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Blog Module Questions
I've been trying to figure out the blog module. I'm understanding now that it has a very specific design.
I was hoping to see a lot more flexibility with it... here are some of the things I was trying to do on the front end (I like the CMS portion).
1) From the home page, I'd like to be able to show the most recent 5 (or so) posts (title & excerpt), linking of course to the full blog post.
2) Have multiple sections for different categories. (I see the CMS has this set up, but I can't figure out how to make it work: per-page).
3) Be able to format the content the way I need it formatted, as opposed to having rigid formatting. ie. without the right bar.
As it is I will create a blog module to be able to provide these tasks.
If I am mis-informed and these are able to be done simply, please let me know
Thanks!
I'm loving this CMS layout, it's something I would have created myself, had I not found it.
I was hoping to see a lot more flexibility with it... here are some of the things I was trying to do on the front end (I like the CMS portion).
1) From the home page, I'd like to be able to show the most recent 5 (or so) posts (title & excerpt), linking of course to the full blog post.
2) Have multiple sections for different categories. (I see the CMS has this set up, but I can't figure out how to make it work: per-page).
3) Be able to format the content the way I need it formatted, as opposed to having rigid formatting. ie. without the right bar.
As it is I will create a blog module to be able to provide these tasks.
If I am mis-informed and these are able to be done simply, please let me know
Thanks!
I'm loving this CMS layout, it's something I would have created myself, had I not found it.
Comments
2) Not sure I follow.
3) You're meaning presentation/layout formatting of the page display and not of the data right? Data you could do at the base_module_record level. There's a couple of examples in there like get_content_formatted and get_excerpt formatted.
The actual design of the layout with right side bars etc you can do anything you want to. You'll need to write/modify the views though.
ie. Videos at http://site.com/Videos/2012/03/26/My-Latest-Video-Review
or Reviews at http://site.com/Reviews/2012/03/25/Fantastic-Movie-Review
That kind of thing. So the "categories" would include of course Videos or Reviews.
I know I can get the same thing at //site.com/blog/categories/ but not quite what I was hoping.
Does that make more sense? (I hope)
Yeah that would be a bit tough. If you added blog in there:
http://site.com/blog/Videos/2012/03/26/My-Latest-Video-ReviewYou could at least isolate the routes to the blog modules blog::_remap() method. Certainly not out of the box or that simple to do.
As you say it would be easier if you were happy to introduce a new segment like 'section/videos'. That way you could essentially replicate the categories functionality. May as well just use categories then I suppose.