STE

^{13 Jul 2010 22:34. Edited 1 times. (Edit, Permalink)}
The main issue is that I needed a way of doing this that worked for people that don't have an API key. They're all creating pages as 'STEBot' on preview.wikidot.com — and that means that there needs to be a way to avoid conflicts… thus the randomly generated page number.

As it's a bit more difficult to suddenly change how I'm doing things just because someone is using their own key, I stuck with the same method for private sites as well. I only added the option to define a category later (was originally planning to just let users change the site name)

STE could generate a list of all pages in a specific category, so it's possible for me to add a "clean up" option that would give you a list of pages to manually delete. If deleting pages is ever added to the API - which I doubt it will be - STE would then do that itself.

^{14 Jul 2010 01:12. Edited 1 times. (Edit, Permalink)}

STE could generate a list of all pages in a specific category, so it's possible for me to add a "clean up" option that would give you a list of pages to manually delete. If deleting pages is ever added to the API - which I doubt it will be - STE would then do that itself.

Now that I've slept on this, I don't think it's really that big of a deal. Although 100 potential pages is a lot. How about reducing that number or let us pick the random number multiplier. For a single editor, I can't think of a reason you'd need to reserve more than a few pages for previews (only because you may want to have multiple preview pages open at once for some reason).

Instead of the list of pages, maybe a ListPages code block that we can place on our preview site with linked titles would be better.

^{12 Oct 2010 12:53. Edited 0 times. (Edit, Permalink)}
I'm thinking that I should remove the ability to preview documents if you don't have an API key. Currently, it uses STEBot to preview pages if you don't have an API key (or have one but don't enter it into STE!).

Whilst this means that many people won't be able to preview pages any more, it will mean that I can make it more consistent. i.e. For Import, Export and Preview you need an API key. If you don't have one, you can't use those features. Easy to understand.

And I can make preview only happen on one page. You give the page name you want to preview, and I'll drop support for previewing two different things at the same time.

Sound good?

^{12 Oct 2010 15:12. Edited 0 times. (Edit, Permalink)}

I should remove the ability to preview documents if you don't have an API key

I agree completely.

^{19 Oct 2010 06:14. Edited 0 times. (Edit, Permalink)}
For now, when I was updating this feature to work with the v2 API methods, I've added in a check to see if the page name has changed after saving. Essentially, this should mean it works with autonumbered categories now and you can have some control over what page names it creates (it will start at 1 and increase…)

I won't mark this as completed, because it still needs work. But thought I'd mention that here.