Help:Blogs/Bloglist

The bloglist feature 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. - and it is extremely customizable.

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

 Cat1 Cat2 Wikian1 Wikian2

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

Using author and category together gives you posts by the selected authors from the selected categories.

Inputs

 * category
 * This is "or" selector - i.e. give it several categories, and it will collate posts from each category together. Defaults to all categories (even uncategorized posts).
 * To use it type:

Category1 Category2 Category3


 * author
 * This is "or" selector - i.e. give it several authors, and it will collate posts from each author together. Defaults to all authors.
 * To use it type:

Author1 Author2 Author3


 * count
 * This is the number of posts shown. Takes a number (integer) input. Defaults to 5.
 * For example:


 * summary
 * Whether a section of the blog post is shown on the listing. Boolean, defaults to false. If true, shows first 200 characters.
 * For example:


 * summarylength
 * Allows you to specify length of the text quoted in characters, if summary=true.
 * For example:


 * type
 * Choose the output style - either box or plain. Defaults to box. Plain is just the content, without 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. Defaults to nothing.
 * For example :


 * order
 * How the post are sorted. Inputs are date, author. Defaults to date.
 * For example :


 * ordertype
 * What direction to sort in. Inputs are descending, ascending. Defaults to descending.
 * For example :


 * timestamp
 * Whether a timestamp is shown. Boolean, defaults to false.
 * For example :

Sample code
 Blog Glob Kirkburn Legolas Drizzt