I figured out that using <% story id="..." %> you can easily make editable boxes in your template for linklists, desktop wallpapers, current readings etc. Here is little explanation in German. It only works because I'm using the story.display skin in a way it is not intended. A nicer solution would be an additional skin, say story.include.

It's just a new skin and tiny modifications in the skin manager (additional field) and the <% story %> macro (new default value for the skin). If you agree I can make the changes.

there is already a possibility to create "custom" skins, although not very handy and - until now - undocumented. try this:

eleph.antville.org

you will get an empty skin-form. fill it with what you want and then use

<% story id="1234" useskin="include" %>

the drawback is that this custom skin will not show up in the list of skins, but that shouldn't be that hard to fix. and of course you must create the skin before you can use it, because there's no fallback-mechanism.

nevertheless i'm +1 for your proposal.