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[dilbert]

One of my sites uses blogs instead of forums. They have no interest in using the forum features.

I didn't see how much the blog add on is, does XF have a built-in blog? I am trying to avoid add-ons.

Thanks

 

[Chris D]

XF 2.2 (currently in Beta) features a new "forum and thread type" system. One of the new forum/thread types is "articles".

You can read more about article forum/thread types here:

XF 2.2 - Article thread and forum updates and improvements

When we first announced support for article-type threads and forums, we noted that this was an initial foray and that revised styling was in the pipeline. Today, we can show you some of those revisions and the options that come with them. Revised article styling Firstly, we have some updates...

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XF 2.2 - Forum and thread types

Forums contain threads and threads contain posts. It's been the essential framework of forums on the Internet since the public migrated from usenet to the web. The structure is well known and well understood - though the origins of some of the terminology are lost in the mists of time. Who ever...

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How this relates to blogs is that we have a particular view called "Expanded" for article forums which gives the forum listing a blog-style view.



And the articles (the threads) themselves look similar to how blog posts look in a lot of platforms.

You should be able to trivially update phrases that use the word "article" to change them to the word "blog".

So that may work for you otherwise you'll have to find a third party blog add-on as we do not offer one ourselves. There are a number of different ones but we cannot officially recommend any as we don't have any direct experience with them.

 

[dilbert]

Thank you. Would the new system import current IPS blogs into the article system?

 

[Chris D]

Unfortunately it wouldn't.

That may be something we could add support for in the future (we'd import them as threads, and then you'd convert those forums to an article forum if desired) but for now it would require a custom importer to be written.