Plugins - blojsom 3.0 - Confluence

The following is a list of plugins broken down into various categories that are available with blojsom.

	Calendars, Dates, Times
Calendar Plugin	The Calendar Filter plugin handles the filtering of blog entries based on the URL parameters, "year", "month", and "day". The Velocity Calendar plugin handles the ability to render a visual calendar component for use in your templates.
	Entries
Chronological Plugin	The chronological plugin works by placing the entries in chronologic order (oldest first) instead of reverse chronologic order (most recent first).
Convert Line Breaks Plugin	Converts line breaks (\n) into <br /> tags in your blog entry descriptions.
Date Format Plugin	Allows the blog owner to configure the running blog's time zone as well as to provide a custom format when outputting dates for blog entries.
Days Since Posted Plugin	The days since posted plugin adds metadata to a blog entry indicating how many days have passed since the blog entry was posted.
Delicious Daily Posting Plugin	Takes your daily links from del.icio.us and posts them as an entry to your blog.
Enhanced Emoticons Plugin	The emoticons plugin expands emoticon references such as or to images like and . This enhanced plugin allows you to configure the available emoticons and their corresponding patterns in the emoticons plugin configuration.
Entries per Category Plugin	Allows you to display the number of entries per category.
Excerpt Plugin	Looks for a <div class="excerpt"></div> in your blog entry and replaces the description with a link to the excerpt and a link to view the full text of the entry.
Footnote Plugin	Allows you to automatically create footnotes within your blog entries that are automatically linked between the footnotes at the bottom of the entry and back to the location in the entry where the foonote occurred.
Hyperlink URL Plugin	Identifies identify any valid url in a blog entry and automatically convert it into a clickable hyperlink.
Language Selection Plugin	Adds a field when you add or edit a blog entry to attach language metadata to a blog entry.
Macro Expansion Plugin	Expands $macro$ references that it finds in your blog description and expands them into its full form.
Markdown Plugin	Uses the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool to allow you to use its syntax for writing blog entries.
Meta Plugin	Allows you to use a particular syntax for creating metadata for your blog entries. Metadata can be used to affect the display of the entry or affect how plugins operate on an entry.
Moblog Plugin	The Moblog plugin allows you to e-mail entries to your blog. It also understands e-mail attachments so that images or other files are linked into your entries in an appropriate way.
Nofollow Plugin	The NoFollow plugin adds support for the rel="nofollow" attribute on hyperlinks in comments and trackbacks.
Preview Plugin	The preview plugin allows you to hide "preview" entries from normal display.
Previous Entries Plugin	Allows you to display previous entries for a given permalink entry.
RSS Enclosure Plugin	The RSS enclosure plugin allows you to attach a file to your blog entry as an enclosure element that would be picked up by RSS enclosure-aware aggregators. This is useful for podcasting.
Show Me More Plugin	The "More ..." plugin will truncate long entries and add a hyperlink to the description so that the user can view the full text of the entry.
Technorati Tags Plugin	This plugin allows you to add Technorati tags to your blog entries. The Technorati tags link back to the proper Technorati tag page to show other Technorati-tracked posts from around the web with the same tag.
Textile Plugin	The Textile plugin uses a Java implementation of the amazing Textile Humane Web Text Generator allowing you to write entries that use the Textile syntax.
Twitter Notification Plugin	Sends an update to your Twitter account when you add or update entries on your blog.
Weblogs Ping Plugin	This plugin sends a ping to blog update notification services like weblogs.com, weblo.gs, and Technorati after new blog entries have been detected.
Wiki Plugin	The Wiki plugin uses the Radeox engine to allow you to write blog entries using the Radeox Wiki syntax.
Word Count Plugin	The Word Count plugin counts the number of words in an entry.
XSS Filter Plugin	Allows you to specify the tags allowed in certain content as well as whether links are allowed.
	Images and Photos
Galleryr Plugin	Retrieves information of photos/photosets stored in Flickr. This plugin is useful for creating a simple a photo gallery.
Gravatar Plugin	Attaches a Gravatar ID to each blog entry comment, which can then be used to display Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) image available from http://gravatar.com .
