Better Blogs [Deleted]

[DRE]

Add the widget that you wish from

Appearance -> Add Widget
And in the "Position" use xfa_blog_home

Thanks I was using xfa_blog_index instead of xfa_blog_home no wonder.

 

[DRE]

Can you add pagination for all blogs on the home page?

How about a Sort by Most Entries and Sort by Category?

 

[DRE]

Being able to combine Better Blogs with Showcase using BD Widget has surpassed my expectations.

My best idea yet.

 

[DRE]

It it possible to use a hook widget with bd widget that only shows in the xfa_blog_home template?

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

It it possible to use a hook widget with bd widget that only shows in the xfa_blog_home template?

Question would be ... which hook?

I just tried setting up the widget with the hook hookage_container_content_top, and sure enough, the sidebar is showing on all pages at the top.

Now, if you wanted, say, to show it on page_container_content_top but only on xfa_blog_home, that is not a feature currently supported by BD Widget.

There is nothing though that prevents you from going to the template, adding your custom hook, and then using it.

 

[DRE]

Question would be ... which hook?

I just tried setting up the widget with the hook hookage_container_content_top, and sure enough, the sidebar is showing on all pages at the top.

Now, if you wanted, say, to show it on page_container_content_top but only on xfa_blog_home, that is not a feature currently supported by BD Widget.

There is nothing though that prevents you from going to the template, adding your custom hook, and then using it.

This hook:

 hook:page_container_breadcrumb_top

Would like to put a customized recent showcase items widget there.

Is there a tutorial on creating hooks or does that require an addon?

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

This hook:

 hook:page_container_breadcrumb_top

Would like to put a customized recent showcase items widget there.

Is there a tutorial on creating hooks or does that require an addon?

In this particular case....

1) Open the template xfa_blog_PAGE_CONTAINER_normal
2) Look for this line

<xen:hook name="page_container_breadcrumb_top">

3) Just below, "create" a new hook by adding the following

<xen:hook name="dre_my_hook_1">

4) Ready. On the widget configuration you can use it

 

[Mouth]

Being able to combine Better Blogs with Showcase using BD Widget has surpassed my expectations.

My best idea yet.

How?

 

[DRE]

How do I configure the amount of members shown in the "Most Entries" block?

 

[DRE]

How?

I turned Showcase into "Featured Blogs" and put it inside Better Blogs. Special Featured Blogs (Showcase) will go on Better Blogs Home Page as both a sidebar and a Showcase Image widget above the blogs listing using the tip that Rigel previously posted. I'm halfway done at the moment. There's some other stuff I'm adding to it too. http://www.8thos.com/blogs/

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

How do I configure the amount of members shown in the "Most Entries" block?

It's driven off the Blogs to Show setting

 

[DRE]

It's driven off the Blogs to Show setting
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It's not. I tried it and it only increased the other widgets. I'm talking about this one in bd widget.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

It's not. I tried it and it only increased the other widgets. I'm talking about this one in bd widget.

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The value is shared between the regular widget, the BD and the XenPorta one
That said, I tried that and most likely you are observing the cache, either disable it (0) or set it lower. The results are cached, so if you change for say, 5 to 10, the other 5 blogs would not appear until the cache has expired.

 

[DRE]

The value is shared between the regular widget, the BD and the XenPorta one
That said, I tried that and most likely you are observing the cache, either disable it (0) or set it lower. The results are cached, so if you change for say, 5 to 10, the other 5 blogs would not appear until the cache has expired.

Oh okay. I won't be able to configure it then because it will just make the other sidebar blocks go to the same number as well. Can you at least consider add Sort by Most Entries with a paginated results?

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Oh okay. I won't be able to configure it then because it will just make the other sidebar blocks go to the same number as well. Can you at least consider add Sort by Most Entries with a paginated results?

It looks like you need more granular configuration than a single setting that will change all the blocks.
When you say paginated results.. do you mean just for the panel ? that would be tricky.

 

[DRE]

It looks like you need more granular configuration than a single setting that will change all the blocks.
When you say paginated results.. do you mean just for the panel ? that would be tricky.

You know how regular forum threads, XI Blogs, the Resource Manager, Showcase, XFR User Albums, XFArcade is paginated on the home page of those addons right? That's what I meant. We can't view all the blogs on the site from the forum home, not even from say... the sidebar. The home page paginated is more needed than the sidebar which is what I was asking about.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

You know how regular forum threads, XI Blogs, the Resource Manager, Showcase, XFR User Albums, XFArcade is paginated on the home page of those addons right? That's what I meant. We can't view all the blogs on the site from the forum home, not even from say... the sidebar. The home page paginated is more needed than the sidebar which is what I was asking about.

That makes sense.
I can't promise a date, but I'll add it into the backlog.

 

[DRE]

That makes sense.
I can't promise a date, but I'll add it into the backlog.

Thanks!!!

 

[DRE]

How come blogs vanity urls only show up for some users and not for all of them?

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

They don't load for any for me, are you sure the multisite is on?

• http://illest.8thos.com/
• http://dre-sage.8thos.com/
• http://vicky.8thos.com/

Either way, there is a cron job called "XFA - Blogs - Customized subdomains" that runs hourly. If the person just registered run that manually, as the key for his subdomain might not have been generated. The subdomain is most of the times the username but since there are restriction for the url it is normalized against non-ascii characters.