires of having WYSIWYG (is there a working extension right now?), and of managing keywords (I can’t use the word “tag” in this context i guess), so that later I can do a query for all entries using a particular keyword. Thanks… -mda ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_DSAnderson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@Mark\_DSAnderson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mark_DSAnderson)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-more-usable-blog-entry/116407/4 "2007-10-06T02:23:06Z")
I got the FCKeditor working in Radiant very quickly, although it may not fit for all use-cases. There have also been efforts to use TinyMCE and a Textile-helper toolbar. However, these will not likely ever be part of the core software. Tags/keywords should be a simple thing to do, in fact I may need to do it for my current project. I will keep you informed. Sean ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_DSAnderson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@Mark\_DSAnderson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mark_DSAnderson)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/status-of-more-usable-blog-entry/116407/5 "2007-10-06T02:28:57Z")
> (I can’t use the word “tag” in this context i guess), so that > later I can do a query for all entries using a particular keyword. I’ve got a somewhat working tag cloud extension (beta) that I’ve been meaning to post for a number of weeks now but client distractions and hosting issues have delayed me in making them public. If anyone has a dying need to try them and doesn’t mind being a guinea pig drop me a line personally and I’ll package it up and email it to you in the interim. Next of the list is to try and find a way to wrap Radiant with an extension that gives it a Wordpress/MoveableType/Blogger XML-RPC API to interface with so you can use a client such as Ecto or ScribeFire to post. While it’s not the most ideal system for running a traditional blog, it’s the most extensible and usable of the other ruby based ones I’ve tried… and that extensibility just means you have to add whatever it is missing for you personally. Regards, Glenn