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Blogs

A blog can be written by one person only or a group of several persons.

The most recent article is displayed at the top of the page and older news blobs are gradually being pushed down. After a certain period, e.g. a month, a number of news blobs is 'archived', leaving more space for new articles.

The author's name is displayed with every article, next to the date and title of the article. Below the article there is usually a possibility for commenting on a article and the number of comments is shown directly below the article.

Then there is usually also a 'permalink' which is a link that points to the article directly rather than the entire page of article. These permalinks can be used by others to reference the article directly or bookmark it. There can also be a 'trackback' link that points to other blog article that references the article.

Questions

Blog Settings

How do I fast change the name of my blog? 

  •  add an "Edit"/"Settings" clue on the right of Blog Title
    • "Edit">"Inline form"
    • contains Blog Title, Blog Description, nr of displayed pages

Display in Dashboard/WebHome, Blog Post different then Wiki Pages 

 One XWiki page  
My first blog post
Another page  
Current page  
Page structure  
My second blog post
Blog Analysis  

Do we show a tag cloud? 

  • Guillaume: we could do that in a panel

Do we show category cloud? 

  • Guillaume: I think a categories panel already exists
  • Blog Categories Panel 

Can I change my blog's theme? appearence? to be different from the current skin? 

  • Guillaume: right now there's no specific UI for this. You can go to the administration panel of the Blog space and change presentation settings there though.

Can I change just an article's theme? 

  • Guillaume: right now, no.

Will we integrate statistics for the blog? nr. of posts, visitors, comments? categories, tags? 

  • Guillaume: XWiki statistics interface is a bit poor right now (one of your next jobs ;-). However statistics about the blog will definitely be recorded when stats are activated. The statistics part should be thought about XWiki-wide, don't worry about it specifically for the blog. It will be addressed later.

Can we have related blogs on multiple spaces? 

  • Guillaume: what exactly do you mean? Probably not in the short term.

Comment Moderation

Blog Settings

  • Date Header Format

Posts

 

"Create new post" should be up, always in the same place, regarding the increasing posts that take it down in page

Do we display tags for the posts? 

  • Guillaume: right now tags are being displayed only in the Information tab at the bottom of the page. This could be improved.

Will I have WYSIWYG editor active? 

Will I have a special options where I can say that I want to have <html> code integrated?

  • Guillaume: when using the wiki editor, the user can input html using the {{html}} macro. The wiki editor is currently being improved with a toolbar. It will be made available in inline mode soon. The new WYSIWYG editor also has a built-in feature to insert html content. There's a JIRA issue open to make the new WYSWYG usable in inline mode (inline mode is used when editing blog posts content)

Can I post with code content? <code> tags in the content? 

  • Guillaume: see above answer. The html macro is required to input html code. The new WYSIWYG editor will let the user switch between wiki & WYSIWYG to add wiki markup.

Do we show related posts? 

  • Guillaume: this would require additional underlying logic code. Not in the short term.

Can we have featured posts? 

  • posts that are highlighted than others, usually 2 posts displayed like in a magazine

Comments

 Do we special represent the comment of the holder of the blog? or the author? 

  • this could be done quering the rights - the one that have delete/edit rights can be special represented than the readers? they will be representing the "editors"
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