The Pivot Documentation Project

Welcome to the home of Pivot documentation, the Pivot Documentation Project (PDP). This document is not available for download as changes are contsantly being made to it. Many sections of this document are still in need of work and most of them can be identified by the this tag: They can be easily found by clicking here.

If you would like to submit content for inclusion in this document please send it to docs [at] pivotlog [dot] net as changes to the PDP can only be made by members of the Pivot or PDP Teams. If you would like to become a member of the PDP Team please send your request to admin [at] pivotlog [dot] net with a brief description of your planned contributions to the project.

1. What is Pivot?
2. System Requirements
3. Getting Started
4. Frequently Asked Questions

1. Automated
   1. Pivot Setup
   2. System specific packaging
2. Manual
   1. Getting the Files
   2. Uploading Files
   3. Setting up the first user

1. The Overview
2. Writing Entries
   • Using Tags
   • Using Snippets
3. Using Images
4. My Info

1. Weblogs & Categories
2. Setting up Users
3. Setting up Categories
4. Setting up Weblogs
5. Changing the Templates
6. Adding Templates
7. Working with Comments
8. Working with Archives
9. Working with Search Results
10. Working with Snippets
11. Working with Tags
12. Visitor Registration

1. Configuration
2. Rebuilding Files
3. IP Blocks
4. File Explorer
5. Adding Trackback

1. Template Tags
2. Date Formatting
3. Formatting Tags
4. Your Friend phpinfo
5. Dealing with safe_mode
6. Dealing with open_basedir
7. Servers with register_globals
8. Servers with magic_quotes
9. Using Apache's mod_rewrite
10. Upgrading from Older Pivots
11. Converting from other Weblog Tools / Importing
12. Converting to other Weblog Tools / Exporting
13. Blocked Phrases
14. Database Problems

1. About Pivot
2. Credits
3. About the GPL
4. Licences of used libraries
5. Changelog

1. Source code documentation
2. Coding Guidelines
3. Contributing Code
4. The Pivot SVN
5. Mantis Bug Tracker

1. What are they?
2. Available Extensions

1. General Info
2. Translating New Languages
3. Changing Language File Entries

1. General Info
2. Template Usage
3. Download Templates

1. General Info
2. Download Themes

1. Moblog Functionality
2. Trackback Functionality
3. MetaWeblog Functionality
4. Using BBClone with Pivot
5. Making a Pure XML Atom Feed
6. Miscellaneous Tips and Tricks
7. Advanced Configuration

1. Forum Etiquette
2. Creating an Account
3. Search for Answers
4. Abuse

1. Contributing Code
2. Helping Others
3. Sponsor/Donation Program
4. Advertise with Pivot
5. Special Thanks