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Can you please let the admin decide if the blog shall stay?
^ This ^

Because I think you misunderstood. If I delete the user or the user deletes them self and the user had not deleted their own blog... I would want the blog to stay.
 
Yes they can, you could create an account on http://xfaddons.com, create a blog entry (can't customize an empty blog), an on the right sidebar there will be a link for Customize

One of my members did a Starcraft theme on his blog
http://kibou.cemzoo.net/
Another one did a halloween theme
http://okita.cemzoo.net/

In both you can see the description it is right below the title of the blog
I do have a blog there with a blog post and see no such option

http://xfaddons.com/index.php?xfa-blog-entry/blogs.10/
 
Permission settings wrong on your site?
View attachment 35388
This is really weird.
I went ahead and even logged out and in with your account (temporary password change, now reverted), and I can see it in either Safari or Firefox

Screen Shot 2012-10-09 at 2.50.44 PM.webp

I suspect either weird permission cache by XenForo (try logging out and in again)
or a Browser issue. Thought that link is always shown ...

If all fails, you could try using one of the test accounts that I have on the site.
User: Huey
Pass: Huey
 
This is really weird.
I went ahead and even logged out and in with your account (temporary password change, now reverted), and I can see it in either Safari or Firefox

View attachment 35389

I suspect either weird permission cache by XenForo (try logging out and in again)
or a Browser issue. Thought that link is always shown ...

If all fails, you could try using one of the test accounts that I have on the site.
User: Huey
Pass: Huey
I found it, but it is not where I expected it to be or where most people would look for it.

You have it here
http://xfaddons.com/index.php?xfa-blogs/socially-uncensored.1360/

I was expecting it here
http://xfaddons.com/index.php?xfa-blog-entry/blogs.10/

My advise would be that you add the following buttons on blog post
  • customize blog
  • create entry
This would further encourage usage

edit: The end result is you should have it in both places ;)
 
I found it, but it is not where I expected it to be or where most people would look for it.

You have it here
http://xfaddons.com/index.php?xfa-blogs/socially-uncensored.1360/

I was expecting it here
http://xfaddons.com/index.php?xfa-blog-entry/blogs.10/

My advise would be that you add the following buttons on blog post
  • customize blog
  • create entry
This would further encourage usage

edit: The end result is you should have it in both places ;)

Glad you found it :)
 
this is confusing me
watch blog is above the blog - nice
watch blog entry is in the sidebar - why?
Maybe they both should be over the sidebar :)

I'll also take this opportunity to show off some of the cool features of the addon.

... subscription to blogs

There are subscriptions to blogs, and if you subscribe, you will get an alert when the user posts a new entry in his/her blog

Additionally, if you add somebody to your friend's list, it auto-subscribes you to his blog

But they are intentionally kept disconnected, so if you want to keep someone as your friend, but the subscription to his blog is not required, that is ok. The other way is ok, too, someone can subscribe to the blog without adding the person to his friend's list

... subscription to entries

You can subscribe to entries, which means you will get an alert every time somebody posts a new comment on the entry

But, it is smart enough as to just send you one alert, so if the entry has 40 comments while you were out, it only alerts you once (until you visit the entry, then you get another alert next time somebody comments). Really nice spam prevention.

There is a really cool read-functionality, when you click on the entry title, it takes you to the last unread comment, automatically, you don't start at the top of the entry (for that, you can always click on the date instead of the title)

Posting a comment on the entry auto-subscribes you to it. And, of course, anyone can unsubscribe anytime.
 
upgraded to latest release.. I now get database errors anytime I try to go to the blog homepage.
Either on your Server Logs on the AdminCp, or by checking the source code, you will have the detail about which database error you are getting on the homepage. Could you quote it here?

Or ping me a link, I'll give it a look

Did you first upload the files through ftp, then uploaded the updated xml file? The order is important, else it won't do the SQL modifications that the addon needs
 
I have a major issue with this addon. The RSS for Better Blogs does not validate in feedburner. I depend on Feedburner which is compatible with alot of RSS services. Could you please troubleshoot this addon in getting it validated with feedburner?

Original Feed Vailidity
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://www.8thos.com/blog/dre-sage.1/index.rss

Feedburner Feed Vailidity
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/DreSage

Both do not validate....

I wonder whether I should fix that, considering that the default XenForo feed does not validate either for the exact same reason
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://xenforo.com/community/forums/-/index.rss

If you want to fix that, open library/XfAddOns/Blogs/ViewPublic/Blog/Rss.php

And comment or delete the following:

Code:
                $entry->addAuthor(array(
                    'name' => $blogEntry['username'],
                    'uri' => XenForo_Link::buildPublicLink('canonical:members', $blogEntry)
                ));

Lines 87-90
 
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