A couple of weeks ago, we published a new plugin for Graffiti called the Blogging Extension. What this plugin does is enhance Graffiti's built in blog features to enable some additional blogging scenarios.

What it adds:

• Trackbacks - trackbacks will be sent (automatically) and received.
• Geo RSS
• Comment RSS Feeds
• Pings - pings will now be sent out whenever a new post is made.

Jef Kazimer has a great write up on the extension.

GCMS has the great capability to be extensible via plug-ins, extensions, and widgets. The plugin architecture allows to add some new functionality for features that site owners may want to add to their site. The new Blog plug-in uses some of the new events in GCMS to add some features bloggers are going to love.

Want the source code?

There is a lot more we would like to add. In addition, we have also heard from the community that they would like a way to also contribute so we have decided to publish the full source code of the extension. This should not only make it easy for developers to add to the project, but also illustrate some of the things you can do with plugins. If you are interested in the source code, you can find it here: http://code.google.com/p/graffitiblogext/

Read the complete post at http://graffiticms.com/blog/gbe/