vnevermore
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If you ever wanted to have your own blog on your visiolist this topic will give you the way to make it easily.
I was thinking of making a blog for my toplist, where i would be able to post articles.
Instead of making it on a new folder, with another admin panel and another platform i came up with an idea.
I said... i will use the current page system. It has everything i need,
title,editable url, SEO tags and finally highly rich text editor.
What it does not have to fit 100% my needs? A thumbnail for each article/page.
So i made a thumbnail system, which actually lets you set up a preview image for each article.
http://prntscr.com/dd4fuv
http://prntscr.com/dd4g95
Its not that hard to make the thumbnail system, we use simple php to upload the files to a specific folder and rename them as the id of the page, when the file is uploaded we save on a new column on the database its URL.
Then my next step was to create, a sidebar plugin which will SELECT from the database the 5 latest articles and its data.
Easy enough copying the already made sidebars i managed to parse all the data from database to vars and then to show them on my page. ( on create, i've also added the creation_data to be saved on the database )
http://prntscr.com/dd4i38
Then you will need to use CSS to adjust the text's etc and your custom made blog is almost ready.
And that's it, in less than 2 hours you can have your own integrated blog system on your VL.
Taking this to the next level would be to create a custom page/a=blog
which will also load the data on a main blog page. ( i am working on it, will be ready today )
Also we can handle the URL's with .htaccess to be SEO friendly.
Disadvantages of doing this?
1) you cannot create anymore normal page's, but for me is no problem since i manage my custom pages with plugins. ( you can also add a boolean config is_post_for_blog on creation and SELECT only pages which have it 1 or TRUE to solve this issue )
Admins maybe on 1.6 you can integrate a copy pasted PAGE system but renamed ^_^
I was thinking of making a blog for my toplist, where i would be able to post articles.
Instead of making it on a new folder, with another admin panel and another platform i came up with an idea.
I said... i will use the current page system. It has everything i need,
title,editable url, SEO tags and finally highly rich text editor.
What it does not have to fit 100% my needs? A thumbnail for each article/page.
So i made a thumbnail system, which actually lets you set up a preview image for each article.
http://prntscr.com/dd4fuv
http://prntscr.com/dd4g95
Its not that hard to make the thumbnail system, we use simple php to upload the files to a specific folder and rename them as the id of the page, when the file is uploaded we save on a new column on the database its URL.
Then my next step was to create, a sidebar plugin which will SELECT from the database the 5 latest articles and its data.
Easy enough copying the already made sidebars i managed to parse all the data from database to vars and then to show them on my page. ( on create, i've also added the creation_data to be saved on the database )
http://prntscr.com/dd4i38
Then you will need to use CSS to adjust the text's etc and your custom made blog is almost ready.
And that's it, in less than 2 hours you can have your own integrated blog system on your VL.
Taking this to the next level would be to create a custom page/a=blog
which will also load the data on a main blog page. ( i am working on it, will be ready today )
Also we can handle the URL's with .htaccess to be SEO friendly.
Disadvantages of doing this?
1) you cannot create anymore normal page's, but for me is no problem since i manage my custom pages with plugins. ( you can also add a boolean config is_post_for_blog on creation and SELECT only pages which have it 1 or TRUE to solve this issue )
Admins maybe on 1.6 you can integrate a copy pasted PAGE system but renamed ^_^