	Import and Export
Feed Import Plugin	This plugin allows you to import entries from a syndication feed into your blog. This is useful if you are migrating your blog from another software package to blojsom.
	Moderation
Akismet Moderation Plugin	Checks comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks against the Akistmet service.
GateKeeper Plugin	Fights comment spam by displaying a random question on the form which should be answered by the commenter. Questions can be configured from Blojsom context file, from the database, and from blog properties.
IP Spam Moderation Plugin	Checks the IP address for incoming comments or trackbacks against a user-defined whitelist and/or blacklist.
Link Spam Moderation Plugin	Checks for hyperlinks within comments and trackbacks. If the number of hyperlinks found within the response exceeds a specified threshold, the comment or trackback can be moderated or deleted automatically.
Open Proxy Moderation Plugin	Open proxy check plugin for comments and trackbacks.
SCode Plugin	Creates a CAPTCHA image of a random security code numbers which would be used to prevent comment spam.
Spam Phrase Moderation Plugin	The spam phrase moderation plugin checks for specific phrases within comments and trackbacks. If a phrase is found within the response, the comment or trackback can be moderated or deleted automatically.
Trackback Keyword Plugin	Checks the content of trackback URL for the existence of all or at least one of the specified keywords which will determine whether the trackback is a spam or not.
	Responses
Recent Comments Plugin	Loads a recent number of comments that you can display on your blog.
	Search
Google Highlight Plugin	The Google Highlight plugin will highlight words on your blog if the referrer came from a Google query.
Simple Search Plugin	The simple search plugin looks for a user's query in either the blog entry title or blog entry description.
XPath and XPath Search Plugins	The XPath and XPathSearch plugin allow you to search your blog using XPath queries.
	Security
Basic Authentication Plugin	Performs a BASIC authentication check so that you can designate your blog only be read by authorized users.
	Statistics
Blog Times Plugin	Generates a graph image summary of the blog entries' posting times with configurable colors and sizes.
Skip Filter Helper Plugin	Outputs information about the total number of pages of entries (based on the blog entries to display property) as well as the current page.
	Templates
Tag Cloud Plugin	Creates a "cloud" of the tags used on your blog. This "cloud" can be displayed in your template to allow visitors to search among entries based on a given tag.
Weather Plugin	This plugin retrieves weather forecasts for user blogs and makes the forcast details available to the page templates.
Widgets Plugin	Allows you to develop small widgets for display in your templates.
	Tools and Utilities
Array Tool Plugin	Makes the Velocity Array Tool available to your templates.
Collection Utilities Plugin	Adds an object to the context which is available from your templates with various methods for operating on collections of data.
Conditional GET Plugin	The Conditional GET plugin reduces the bandwidth you send out from your blog for the flavors for which it is enabled.
Date Tool Plugin	This plugin makes the Velocity Date Tool available to your templates.
Groovy Plugin	The Groovy plugin allows you to write blojsom plugins using Groovy.
Import Tool Plugin	This is a wrapper for the Velocity Import Tool where an object is added to the context so that you can retrieve URLs in your templates.
Ip To Country Plugin	Adds country information to each comment based on its IPv4 address. This plugin uses the data from IP-to-Country.
List and Extended List Tool Plugins	Makes the List and Extended List Velocity tools available in your templates so that you can manipulate and find out information more easily about arrays and lists.
Math Tool Plugin	This plugin makes the Velocity Math Tool available to your templates.
Parameter to Context Plugin	Puts all request parameters to context map. Each parameter name will be prefixed with a "param_" string in the context, and can conveniently be retrieved from the Velocity templates.
Render Tool Plugin	This plugin makes the Velocity Render Tool available to your templates.
Simple Obfuscation Plugin	This plugin will encode the characters of a string into their hex equivalent making it a very simple way to obfuscate data such as e-mail addresses that you do not want to expose to crawlers or e-mail spammers.
String Utilities Plugin	Adds an object to the context which is available from your templates with various methods for operating on string data.
	Users
IM Notification Plugin	Sends notification messages to Instant Messaging application upon the creation of new entry, comment, trackback, and pingback.
User Lookup Plugin	Allows you to lookup user information from a user ID.