Help:Blogs/Bloglist

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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 <bloglist> extension.

Step-by-Step

Decide what page you'd like to display a blog listing on, and open that page for editing.

Switch to Source mode and enter the following code on the page:

<bloglist></bloglist>

Save the page and enjoy your new bloglist, which displays all of the recent blog posts of the wiki, and looks something like the image to the right.

Customizing

There are a number of parameters you can define to change the content of your blog list so it works for different content pages. 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.

Here's an example of customization:

<bloglist count=3 summary=true summarylength=250 type=plain title="Sample code" timestamp=true order=date>
<category>Blog</category>
<category>Glob</category>
<author>Kirkburn</author>
<author>Legolas</author>
<author>Drizzt</author>
</bloglist>

Categories and authors

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.

List of parameters

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:

<author>Author1</author>
<author>Author2</author>
<author>Author3</author>

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:

<category>Category1</category>
<category>Category2</category>
<category>Category3</category>

count: This specifies the number of posts to query.; Takes a number (integer) input. If unspecified, it defaults to 5.; For example: <bloglist count=3>

displaycount: This specifies the number of posts to display. Normally this shouldn't be used, unless there is some reason you want to query the database for more results than are actually shown on the page.; Takes a number (integer) input. If unspecified, it defaults to 5.; For example: <bloglist displaycount=3>

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 true or false, defaulting to false. If true, it shows first 200 characters of the blog post.; For example: <bloglist summary=true>

summarylength: This allows you to specify length of the text quoted in characters, if summary=true.; For example: <bloglist summary=true summarylength=300>

title: This specifies the title when posts are shown with type=box. If it uses multiple words, the text must be written in quote marks.; For example: <bloglist title="Evil draws close">

type

Choose the general output style.

Inputs are either box, plain, count, noparse and array. If unspecified, it defaults to box.

box places the listing in a pre-stylized box.

plain is just the list without any styling.

count doesn't display a blog listing at all, instead it displays the number of blog posts on the wiki.

noparse shows entire blog posts, completely ignoring the summary length.

array doesn't seem to be useful / hasn't been implemented. It just prints the word "Array".

For example: <bloglist type=plain>

order: This specifies how the post are sorted.; Inputs are date, author, or comments. If unspecified, it defaults to date.; For example: <bloglist order=author>

ordertype: This specifies what direction to sort in.; Inputs are desc (meaning "descending") or asc (meaning "ascending"). If unspecified, it defaults to desc.; For example: <bloglist ordertype=desc>

create_timestamp: Allows for only showing posts that have been created more recently than a specified date.; Input is a timestamp of the form YYYYMMDDHHMMSS (year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds); For example: <bloglist create_timestamp=20121028000000>

timestamp: Allows for only showing posts that have been edited more recently than a specified date.; Input is a timestamp of the form YYYYMMDDHHMMSS (year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds); For example: <bloglist timestamp=20121028000000>

seemore: This specifies the URL that the "See More >" link should go to.; For example: <bloglist seemore="http://lyrics.wikia.com">

Other notes

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

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