Social blog

About the blog

Basically, a blog is a list of comments, questions, or feedback from different users. The blog is often sorted chronologically downwards, in the sense of a public journal. A lively communication can arise when the contributions are further commented, recommended, linked with related articles or placed on a personal watchlist.

The extension BlueSpiceSocialBlog is part of BlueSpiceSocial, the communication module of BlueSpice. In addition to the type blog, there are other types of so-called social entities, such as comment, discussion, attachment, or microblog. Contributions from all these types can be consolidated and displayed chronologically with BlueSpiceSocial in a timeline and filtered and sorted as needed. The blog function is ready for use on the special page Special:Blog. This page is linked directly from the main navigation in every new wiki installation. So you can start right away with using the blog. It is also possible to include the blog functionality on any wiki page.

Adding the blog to a page

If you want to include a view of your blog on another page of your wiki, for example your homepage, you need to insert the necessary codeblock in the source code of your page.

To include a blog view:

1. Go to the page where you want to insert the blog or create a new page.
2. Open the page in Source editing mode.
   
3. Copy the following code block to the section in your page where you want to show the blog.

   <bs:timeline>
    {
        "showentitylistmenu": true,
        "preloadtitles": {
            "blog": "Vorlage:Blog"
        },
        "preloadedentities": [{
            "type": "blog"
        }],
        "headlinemessagekey": "Community-Blog",
         "showheadline": true,
        "usemorescroll": false,
        "morelink": "Special:Blog",
        "limit": 5,
        "sort": [ {
            "property": "timestampcreated",
            "direction": "DESC"
        }],
        "lockedfilternames": [
            "type"
        ],
        "filter": [ {
            "type": "list",
            "property": "type",
            "value": [ "blog" ],
            "comparison": "ct"
        }]
    }
   </bs:timeline>
   

   After saving the page, you will see a list of existing blog entries based on the filter and sorting criteria you provided.

Element	Parameters	Description	Type	Default value
1 - header	headlinemessagekey	header text	str
	1 - header	showheadline	show the header text	boolean	true
2 - blog menu	showentitylistmenu	show or hide the blog menu	boolean	true
3 - create blog entry
4 - existing blog entry
4a - avatar
4b - title bar
4c - blog entry content
4d - social tags
4e - user menu
5 - new comment
6 - existing comment
7 - "more" link