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[Alpha1]

Without context, the comment does not mean that much, that is why it includes the entry in which the comment was published.

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That image looks very nice, because it does not have real content. Once you enter real data in it, it looks very different. Blog titles tend to be long, which causes the title to need 2 lines. If you take away the 'In entry' bit then the blog title will be displayed normally. The context is not needed. If you click on new posts, then every thread title does not have 'In thread:' before the title either, because people understand that the title leads to a thread. The same applies here.

That is by design. Else it could really destroy your layout. Imagine an image as BBCode, or other more advance BBCode like media, or tabs, or a table.

You are right. I did not think about this. But it does not look good to see the bbcode in the text. Could you see if bbcode can be stripped from the snippet?

There is no read more since you just click on the title of the entry. The link actually scrolls to the exact comment.

The text 'read more...' calls to action. Its the same for blog home page. The user can click on the title there as well. In this case you have found it usewful to add a 'Read more...' there.

You can use the "Entries" widget for that, ordering by publish date to accomplish that. It will give you the newest entries.

Thanks!

That is because the blogs can have a title. Once users really start using the blog most likely they will give it a title. At that point you need the author's name since otherwise you loose that information.

I see. On my big board virtually no one uses this function. I think I have seen it twice in the last 6 years since I added blog to my site. And in both cases the blog title was much too long. It would be nice to be able to turn that off.

It only lists the time because there is a date blob on the left to the title.

Please consider to add a setting to let us change this. I think it looks weird to separate date and time. Date and time belongs together.

Thank you for looking into these matters.

 

[CallieJo]

Do you plan on having an importer for Wordpress and IP.Blogs?

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Do you plan on having an importer for Wordpress and IP.Blogs?

No, there are no plans for either of those importers

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Bugs:

1. vbulletin blog category import still does not work correctly. The categories widget lists a different number than the category contains and the category itself shows a different number of blogs than it should. For example: one of my categories has over 200 entries in vbulletin. After import the categories widget shows 2 entries. The category shows 1 entry.

Do you think you could do the following for me?

mysqldump -u <YOUR_USER> -p YOUR_VBULLETIN_DATABASE blog_category > blog_category.sql
mysqldump -u <YOUR_USER> -p YOUR_VBULLETIN_DATABASE blog_categorypermission > blog_categorypermission.sql
mysqldump -u <YOUR_USER> -p YOUR_VBULLETIN_DATABASE blog_categoryuser > blog_categoryuser.sql

I have been playing with this for hours and I totally can't replicate the issue. I already setup vBulletin locally created a lot of sample categories, tested the import a dozen times ... I can't reproduce your issue.

If you could send your categories data my way via dropbox or at kentaurus dot cemzoo.com that would be incredibly helpful. I am at the point that it just "works for me", and you seem to be so far the only one with such a complicated setup, so I need further data to try to fix it.

 

[Alpha1]

I have sent it by email. Please mind the table prefixes.

 

[Nigel Lew]

Hi folks. Awesome stuff and very easy to use.

I may be lost in translation here but I still have 2 routes to resolve.

Sooo.... this is good to go..

http://www.hitchingit.com/blogs/

http://www.hitchingit.com/xfa-blogs/walkoflife.50/ tad stumped on this one because I gather I cant duplicate a route

http://www.hitchingit.com/xfa-blog-entry/my-banter.2/ same here.

I think my question is, how to I make these urls /blog /blog/username /blog/username/blogpost

hope that makes some sense and thanks again. I have been in xenforo for about 3 days and I am loving this stuff.

Nigel

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Hi folks. Awesome stuff and very easy to use.

I may be lost in translation here but I still have 2 routes to resolve.

Sooo.... this is good to go..

http://www.hitchingit.com/blogs/

http://www.hitchingit.com/xfa-blogs/walkoflife.50/ tad stumped on this one because I gather I cant duplicate a route

http://www.hitchingit.com/xfa-blog-entry/my-banter.2/ same here.

I think my question is, how to I make these urls /blog /blog/username /blog/username/blogpost

hope that makes some sense and thanks again. I have been in xenforo for about 3 days and I am loving this stuff.

Nigel

You could potentially rewrite
xfa-blog-home -> blogs
xfa-blogs -> blog
xfa-blog-entry -> entry

Then it would be

http://www.hitchingit.com/blogs/ (Home Page)
http://www.hitchingit.com/blog/walkoflife.50/ (A user blog)
http://www.hitchingit.com/entry/my-banter.2/ An entry

Some people prefer it a little more verbose

xfa-blog-home -> blogs
xfa-blogs -> blog/user
xfa-blog-entry -> blog/entry

Then it would be

http://www.hitchingit.com/blogs/ (Home Page)
http://www.hitchingit.com/blog/user/walkoflife.50/ (A user blog)
http://www.hitchingit.com/blog/entry/my-banter.2/ An entry

 

[Nigel Lew]

Got it. Thanks!

Nigel

 

[Nigel Lew]

Actually, stuff started hurling 404's am I missing something?

thanks again for your help.
Nigel

 

[Nigel Lew]

Here is a screen of my route page.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Here is a screen of my route page.

I believe you can't have blogs/ and then use it later. Changing the xfa-blog-home to blogs/home would do the trick

 

[Nigel Lew]

Curiously that breaks the blog tab so http://www.hitchingit.com/blogs/home/ is now dead as well.

N.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

You seem to be using "Route Changer" which is an old add-on for XenForo 1.1
There is another section called "Route Filters" below, which is the one you probably should be using

 

[Nigel Lew]

heh. Ok I will give that whirl. Sorry. I am entirely new to this stuff but I literally hammered that out in a day without issue. I just ported that stuff from phpbb which is a vertible train wreck.

N.

 

[Nigel Lew]

That is awesome. Works like a champ. Thanks so much for the help. I will go leave a review for ya.

N.

 

[garry420]

do you offer discount coupons ?
is there any scope of discounts coming in near future?
is installation charges included in it ? or i will have to hire someone ?

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

do you offer discount coupons ?
is there any scope of discounts coming in near future?
is installation charges included in it ? or i will have to hire someone ?

There are no discount coupons.

Installation charge is not included, however, it should be straightforward, the same way any XenForo add-on is installed.
Try installing the free version first, that should give you an overview of what the installation will be like.

 

[Chris Shortreed]

Is there a way to install this VIA cli, the web importer will suck for how big our blogs are.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Is there a way to install this VIA cli, the web importer will suck for how big our blogs are.

You cannot install via Cli, but there is an importer that runs via Cli.

 

[Chris Shortreed]

You cannot install via Cli, but there is an importer that runs via Cli.

Where is the importer that runs via CLI I see in extra's there is install_blog_cli.php