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[TaylorJ] Blogs 1.2.1
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KensonPlays
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Thanks, it was in the middle of the thread so I didn't notice it. Could possibly be useful to add to OP or post after.
Edit:
Suggestion: Show recommended image dimensions for blog header.
Suggestion: Featured Image for individual posts that will show for embeds on other XF sites, Discord, etc.
Suggestion: Categories. That way if your blog spans multiple categories you can specify per-post and can sort by that category from all blogs.
Taylor J
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Those are all on the list as planned features for the future, categories will be a bit tougher to figure out as I don't want people to have to create multiple forums for the different categories blog posts (how the RM is setup here with Addons, Styles, Tips and tricks, etc etc).
KensonPlays
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Usually I have one category selected, but rarely, once in a while, I'll have a secondary, but it's not common.
KensonPlays
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Suggestion: estimated time to read (so people can see if they have time to read it or need to skip it)
Suggestion: Related posts. This can help with lowering bounce rate sometimes. Not sure how you'd add it, but maybe if they share a tag, they could show as related?
Suggestion: Embed BBCode, to show an excerpt and clickable area to the blog post in any thread on-site.
Suggestion: Share buttons. Maybe use native XF share buttons, and have a way to show it at top and bottom of post?
Suggestion: "More Entries From" Show more entries from same blog, or same author.
Suggestion: Related posts. This can help with lowering bounce rate sometimes. Not sure how you'd add it, but maybe if they share a tag, they could show as related?
Suggestion: Embed BBCode, to show an excerpt and clickable area to the blog post in any thread on-site.
Suggestion: Share buttons. Maybe use native XF share buttons, and have a way to show it at top and bottom of post?
Suggestion: "More Entries From" Show more entries from same blog, or same author.
Taylor J
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Small update, this is still being worked on as I've been adding some small features along side comments to go along with the next release. I just had a very exhausting on call week at work though so I didn't have any free time to put into this last week / most of this current week. I'm hoping to get a release out as soon as I can.
With that being said, I'm working as hard and fast as possible, but I realized with comments added in now that the way I handle scheduled posts is not efficient when the post is changed from scheduled to visible with the addons job that I have. I am having to brainstorm how to best handle this and the most likely solution is to finally start/finish the refactor of my creation logic to services/repositories so that I can more easily control the saving process of blog posts. My current code base is pretty messy with one entity sort of using a creator service and others not.
With that being said, I'm working as hard and fast as possible, but I realized with comments added in now that the way I handle scheduled posts is not efficient when the post is changed from scheduled to visible with the addons job that I have. I am having to brainstorm how to best handle this and the most likely solution is to finally start/finish the refactor of my creation logic to services/repositories so that I can more easily control the saving process of blog posts. My current code base is pretty messy with one entity sort of using a creator service and others not.
Only if XF used his code and table nomenclature, or provided a conversion script. The later would be a pretty loose interpretation of "seamless".
Digital Doctor
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Not really a worry
@Taylor J
Sincerely thank you for writing this addon. I think it's quite interesting.
I just installed it so I don't have much feedback yet.
I just hope you can add the privilege feature to view the blogs section.
For example, my forum is an internal forum and I don't want guests to see this Blogs section.
I need a feature to hide it from being displayed.
Sincerely thank you for writing this addon. I think it's quite interesting.
I just installed it so I don't have much feedback yet.
I just hope you can add the privilege feature to view the blogs section.
For example, my forum is an internal forum and I don't want guests to see this Blogs section.
I need a feature to hide it from being displayed.
Taylor J
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Estimated read time has been added for the next release.
The other suggestions have been added to my board of possible features as I'll take a further look into them.
Thank you for letting me know! There are certainly spots still that are hard coded and not using phrases and if you find any more of them please feel free to let me know!
I believe that would be up to the XenForo team and any importer they would make if they were to ever add a blog feature of their own.
Thank you for this suggestion and I plan to have it implemented for the next release!
Prefix's are something I'm still debating on adding or not. If I do it will only be using the core XenForo prefix system which I am not sure supports multi prefix's.
Comments are already added and will be released in the next Beta version!
Hmmm I'll have to get another test install going here later today to see if I can replicate this. I haven't had this pop up at all locally as of yet.
