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The bloglist feature from blog articles allows you to embed a blog listing within a normal wiki article. It's like a blog listing page to go, and uses the  extension.

There are a number of parameters you can define to format the embedded list to fit within different content pages - e.g. the main page, the community portal, a contest page, etc. In addition, it is extremely customizable.

Though this may seem complex at first, you can specify as many or as few parameters as you wish, as each parameter has a default setting. Even  will give you good results - it will list every post on the wiki.

Basic form
The basic form of the extension is as following:

 Category1 Category2 Author1 Author2

Categories and authors
Note how the category and author sections are written differently to other inputs - this is because they can take multiple inputs.

In addition, using author and category together gives you posts by the selected authors from the selected categories.

Valid extension inputs

 * category
 * This specifies which categories posts are pulled from.
 * It is an "or" selector - i.e. give it several categories, and it will collate posts from each category together. If unspecified, it defaults to show all categories (even uncategorized posts).
 * To use it type:

Category1 Category2 Category3


 * author
 * This specifies which authors posts are collated from.
 * It is an "or" selector - i.e. give it several authors, and it will collate posts from each author together. If unspecified, it defaults to all authors.
 * To use it type:

Author1 Author2 Author3


 * count
 * This specifies the number of posts shown.
 * Takes a number (integer) input. If unspecified, it defaults to 5.
 * For example:


 * summary
 * This specifies whether a section of the blog post is shown on the listing. Please note it is not intended to show full blog posts - it shows only sections, stripped of formatting.
 * Inputs are  or , defaulting to false. If true, it shows first 200 characters of the blog post.
 * For example:


 * summarylength
 * This allows you to specify length of the text quoted in characters, if.
 * For example:


 * type
 * Choose the general output style.
 * Inputs are either  or plain. If unspecified, it defaults to box. Plain is just the content, without any box styling.
 * For example:


 * title
 * When posts are shown in a box, this is shown as the box title. If it uses multiple words, the text must be written in quote marks.
 * For example:


 * style
 * This allows the addition of extra style parameters for the listing, and works like normal CSS styling.
 * If unspecified, it defaults to blank.
 * For example :


 * order
 * This specifies how the post are sorted.
 * Inputs are  or  . If unspecified, it defaults to date.
 * For example :


 * ordertype
 * This specifies what direction to sort in.
 * Inputs are,  . If unspecified, it defaults to descending.
 * For example :


 * timestamp
 * This specifies whether a timestamp is shown.
 * Inputs are  or  . If unspecified, it defaults to false.
 * For example :

Sample code
 Blog Glob Kirkburn Legolas Drizzt

Other notes

 * If no valid posts are found, the following message will be displayed: "No posts found. Write one!"