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The Blog Module


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Agent

Community Member, 2 Posts

27 April 2008 at 3:53pm

Edited: 27/04/2008 3:57pm

I am new to SilverStripe and I like the blog module but why does it only use bbcode? Why can I not write a blog post in full html using tinymce editor?

Also how about some categories for these blog posts?

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(deleted)

Community Member, 473 Posts

27 April 2008 at 4:31pm

If you're using the blog module available on SVN, you can use tinyMCE.

Simply add:

 BlogEntry::allow_wysiwyg_editing();

to mysite/_config.php

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

27 April 2008 at 6:17pm

Also how about some categories for these blog posts?

How do you mean categories?? you can tag a blog post then users will be able to browse by tag which you can use as categories for your posts.

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Agent

Community Member, 2 Posts

28 April 2008 at 1:08am

Excellent, thanks.

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brb5548

Community Member, 17 Posts

21 June 2008 at 3:10am

Edited: 21/06/2008 3:23am

I just downloaded the latest daily build from svn for the blog module so that I could use the above mentioned TinyMCE editor. Everything works fine and I have updated the mysite/_config.php file and I can make edits that show properly on the main blog page but when I try to view the "full post" all of the content in the blog posting are displayed with the html tags. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen?
Thanks!

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

21 June 2008 at 10:15am

Open up the blogEntry.ss file. - It will be in your current theme - /themes/blackcandy_blog/templates/Layout/BlogEntry.ss OR if its not in your current theme it will be in /blog/templates/Layout (The template parser looks for your custom theme, then defaults to the default file provided)

Then find the

<p>$ParsedContent</p>

and change that to just
<p>$Content</p>

I think its the Parsed Content method might be the issue

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brb5548

Community Member, 17 Posts

21 June 2008 at 11:39am

that fixed it... I changed $Content.Parse(BBCodeParser) to $Content
I should have caught that. Thanks for your help. Next time I am in Wellington I will have to buy you a beer... thanks again.

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amccarty

Community Member, 2 Posts

12 November 2008 at 7:47am

I'm using blog module for newsletters right now, and could really use some structured categorization on the postings. I realize this isn't in the spirit of blogging, but if an author could select from a predefined list of tags, a filter on specific postings could be much more effective (no more misspellings, typos, etc.). If others have solved this problem using an alternate solution, please let me know.

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