Blog is used to publish articles and snippets of information, while allowing visitors to comment on them. The control panel for the blog function is built in to the building tool You may find it easier to add a blog function to a otherwise blank unpublished page and use that page to edit your blog or to add new posts and moderate the comments you can also moderate the comments from the comments tab in the main menu.
From the building tool you can set the following blog parameters
Post display
Headers only Just the title of the post
Headers and truncated post body The title and the first part of the post to the end of the nearest word below 49 characters
Headers and post body The title and the whole post
Headers and first image The title and the first image from the post or the first part of the post to the end of the nearest word below 49 characters if no image is found
Headers and truncated post body and first image The title and the first image from the post and the first part of the post to the end of the nearest word below 49 characters
Blog posts per page How many posts to display per page
Post comments per page How many comments to display per page
Entries sorting oldest entries first or newest
Comment sorting oldest comments first or newest
Hide entry tags Hide the tag links in the posts
Show tags Show all posts or just the posts with the selected tag
Show search box hide or show the blog search box
More options
Format Select a preset format for the post and comment timestamp including a "days ago" format
Time zone Set your local timezone
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Html only blog settings
Using the code editor you can set additional parameters for the blog function
format = The format of the timestamp is the same as Time and date you can set a custom format in this
display_limit = Length of short description (default 49 chars)
display_symbol = What gets shown at the end of the short description (default ...)
version = 1 or 2 1 New features will NOT work Original classes and simple markup 2 Xtgem template classes and new markup with tags comment and search features
badwords = Comma separated list of words banned from comments (banned words are replaced by *****)
comments_disable_links = 1 disable links in comments
poster = name fix the name of the comment poster to the name set and hide the name input
Editing and adding posts
The maximum number of posts is 500
Add new posts using the building tool Or the "quick post" tool
Edit or delete existing posts using the building tool
Title You must add a title for the post
Subtitle The subtitle is optional
Tags A comma seperated list of tags for this post The tags will be shown as links below the title and subtitle Clicking on a tag will show a list of all posts with the same tag
Allow html This will allow you to use html code in your posts or select the visual text tool on the web template If html is NOT allowed in a post you can use bbcode and smileys and newlines will be parsed as well
Visual editor Enable / disable "visual text tool" (web only)
Allow html in comments This will allow visitors to use html code in their comments Only a restricted number of html tags are allowed <u> <i> <b> <strong> <a> <img> <pre> All others will be filtered out. If html is NOT allowed in comments bbcode and smileys can be used by commenter's when writing comments
Disable comments Do not allow comments for this post
Save post as draft Create a post but do not publish it until this is unchecked (new posts only)
Xtfunctions xtwidgets and scripts in blogs
If html is enabled you can use:
All html
The html code versions of xtfunctions in your posts. (except another blog function)
Javascript or jquery.
The html version of xtwidgets As long as the only xtwidgets on the page are in the post
You cannot use xtscript in a blog but you can use a blog in xtscript.
Comments
The comment system is linked to the xt:auth blog subscription service
The comment system allows unlimited multiple branches and threads of comments and replies for each post Comments can be moderated from the blog function in the building tool or from the "comments" tab in the panel
Comment options
In the "Site options" there is a menu for "Blog commenting restrictions" the options are
None (guest posting allowed) Normal unrestricted commenting
Email input required Require the input of a email address
logged in users only Only users that have registered confirmed their email and logged in can comment
Community name
In the "profile settings" on your account page You can set a "community name" This will be used when posting comments on all xtgem sites when you are logged in If you have not set one you will be prompted to set one before you can comment
BBcode and Smilies for Xtblog
For non html comments and posts
[br] line break
[b] Bold text [/b]
[i] Italic text [/i]
[u] Underlined text [/u]
[size=nn] 22px text [/size]
[color=#hhhhhh] Colored text [/color]
http:// addresses are automatically converted to links
[url]http://site.com[url] does the same
[url=http://site.com]some text[/url] creates a text link to the address
[img]http://site.com/image file name[/img] will show a image
[img] tags can be nested in [url=http://site.com] tags to produce image links
Users of one of xtgems templates will find that a lot of the css styling is included in the template but you can still set many extra classes in the global stylesheet file.
For users creating their own stylesheet or just adding a few extra styles the css classes are demonstrated on this site Xt blog css demonstration site
You can use a twig template for xtgems blog function
The code for the template is available HERE To use twig for the blog function create a folder named _xtgem_templates
And copy the code from the above link to xtblog.twig Twig documentation The best way to find out about the latest updates or the twig template for the blog function is to visit the xtgem forum XtGems Forum
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