Despite its multi-lingual user interface, on-line help and article management features, there are some components of SPIP which depend on its native language, French. The database schema, file names and template language are such components.
Even if you have no experience of French, you can still make use of all the features that SPIP offers. This glossary provides translations of the key terminology.
| French | English | Context |
|---|---|---|
| ecrire | to write | used as the name of the directory containing the private interface of the authoring system:
www.mysite.org/ecrire |
| article | article | these are the principal objects in SPIP. |
| boucle | loop | This is the main instruction in the SPIP language. See the syntax of the loops. |
| rubrique | section | articles are organised in a hierarchy of sections |
| secteur | sector | the sections in the first level or the hierarchy are called sectors |
| breves | news items | a means of publishing short news items alongside articles |
| sommaire | summary | this is the homepage of a SPIP site |
| mot | word | used as a SPIP tag in loops to indicate a keyword criterion |
| mot clé | keyword | provides a means of linking related articles across the site |
| groupe | group | used to group keywords |
| titre | title | title of an article or news item |
| surtitre | top title | an optional title of an article with more prominence than the title field |
| sous-titre | sub-title | optional sub-title field for articles |
| logo | logo | each article and section can have a dedicated logo |
| descriptif | description | the description of an article or section |
| chapo | standfirst, or introduction | introductory paragraph that summarises and leads into the the main article. |
| texte | text | a field with the main content of a section, an article or a news item |
| auteur | author | SPIP user who can write and possibly publish articles |
| document | document | any multimedia document that can be attached to an article, a section or a news item |
| administrateur | administrator | SPIP user who can create section, users and otherwise manage the site |
| recalculer | refresh | the act of updating the cache files from the database |
| balise | tags | Not to be confused with HTML tags, SPIP tags are used to insert database and calculated fields into a template. e.g. #TITRE would insert the article title. |
| par | by | used in the SPIP language to define the sort order of the results set. |
| hasard | random | used to return random results from the database |
| recherche | search | used to return results from the built-in search engine |
| oui | yes | used as a parameter in some tags |
| non | no | used as a parameter in some tags |
| Mise à jour | upgrade | the process of updating a SPIP installation to a newer version |
| parent | parent | used by selection criteria in the sections’ hierarchy |
| branche | branch | used by selection criteria in the sections’ hierarchy |
| #LESAUTEURS | Authors | tag used to return the authors |
The filters are also in French and a complete list is available in SPIP’s Filters
Short glossary of terms for brackets and inverted commas
| Name | Symbol |
|---|---|
| Square brackets | [ ... ] |
| Parentheses or Round brackets |
( ... ) |
| Braces or Curly brackets |
{ ... } |
| Double quotation marks or quotes |
" ... " |
| Single quotes | ' ... ' |
| Backticks or Backquotes | ... |