Forum:Help on blog management

I'm trying to figure out Blog management

I made a BlogListingPage to catch a specific category that users put in their blog. But that was just a test. How do I delete it? I can't find any edit toolbar on the page, just a create button.

Here's want I'm really trying to do

Let users create a blog with 2 categories, one indicating the 'group', and one indicating a 'thread' within their blog for just this particular topic inside the wiki.Then I create a BlogListingPage to show the group, so that everyone's shows up in order of most recent posts in the category. Then I want a page that users can add an entry to that points to all their blog entries with that group and thread in it.

Example, a user will create a blog marked by category "plog" and "franky".

Then in my listing page we'll see all the blog entries in category "plog" for all users, most recent first.

Then I create another page the user can put a link to a bloglistingpage to their "plog" and "franky" blog category entries. That way a person could review all the posts of a specific user in time order.


 * The easiest way to delete a listing page is to tag the end of the URL with . As for the rest of it, are you trying to make listings on a per user basis? If so, you can do it two ways.
 * 1) Change the sort by dropdown to 'Author' when creating the listing. That will sort the blogs by author on a single listing.
 * 2) Tag each user's blogs with a category named after them. Then add this category to the listing.

Ok. So I went back and made two listings, one by 'recent' and one by 'author'. But the author one is not what I was looking for. I wanted just a list of of links to each of the authors listings who had blogs with 'plog' in them (ie just a list of bloglist pages for each user who had created them )

I'm gathering you can't edit these listing pages, you can only delete them when they don't come out right and try again. It's really annoying.

I can't understand the category picking in the listing creation page - it's very confusing. I can't tell what is picked - there is no cue. I'm really getting fustrated with this blog system - it's terrible UX.

So I tried to create a blog listing page with just my blogs (with category 'Plog' and 'Dunno') but nothing shows up in the result page as I expected to start (I hadn't marked the Dunno category anywhere yet). I then go into my blogs and add a category 'Dunno' to one that already had the 'Plog' category. It still doesn't show on the listing page even though I ran the page with <>?action=purge. I don't understand why it doesn't show up.

Is there a way to check what the code is for a created bloglisting page? Perhaps I made the page wrong - I can't tell!

Specific links to what I've tried are here-

The page that shows blogs with 'Plog' category is

http://pleo.wikia.com/wiki/Blog:Plogs:_Pleo_Blogs

Page to show 'Plog' by Author - a list of the bloglistingpages for 'Plog' and "something" to indicate a specific person's thread of blogs

http://pleo.wikia.com/wiki/Plog_by_Author

My personal attempt to make a listing page with 'Plog' and 'Dunno' category.

http://pleo.wikia.com/wiki/Blog:Dunno%27s_Plog

A blog entry that has both 'Plog' and 'Dunno' but doesn't show up in the listing page for 'Dunno's Plog'

http://pleo.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Sabaker/Testing_Plog1

Can I please buy a clue? Is it possible to tell something from view source on the blog listing page that will provide the category parameters used to filter? i couldn't find anything.


 * Have you considered not using the built-in blog listing UI at all and instead just make a page using  tags?
 * You could also consider using the  tags and filter by User_blog namespace. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 29 Mar 2012 10:39 AM Pacific