Screenshot Tour
This is a quick screenshot tour of Rethoth’s interface.
Rethoth is incredibly easy to customise. If you haven’t done it already, check the Creating Custom Themes guide on how to do so.
A bare, completely default Rethoth blog. This is the first thing you’ll see when you browse to your new Rethoth installation.
Out of the box, Rethoth is clean and uncluttered. You’re more than welcome to add your own clutter in the form of plugins, theme elements and other customisations. It is entirely up to you.
When you’re ready to log in and check out Rethoth’s admin features, press Ctrl+Alt+a to bring down the login toolbar.
That’s right, the login form was sitting right there under your nose and you didn’t even realise it. No need to remember a special admin URL; you’ve got the admin interface at your fingertips no matter where you are on your blog.
All you have to do is hit Ctrl+Alt+a, enter your username and password, and you’ll be presented with Rethoth’s lovely context-sensitive admin toolbar, integrated right into whatever page you’re currently looking at:
Of course, you don’t have to use the keyboard shortcut to log in if you don’t want to. Keyboard shortcuts and fancy auto-expanding toolbars require JavaScript, and some people prefer to browse with JavaScript disabled. We’re cool with that, and so is Rethoth. You can always browse to http://yourblog.com/admin and log in.
Once you’re logged in, you can create blog posts and static pages, upload media and files to use in your posts, and browse through existing posts, pages, and comments.
Rethoth supports freeform tagging on blog posts to help you keep things organised and searchable. As you type a tag name,
Rethoth displays a list of existing tags matching what you’ve typed so far to help you find exactly the right tag.
Talking of shortcuts, users can also navigate to the next and previous pages simply by pressing n or p.
Readers can comment on your blog posts via a friendly comment form that supports both Textile and sanitised XHTML for formatting and allows users to preview their comments before posting so they don’t embarrass themselves with silly formatting mistakes. Rethoth automatically displays Gravatar avatars for commenters to make them easy to identify.
Rethoth provides simple, painless protection against automated comment spam without resorting to frustrating Captchas. And for those rare occasions when something unwanted does end up getting through, deleting a comment is as easy as clicking the convenient “Delete” icon that’s displayed next to each comment when you’re logged in as the administrator.
Rethoth provides RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds of recent blog posts and comments, as well as comment feeds for each individual post so you and your readers can easily follow interesting discussions and be notified of replies in a feed reader.
In addition to the RSS and Atom feeds, Rethoth’s main page and individual blog posts are marked up using the hAtom microformat.
As if that’s not enough, Rethoth also automatically generates an up-to-date sitemap that makes your blog posts and pages more easily indexable by search engines.
Speaking of search engines Rethoth uses the full power of Google search using a site-restricted query;
These are just screenshots. To truly appreciate how simple and awesome Rethoth is, visit one of the sites using Rethoth or install it yourself and play around!