h1.  Resolved - Enable wiki link feature to non-existing articles

bq. *finished on 17sep2013.*

bq.  *enabled the function to only work when saving a post and not on preview - 6sep2013*

bq.  *changed to inprogress on 5sep2013*

When using the double brackets around a title, if the title of the post does not exist, enable the system to automatically create a post with that title.  *done on 5sep2013*

The post body text will contain only a hashtag called draftstub and the power command for draft equals yes. *done on 5sep2013*

Then on the user profile page, show:

bq. -5sep2013 - still need to add this info to the user profile page.- - *completed on 17sep2013*


bq. %{color:blue}+Draft Blog Posts+% : 10 --- %{color:blue}+Stubs+% : 8

The 8 count for Stubs would come from the tag count for draftstub for the user.

The 8 would be a link that shows the posts with that hashtag. These are not private posts. But they do not appear on the front page.

Problem: If I make a mistake with the title text that's surrounded by the double bracket case, and I'm unaware of the mistake, a draft stub post is created, and I may not realize it until I click that link within the post or I view the number of draft stubs on my profile page. I would need to delete mistakes, I guess. And test to ensure the links work. *done on 5sep2013*

bq. *follow-up to above paragraph - 5sep2013* - the non-existent post is created during Preview. Should I change this so that during preview, the "non-existent" post is +not+ created, so that I can see that it's a non-existent post, but when the post is saved, then the new stub post is created? Tags are not created within the database during preview. -I may back out this feature,-  or +make it a config param.+ -[still need to config file param implement -6sep2013]- *17sep2013 i decided to not make this a config param. works fine with creation on save and not preview.]* 

bq. It was easy to implement, since I already had REST code in place for adding a blog and a microblog. The code makes a REST call to itself to add the blog stub in draft mode. But I think that I'll do this +after+ the blog post is +saved+  and not during the preview stage. And I think that I'll add this function as a config param too.

In a wiki like my Parula code that powers ToledoTalk.com, the link to a non-existent post is displayed in red, so that it's obvious. But in this new proposed system, the link does point to an existing post because the stub post is automatically created. *done on 5sep2013*

I think that I'll employ this feature as described above because I do not want to track and edit all posts that link to the non-existent or stub post and update the posts with the link to change the link color, etc., as I do with the wiki code in Parula. 

To function similar to Parula, I would need to maintain another database table of titles for non-existent or stub posts.

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