Using Quickpost Templates

Submitted by Matthew Smith on Sun, 2007-03-11 21:59
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Quickpost Templates are a means of laying out a formula for a post. Normally, Quickpost simply gives you a link with the title of the page being blogged as the text of the link. With a template, you can supply your own text for the link, or you can omit the title or specify a target for the page.

You write the template in HTML or XHTML, as you would when writing a blog entry, substituting placeholders for things which vary from entry to entry. Currently, the template system accepts two placeholders:

  • %url% - the web location of the page being blogged
  • %title% - its title

I plan to add more in the near future. Please note that QTM seeks out these specific sequences in your template: the % symbol, for example, can otherwise be used freely. The placeholders are case-sensitive: %url% will work, while %URL% or %Title% will not.

Currently, QTM provides Quickpost, and Quickpost templates, through the system tray icon, which requires Qt 4.2 to operate. To set up the templates, right-click the icon, move the mouse to "Quickpost templates" and then select "Configure ..." from the menu which will appear. The Title is what will appear in the menu; type the template itself into the box below, and click "Accept" to save any template. (The OK button also saves your template.)