Better Blogs [Deleted]

[Adam Howard]

@Rigel Kentaurus

Would also take it as a personal favour if you applied this fix in your template
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/soft-responsive-paid.37010/page-20#post-461598

The code is "OK", but the order in which you have it causes that "error" with a few styles (not just that one).

The fix does not better or worsen the default style either, so its harmless, but useful.

 

[Alpha1]

For the Home Page, this is how it is looking so far
https://cemzoo.net/

That is a blogs installation on my own site

It would be nice to display an image in the snippet. Please add settings to turn off the avatar display and the large date display.

 

[Alpha1]

The categories are created on the entry creation screen. Select "Create Entry" in your blog. You will be able to add a new category. Once you have at least one a Sidebar will appear on the blog.

I have imported hundreds of vbulletin 3 blogs which had over 200 global categories and tags. But the categories and tags do not seem to be imported. Please advise.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

I have imported hundreds of vbulletin 3 blogs which had over 200 global categories and tags. But the categories and tags do not seem to be imported. Please advise.

Tags are not imported, since there is no tagging functionality
Is this global categories, or user categories ?

 

[Alpha1]

Tags are not imported, since there is no tagging functionality
Is this global categories, or user categories ?

Global categories.
Are there any options to add tags? Is this feature planned? Or does XenTags support better blogs?

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Global categories.
Are there any options to add tags? Is this feature planned? Or does XenTags support better blogs?

Before you, I had no one asking for tags, and I don't have a use for them myself, so it's not even in the roadmap.
Let me take a look at the global categories situation for the importer ...

 

[Alpha1]

Before you, I had no one asking for tags, and I don't have a use for them myself, so it's not even in the roadmap.

Tags are the 5th most popular feature request for XenForo: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/thread-tagging.374/ 64 likes and 120+ replies.
Xentags is naturally quite popular functionality. It has 1325 downloads.
Ragtek asking for blog tags:

Does this also support other content types from add-ons (e.g. gallery images, blogs, etc..) or only threads?

Most vbulletin boards have tags. Those with vbulletin suite or vbulletin blog will have tags and will be interested in Better Blogs to replace vbblog.
I would be surprised if tags would not be wanted.

Let me take a look at the global categories situation for the importer ...

Thanks!

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

I have imported hundreds of vbulletin 3 blogs which had over 200 global categories and tags. But the categories and tags do not seem to be imported. Please advise.

The importer basically has no support for Global Categories, when it finds a Global Category (userid = 0), it just continues and ignores that category in particular.

I'll be working on an upgrade to the importer to handle that scenario, I hope to have that by the weekend.

 

[Nudaii]

Is there a way to style the sidebar independently of the default xenforo sidebar?

Also is there a way to disable comments on a single blog? but allow comments on rest

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Is there a way to style the sidebar independently of the default xenforo sidebar?

Also is there a way to disable comments on a single blog? but allow comments on rest

You should be able to style the sidebar different with some CSS
For example ..

.xfa_blog_entry .sidebar, .xfa_blog_home .sidebar
{
   background-color: #F00;
}

That will change the sidebar to a red background. You could add that style in EXTRA.css or directly on any of the blog templates


Currently there is no way to disable comments in a single blog or entry

 

[Nudaii]

thanks Rigel

 

[Live Free]

Is there a mass/user-based deletion option?

Say I have 20 blogs by 20 users with 10000 spam blog posts... any easy way to delete them?

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

Is there a mass/user-based deletion option?

Say I have 20 blogs by 20 users with 10000 spam blog posts... any easy way to delete them?

Directly from the database only
Or, if you wait for the weekend, I already have the spam integration ready

 

[Live Free]

Directly from the database only
Or, if you wait for the weekend, I already have the spam integration ready

Cool, I look forward to seeing it. I only ask because I have a lot of spam blogs coming from vBulletin and there's no way to mass delete. Going to go ahead and buy and try a test import. I'm upgrading this Saturday.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

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Rigel Kentaurus updated Better Blogs [1.2 compatible] with a new update entry:
1.0.16 New Home Page, Spam cleaner, and Responsive Layout

Bug fixes

• Admins could not edit entries (even when granted permission)
• Restored the snippet text for the entries on the homepage

New Features

• New Home Page ! It has been reorganized. The home page now has text snippets, and a different layout
  
• Integration with Spam cleaner, you can use Spam Cleaner options to remove text or entries
  
• Blogs now support Responsive Layout on the normal view, the sidebar and menu items will follow the default responsive rules

Other changes

• Better Blogs no longer uses a custom Page Container, this would improve compatibility with other XenForo styles, since it will just inherit the default container from that style

Blogs multisite

• From this release on, the Multisite feature of the blog has been removed, and it is now a separate package. All existing customers that bought better blogs before 8/14 have been given access to the package in the downloads area at XfAddOns.com
  
• If you specify a separate domain for your blogs (e.g. mydomain.com vs. myblogs.com), the root of the new domain will be the Blogs Home
• If you specify a separate domain for your blogs, the navigation link will be generated to point to the domain

 

[Alpha1]

How do I get access to the update? I have registered an account on your website and have accessed your site through the e-junkie link. I do not see a members area on your website.

 

[ekine]

Does "Better Blogs" has an import feature for IP.Blog?

 

[Robert F Schmitz]

I see something that I would consider to be an issue. When viewing recent blogs on your demo site, there is a button to "be the first to comment" and so I clicked it. It then tells me that I need to be logged in to do that and provides a login button.

My concern though is that I am not a registered member and nowhere does this invote me to Register only Login.

 

[masterchief]

I updated to version 1.0.16 .. there is no feature to select the new homepage format...

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

How do I get access to the update? I have registered an account on your website and have accessed your site through the e-junkie link. I do not see a members area on your website.

I added your account to the usergroup that can view the private forum - http://xfaddons.com/index.php?forums/better-blogs.10/