PyBlosxom allows you to extend and augment its base functionality using PyBlosxom plugins. Plugins allow you to create additional variables; provide additional entry parsers, renderers, post-formatters, and pre-formatters; create new output data types; pull information from other non-blog sources; create images; and a variety of other things.
There are two properties in your config.py file that affect the behavior for loading plugins.
The first one is the plugin_dirs property which is a list of
strings specifying all the directories you might have plugins. For example:
This will cause PyBlosxom to look in this specific directory for plugins.
The other property is the load_plugins property. If you don't
have this set at all (i.e. it's either not in the config.py
file or the line is commented out), PyBlosxom will load all plugins it finds
in the plugin directories you've specified and load them. It will look in
each directory in order as you've specified. It will load the plugins in
each directory in alphabetical order by filename.
The other way to load plugins is by specifying the plugins explicitly by
setting the load_plugins property. PyBlosxom will load
only the plugins you've specified and will load them in the order you've
specified. The load_plugins property takes a list of strings.
For example:
This will load the plugins whose filenames are calendar.py, category.py, and booklist.py. It will only load those plugins even if other plugins are in the directory and it will load them in that order.