Blog

Please note

This extension was used until BlueSpice version 2.27 and is no longer used in BlueSpice 3.

What is Blog?

Blog extension allows creating news feeds on the wiki. These news feeds can be shown on any page and users can be allowed to add their own news.

Usage / Features

To display a blog on a wiki page, the tag <bs:blog /> should be placed on it.

By default it shows all the pages in the namespace "blog" as blog entries with the most recent post appearing first.

The behaviour of the blog can be influenced by adding attributes to this tag. In this way e.g. the number of entries to be shown and more can be configured.

Technical information

Configuration

Some aspects of this extension can be configured on Special:BlueSpicePreferences under section "Blog". Here wiki administrators can configure the default values for all the settings that can be configured by adding attributes to the blog tag.

Setting	Description	Default value
Display pictures as	Defines how should images in blog entries be handled. There are three options: full (image will be shown in full size), thumb (image will be shown as a thumb) and none	thumb
Number of words per entry	How many words to allow in the blog post before "continue reading" is shown	1000
Open new window for read more	Should full version of the blog entry, once "continue reading" is clicked, be opened in same or new tab/window	false
Position for the new blog entry form	Whether to show create new form on top or bottom of the page
Show all entries link		true
Show information about the entry		true
Number of blog entries	Number of blog entries to show per page	10
Show new blog entry form	Should "Create new blog entry" form be shown	true
Show permalink link	Should permanent link to blog entry be shown	true
Sort by	Should blog entries be sorted by creation time or by title	creation
Text flow: Image position	Position of the image in the blog entry, right, left or none	right

Rights (permissions)

This extension introduces the new permission "blog-viewspecialpage" that allows users  to access the special page  Special:Blog

Requirements

Blog requires the BlueSpice Foundation.

User manual

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