4.2. Where To Put Your Flavour Files

If you want to override the existing flavours, add new flavours, or develop your own flavours, you should set the flavourdir property of your config.py file. I have this directory parallel to my datadir. In my flavourdir, I have flavour directories--one for each flavour in my blog:

/home
 |-- willg/
    |-- myblog/
       |-- entries/        <-- my datadir
       |  |-- content/        <-- category
       |  |-- dev/            <-- category
       |  |-- links/          <-- category
       |
       |-- flavours/       <-- my flavourdir
          |-- html.flav/      <-- defines the html flavour
          |-- xml.flav/       <-- defines the xml flavour
          |-- links/          <-- parallels the links category
             |-- html.flav/   <-- defines the html flavour for the links category

In my flavourdir, I have two flavour directories html.flav and xml.flav. The xml.flav is a copy of the atom.flav directory that comes with PyBlosxom. I copied it so that I could use "xml" for the flavour name. This isn't necessarily a wonderful idea, but it helped me upgrade my blog without disturbing planets and writing lots of .htaccess redirects and such.

You'll notice there's an html.flav directory in the links directory. When someone is looking at items in the links directory, then PyBlosxom will use this html flavour.

The order of overiding works like this:

1. PyBlosxom looks for flavour files that came with PyBlosxom

2. PyBlosxom starts at the root of the flavourdir and looks for flavour files there. If there are some, then these files override the files PyBlosxom has found so far.

3. PyBlosxom iterates through category directories in the flavourdir if there are any that are parallel to the datadir and looks for flavour directories there. If there are some, then those files override the files it has so far.

This allows you to easily override specific templates in your blog (like the header or footer) depending on what category the user is looking at.

	backwards compatability
	PyBlosxom is backwards compatible with previous versions of PyBlosxom. You can put your flavour files in your datadir. You can also put your flavour files in the categories of your datadir. However you cannot have a flavourdir and put flavour files in your datadir--PyBlosxom will look at EITHER your datadir OR your flavourdir for flavour files.