geekgasm
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I have yet to use your addon. However, I've been following the development via notifications. I just wanted to thank you for sharing it with the community!
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[TaylorJ] Blogs 1.4.0
- Thread starter Taylor J
- Start date
We checked the new version, everything works with preview. Thank you!
infinitysnapz
New member
hi - i have found an issue involving how blog posts appear on sites like Discord and Twitter, etc
i did find a workaround - in the template
this does make me wonder though: i see this project is licensed under MIT - i think it would be really awesome to see this on a platform like GitHub to allow pull requests etc
i did find a workaround - in the template
taylorj_blogs_blog_post_view - the variable $bpSnippet was typo'ed as $fpSnippet - after replacing that in the template, it works like a charmthis does make me wonder though: i see this project is licensed under MIT - i think it would be really awesome to see this on a platform like GitHub to allow pull requests etc
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geekgasm
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Hi, @Taylor J. I hope you are doing well.
I have a suggestion and a possible bug.
Would it be possible to tweak the addon to display the OGP tags correctly? So, instead of the default "og:image," why not use the first image on the blog post? Perhaps use an attachment. For the "og:description," why not add an 'excerpt' to the blog under the title? Please keep your message to 200 characters or less so it displays correctly on sites like Facebook. You can (have the option to) hide it from people and use it under the hood for bots, such as the Facebook scraper.
By the way, could you please retain the original published date? Every time I edit a post, it updates the date to the current date. Perhaps add an optional "Updated date" next to the actual "Published date."
Once again, thank you so much for sharing this addon for free. Also, thank you for not including an annoying copyright message.
I have a suggestion and a possible bug.
Would it be possible to tweak the addon to display the OGP tags correctly? So, instead of the default "og:image," why not use the first image on the blog post? Perhaps use an attachment. For the "og:description," why not add an 'excerpt' to the blog under the title? Please keep your message to 200 characters or less so it displays correctly on sites like Facebook. You can (have the option to) hide it from people and use it under the hood for bots, such as the Facebook scraper.
By the way, could you please retain the original published date? Every time I edit a post, it updates the date to the current date. Perhaps add an optional "Updated date" next to the actual "Published date."
Once again, thank you so much for sharing this addon for free. Also, thank you for not including an annoying copyright message.
geekgasm
Active member
Also, if you update the latest blog posts widget (widget_taylorj_blogs_new_blog_posts) to include a quick sentence about the latest posts, maybe include a few links, etc. I think it looks much better.
Perhaps make it customizable in the options/settings. Again, thank you for sharing this addon with us!
Perhaps make it customizable in the options/settings. Again, thank you for sharing this addon with us!
Taylor J
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Taylor J updated [TaylorJ] Blogs with a new update entry:
1.4.0
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1.4.0
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geekgasm
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Thank you for the update, bro. I can't wait to try it out. I hope you feel better, man!
Taylor J
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GitHub - TaylorJonesTRT/XF-Blogs
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Taylor J
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For the conversion into threads, not as of right now but that has been on the planned feature list.
For changing the publication date as of right now there isn't an easy way to do it that would involve the front end, but you can edit the database entry for that blog manually. Best way is to just copy and paste the current value into an llm of your choice and then ask it to change it to reflect a certain date and time for you and then paste and override with that new value in your database.
It would be fantastic and I'm sure many users would also like that Blogs addon be compatible with this other one:
Taylor J
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It would be fantastic and I'm sure many users would also like that Blogs addon be compatible with this other one:
I'm still pretty much of the same stance as here in https://xenforo.com/community/threads/taylorj-blogs.224049/page-8#post-1703798
Blogs also adds a new content type and would require that addon to update/include work to handle it. I don't currently see myself having the time / wanting to fork their addon just to get it to work with mine.
Will most likely have a feature to change the publication time later on when XF 2.4 is released.
geekgasm
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Here is my brand-new Helldivers fansite: https://helldiversforum.com. You can see the blogs widget on the homepage. Noticed I changed the text to what I wanted. I also cleaned up the blogs' menu items and added FontAwesome icons. No code modifications needed, just language phrases.
