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Blog AddOn

A simple weblog application.

See TWiki.BlogAddOn for an introduction and installation instructions.
This topic is meant for administrators and serves as introduction springboard to BlogAddOn topics. You may safely delete this topic.

Start from here
Reference for administrators
Putting the blog post overview in a different topic

Start from here

BlogPost - overview of all posts with filtering and sorting options
BlogPostCreator - form to start new posts
BlogCategory - editable list of blog categories

Reference for administrators

BlogPostForm - form definition with post data fields
BlogPostTemplate - every new post gets settings from this topic
BlogPostViewTemplate - every post is displayed through this view template
BlogPostCommentTemplate - form template for comment box (see TWiki.CommentPlugin)
BlogAddOnStyles - default css styles for BlogPost and blog posts (BlogPostViewTemplate)

Note: Care must be taken when:

Renaming post topics: the comment topic needs to be renamed as well
- The comment topic is created automatically when the first comment is submitted, using the syntax topic name + Comment.
Renaming categories: the comment topics are not updated automatically

Putting the blog post overview in a different topic

To put the overview in a topic, write:

%INCLUDE{"BlogPost"}%

You may set display defaults, for example for category and sort field, using additional parameters. Possible values are:

Parameter	Possible values	Default value
`category`	`Achievement`, `Research`, `Administrative`, `Event`, `=, =Seminar` (categories can be defined in BlogCategory)	none
`sort`	`formfield(Title)`, `formfield(Category)`, `formfield(Author)`, `created`, `modified`	none
`limit`	any number	no limit
`sortdirection`	`ascending`, `descending`	`ascending`

For example, to show latest 10 posts, sorted latest post on top, write:

%INCLUDE{"BlogPost" sortdirection="descending" sort="created" limit="10"}%

This will generate:

Sort by:
Title Category Author Date Last modified

How To Play A Video Game

07 Dec 2011 - 00:43 in Research

PippinBarr was recently interviewed for the launch of his new book How To Play A Video Game by the Dominion Post in the news article Lecturer's dream job much more than just kids' stuff.

NZCS Student Contest

22 Nov 2011 - 12:42 in Event

DanielAtkins and CameronFowler (400 Level Honours Students) from Elvis competed in the New Zealand Computer Society Student Contest of the Wellington branch. Daniel talked about X10 and his modifications to the language, while Cameron talked about how he used a Microsoft Kinect device to help aid rock climbers improve their climbing skills. Cameron was awarded second place.