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buzzworkers · Mar 27th 2009 10:36

Just updated to the latest version !
i was thinking about spam and comments, so i'm again speaking about having Disqus comment system tied into podhawk, the good stuff is that they have their own way of preventing spam + facebook connect commenting, that means alot of juice for your podcast !

ps: i can do french translation if wanted !

petercarter · Mar 27th 2009 10:58

I have done an experiment with the Disqus commenting system. It is very simple to implement in PodHawk. It replaces the whole of the built-in commenting system. The only problem is that you cannot retrofit - if you have previously been using the LoudBlog or PodHawk commenting system, there is no way of transferring the existing comments to Disquus. But on a new website, there is of course no problem. I will do an article in the PodHawk wiki soon about implementing Disqus.

Thanks for the offer of help with the French translation. I will contact you privately about this, if I may.

buzzworkers · Mar 27th 2009 12:17

Yeah great ! Disqus is going to rock !

speaking for me, i'm going to use my old loudblog has an archive
and going to select the best tracks and liveset to put only in the new
podhawk install, (by the way my comments where turned off by default )

for the french/portuguese translation contact me here : ben_AT_buzzworkers.com

thanks a lot !

petercarter · Mar 28th 2009 09:46

I have written an article in the PodHawk wiki about using Disqus in PodHawk. The PodHawk website now uses Disqus for comments on new posts, so you can see how Disqus feels. It integrates very nicely with the Cleaker template - I have not tried the others.

petercarter · Apr 22nd 2009 13:06

PodHawk 1.3 is now available for download. Includes proper support for the JW Player, and for Disqus commenting.

petercarter · Jun 29th 2009 02:28

PodHawk 1.4 is now available. I have completely rewritten the web-page templates so that they are in modular form, and can be edited more easily. Guidance on template editing is here. The templates now come with language files, initially English and German. Other languages can easily be added by simple amendment of one of the existing files. There are three new web-page themes. And I have fixed a number of minor bugs which users have been kind enough to tell me about.

Kilian · Jul 20th 2009 22:58

Here are my questions for switching from loudblog to podhawk:

I can live with having to recode my own templates, but how about the database? Any chance I can convert that or export via xml and reimport that into podhawk? I have tons of comments on my past episodes which I just don't want to loose.

What about the rss/xml feed? Where does it reside in podhawk? Do I have to set up a redirect to the new location? Is there a way to import the old loublog xml feed into podhawk so that I don't have to recreate all the past episodes (54 of them)?

And just as importantly, once I switched to podhawk, will the xml feed be different thusly having all the users losing the backlog, resp. will they have to re-download all of them?

These are my main concerns for switching.

petercarter · Jul 21st 2009 04:33

When you convert from LoudBlog to PodHawk, all the information in your database is preserved. The convert.php programme adds a number of new tables/columns to the database, but leaves everything which is already there untouched. (Best to back up your database and your audio folder before you start, though, in case of accidents!)

You can keep your existing rss/xml feed. Strictly, static feeds are not needed in PodHawk, because Smarty caches web pages and the rss feed, but the static feed facility is retained in PodHawk for backwards compatibility with LoudBlog. The static rss/xml feed will have the same address (www.mysite.com/audio/rss.xml) as in LoudBlog. I have not implemented separate static feeds for individual categories in PodHawk, but if you need these, let me know and I will tell you how to do it.

Basically, if you convert from LoudBlog to PodHawk, your listeners/viewers will not notice any difference - your web address will be the same, as will the address of your rss feed. The content of the feed will be the same (except that it will say "generated by PodHawk" instead of "generated by LoudBlog"!). The web page may look different - it depends on how closely you want to match your old web page in PodHawk.

PS There is a very annoying error on the SourceForge page for downloading PodHawk. The "download" button will download PodHawk 1.1, not 1.4. To get the latest PodHawk version, click "View all files" to find the PodHawk1.4 zip and tar packages. SourceForge are aware of the problem, but have not yet fixed it.

PPS I think this has now been resolved!

Kilian · Aug 9th 2009 22:53

Thanks a lot for the info. Now that sounds quite good, so I might just take the plunge and see how far I get.

I'll try to move my loudblog site in the next week(s) over to podhawk, I'll give you some feedback on how it went, once I'm done.

Last edited by Kilian (Aug 9th 2009 22:54)

petercarter · Nov 20th 2009 03:24

PodHawk 1.5 is now available from the PodHawk website.

petercarter · Dec 30th 2009 00:18

PodHawk 1.52 is now available from the PodHawk website

petercarter · Mar 21st 2010 01:19

PodHawk 1.6 is now available - see the PodHawk website. It requires php5. If you have php4, install PodHawk 1.53.

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