Submitted by Squark
This package lets you create a fully functional blog with tag cloud, browsing blog posts by date, navigation between next and previous posts, comments, ratings and social bookmarking widget.
Pages:
Real life example
How to use
- Create a page called blog:_start, this will be your main blog page. Copy the content from the file _start listed above.
- Create a page called blog:_template and copy the content from the file _template listed above.
- Edit your side menu (nav:side) and add the code from the file nav listed above.
- Don't forget to enable comments (if you want, also for anonymous users and ratings) in your Site Manager
Blog:_start is the start page of your blog. Create a link to this page from your front page or just set blog:_start as your front page in Site Manager if you're planning to use your Site mostly for blogging.
Tip: If you want, change the width and height of the TagCloud so it fits in your sidebar.
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I've used this for my blog at http://www.ipocracy.com.
Portfolio
Hi,
am trying to create a blog using the example given above and am getting the following msg in the blog:_template page. Can someone please guide me as to where I could be going wrong. Thanks!
[[div style="overflow: hidden"]] [[div style="overflow: hidden; float: left; clear: left"]] [[module PreviousPage by="date"]] Previous: %%linked_title%% [[style="overflow: hidden; float: right"] [[module NextPage by="date"]] Next: %%linked_title%% [[[##gray|created: %%date|%e %B %Y, %H:%M%% ## TAGS: %%tags%% %%content%% [[div style="float: right;"
Sorry, no match for the embedded content.
[Rate this post: [[module Rate] ++ Comments: %%comments%% [[module Comments hide="true" title=""]] ——
Can you please post the link to the page in question? It's easier to view the source code and find the problem that way.
Shane Smith
Web Developer and Wikidot Community Administrator
Links: Blog, Wikimated, Editor (STE), Documentation
http://engage.wikidot.com/blog:_start
if you'll click First Post, you will come to the page with the posted error msg.
Thanks again! :)
The problem is on this page: http://engage.wikidot.com/blog:_template and it's just appearing on the first post because the first post uses that template.
Try replacing this (what you have now):
[[div style="overflow: hidden"]] [[div style="overflow: hidden; float: left; clear: left"]] [[module PreviousPage by="date"]] **Previous: %%linked_title%%** [[/module]] [[/div]] [[div style="overflow: hidden; float: right"]] [[module NextPage by="date"]] **Next: %%linked_title%%** [[/module]] [[/div]] [[/div]] ##gray|created: %%date|%e %B %Y, %H:%M%% ## TAGS: %%tags%% %%content%% [[div style="float: right;"]] [[embed]] Bookmark and Share [[/embed]] [[/div]] **Rate this post:** [[module Rate]] ++ **Comments:** %%comments%% [[module Comments hide="true" title=""]] ----
With this (modules and div blocks put onto their own lines, and ==== added at the end):
Shane Smith
Web Developer and Wikidot Community Administrator
Links: Blog, Wikimated, Editor (STE), Documentation
I think the problem is that you tried to copy and paste the code, instead of using the Installer that is linked in the sidebar. You're doing it the hard way ;-)
Shane Smith
Web Developer and Wikidot Community Administrator
Links: Blog, Wikimated, Editor (STE), Documentation
Got it!!!
Can't thank you enough.. just getting a hang of wikidot..
Thanks again!!! Really appreciat it. :)
In the _start ListPages, you've put the blog title as plain text while the comments are a H3. I don't know if that was deliberate but on my blog it looked very strange, until I changed the title to a H2.
Portfolio
My bad. I forgot to avoid theme-dependent elements. I have uploaded the correct version.
I think theme-dependent elements are needed, otherwise the blog looks nasty. We need to figure out how to do this properly for packages.
Portfolio
Maybe it would be better to put such elements in DIVs with the same class as e.g. H2/H3 and add style with defined px width and font-weight? We could avoid strange sizes, font-weights and text-transforms keeping colors, font-family etc. consistent with the theme the user have.
This sounds worth trying.
Portfolio
… besides the per-page forum, of course.
Yes, a forum would be good. I've stopped using the separate forum module in all my projects because it's not properly wiki (no tags, no uploads, etc.) but we're working on a new forum package that would emulate this to some extent using category templates. In the meantime, maybe I'll install the chatter package? That was more or less meant as a simple forum.
Portfolio
Why do I get - The ListPages module does not work recursively on the blog:_start page? The page refers to tagTarget as blog_start - is that why?
My Bad, I hadn't named the template name correctly.
The thing works beautifully.
Thanks!
I don't know how to enable posting to the blog.
This statement: "Don't forget to enable comments (if you want, also for anonymous users and ratings) in your Site Manager" leaves me a bit confused. Can you give me some quick help on getting this to work?
Thanks
Meaning: in your site admin, go to Forum, and click Enable Forum.
Portfolio
Hi, i make the all the steps. How can i post nem messages? Tanks!
create a page called blog:the_title_of_your_post
All the files uses Unix line-termination (\n). They should use MS termination (\r\n) for the millions of people who don't know what I'm talking about.
(The upshot is, if you download it on Windows you get the whole file on one line with little squares where the new-lines should be.)
See: http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-249444/problems-with-squark-s-blog-template
In addition _template downloads as "_template.htm", whereas the others download as .txt
I must be daft… how do I use the installer? The manual way didn't work…
I also get the "The ListPages module does not work recursively." error…
*edit* This message only appears on the pages blog:_start and blog:_template. I have given these two a tag "hidden" and excluded all messages with that tag in the Listpages arguments. Now these pages don't show up in the message list. I just need to find a way to exclude that tag from the cumulus cloud…
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