[TaylorJ] Blogs 1.3.1

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Taylor J updated [TaylorJ] Blogs with a new update entry:

1.3.1



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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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Taylor J updated [TaylorJ] Blogs with a new update entry:

1.3.1



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We checked the new version, everything works with preview. Thank you!

 

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If you need the FontAwesome blog navigation menu icon, you can add

{icon:fas::blog}

to the "nav.taylorjBlogs" phrase.

 

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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 taylorj_blogs_blog_post_view - the variable $bpSnippet was typo'ed as $fpSnippet - after replacing that in the template, it works like a charm
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

 

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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.

 

[Taylor J]

Will take a look into the above posts sometime this week

 

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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!