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46 lines
1.6 KiB
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# Blog Module
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## Introduction
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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.
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## Feature Overview
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- Front-end blog post form
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- Posts allow bbcode
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- RSS feed for blog and also feeds for comments on posts
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- Easily customizable
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- Tag cloud widget
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- Archive widget
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- Blog management widget
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- RSS widget (will likely move in future)
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## Page types
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We have chosen to go with the following page types to include with the blog module:
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- **BlogTree** This is a holder of BlogHolder. If your site has only one blog holder, you won't need this page type.
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- **BlogHolder** The BlogHolder shows BlogEntries, and provides a way to search etc.It would also contain methods to post new blogs.
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- BlogEntry: This is simply an entry/post for the blog.
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## View Archived Blogs
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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.
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for example:
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- `mysite/blog/2007/6` would show blog entries for June 2007
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- `mysite/blog/2007` would show blog entries for 2007
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## Comments and Spam Protection
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See [PageComment](http://doc.silverstripe.org/pagecomment).
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## Widgets
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See [Widgets](http://doc.silverstripe.org/widgets).
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## Working with the theme
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The blog comes set up to use the `\themes\blackcandy_blog\` directory by default. See [themes](http://doc.silverstripe.org/themes).
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