Blog Module

Introduction

The blog module allows you to post blogs on your SilverStripe. It includes the ability to post blogs using a site front-end form. Blogs are summarised on the blog holder page type, with more detail viewable when a specific blog is clicked.

Feature Overview

Front-end blog post form
Posts allow bbcode
RSS feed for blog and also feeds for comments on posts
Easily customizable
Tag cloud widget
Archive widget
Blog management widget
RSS widget (will likely move in future)

Page types

We have chosen to go with the following page types to include with the blog module:

BlogTree This is a holder of BlogHolder. If your site has only one blog holder, you won't need this page type.
BlogHolder The BlogHolder shows BlogEntries, and provides a way to search etc.It would also contain methods to post new blogs.
BlogEntry: This is simply an entry/post for the blog.

View Archived Blogs

Blog archives can be viewed by year/month by appending the year, followed by a forward slash, then the numerical month, to the end of the BlogHolder URL. Alternately, just the year can be appended to view entries for that year.

for example:

mysite/blog/2007/6 would show blog entries for June 2007
mysite/blog/2007 would show blog entries for 2007

Comments and Spam Protection

See PageComment.

Widgets

See Widgets.

Working with the theme

The blog comes set up to use the \themes\blackcandy_blog\ directory by default. See themes.

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