GS Blog v1.4

[chrsand]

The revised Danish language file can be downloaded from extend:

http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin-lan...-file/464/

/chris

[mikeh]

Version 1.1.6 Added To Extend

• Dynamic RSS Feed
  - You will find a new RSS feed link in the help panel. It is generated on the fly and can be passed parameters for category and tags
  - Each category now has its own RSS feed associated with it. You can view a categories rss feed from the categories page.
  
  
• Fixed archives being sorted alphabetically. They are now sorted by date
  

[Oleg06]

you have to do something for the Russian-speaking users? or if you have already seen "Men in Black 3"?

[mikeh]

you have to do something for the Russian-speaking users? or if you have already seen "Men in Black 3"?

As I said, I placed CDATA in the xml nodes so check to see if that fixed it. I changed my language file and made some posts and categories in Russian to try and replicate the issue. I was unable to after the cdata fix.

[Rosaline]

For future roadmap, id love to see the same, templates for post llistings, and an inline insertion string replacer or whatever to insert them or multiples wherever you want. Not a big fan of slug replacer setups.

Hey Mike,
I have been reading this complete forum conversation, but I still have some questions.

I would like to show only the blog items belonging to a certain category on a page. It would be good if this would be possible by using some stringreplacer I could put in a page. This way it would be easy to manage for the other posters as well.

Is this possible? And if so, how could I accomplish this?

Thanks for all the great work,
Rosaline

[yurifanboy]

For those who use FANCY URLS in this plugin and also include the langauge code, such as es, de ect., in the URL for the ReWrite rules of the I18N plugin, does this present any kind of conflict?

[mikeh]

For future roadmap, id love to see the same, templates for post llistings, and an inline insertion string replacer or whatever to insert them or multiples wherever you want. Not a big fan of slug replacer setups.

Hey Mike,
I have been reading this complete forum conversation, but I still have some questions.

I would like to show only the blog items belonging to a certain category on a page. It would be good if this would be possible by using some stringreplacer I could put in a page. This way it would be easy to manage for the other posters as well.

Is this possible? And if so, how could I accomplish this?

Thanks for all the great work,
Rosaline

I will work on this feature. As of now you can only display a category by linking to the category.

[Oleg06]

нет, не работает ваш плагин с русским языком, увы

[mikeh]

нет, не работает ваш плагин с русским языком, увы

Great news! Let me know if you have any further suggestions or questions.

[Oleg06]

http://games-themes.ru/0/blog/

[mikeh]

http://games-themes.ru/0/blog/

That poses a challenge.. I am not sure how to fix this right now but will work on it.

[mikeh]

http://games-themes.ru/0/blog/

The dates are formatted via php's setlocale() function. It passes in the language code and formats the date accordingly. It seems the function does not like the ru_RU language code. I am working on it now.

[mikeh]

http://games-themes.ru/0/blog/

So I did get it to work but I had to save the Russian language file as ru_RU.utf-8.php instead of ru_RU.php. After renaming the language file, go to the blog->settings page and choose the new language.
It seems the server chokes without defining the character type for Russian/Hebrew language.

Also, would you be willing to provide us with your language file (or upload to extend) so I can include it with the plugin?

P.S.: If the month still does not display properly, try saving the language file as one of the below file names (and then re-setting the language in the blog->settings page.

• ru_RU.koi8-r.php
  
• ru_RU.ISO_8859-5.php
  

If it still does not work, I can give you a small snippet of code to replace and that should get it working.

[yurifanboy]

-Is it possible to remove "post" from the URL?
-Can one add pagination in place of <-olderposts Newer posts ->?
-Displaying the post title, when on the particular post page, in the breadcrumb trail?
-Displaying a tag cloud?
Just some suggestions in the form of questions? 0_o

[jimbo_on_travels]

This is a great plugin! Thanks for your efforts Any chance blog dates with an image can be included? (so the date shows like a calendar). I had this before with dominion blog - but since upgrading, this blog plugin no longer works.

[yojoe]

P.S.: If the month still does not display properly, try saving the language file as one of the below file names (and then re-setting the language in the blog->settings page.

• ru_RU.koi8-r.php
  
• ru_RU.ISO_8859-5.php
  

If it still does not work, I can give you a small snippet of code to replace and that should get it working.

What about adding
setlocale(LC_ALL, ru_RU.utf8, ru.utf8);
date_default_timezone_set('Continent/Capitolcity');
in gs_config ?

Did you think about i18n support ?
It could be done by:
a) connecting certain categories to be displayed on different pages
b) using conditional statements to call the blog function with parameters in template

Last thing I'd like to ask is the excerpt function.
Would it be possible to set first paragraph as excerpt instead of setting a fixed amount of chars ?
Mvlcek added such feature in i18n_search.
And when it goes about amount of shown characters in excerpt, I hope the function doesn't cut the word in the middle.

ps. I'm also interested in answers to yourifanboy's questions

[Oleg06]

category anyway does not work, rss also
http://games-themes.ru/0/blog/
http://games-themes.ru/0/222.jpg

[mikeh]

What about adding
setlocale(LC_ALL, ru_RU.utf8, ru.utf8);
date_default_timezone_set('Continent/Capitolcity');
in gs_config ?

Did you think about i18n support ?
It could be done by:
a) connecting certain categories to be displayed on different pages
b) using conditional statements to call the blog function with parameters in template

Last thing I'd like to ask is the excerpt function.
Would it be possible to set first paragraph as excerpt instead of setting a fixed amount of chars ?
Mvlcek added such feature in i18n_search.
And when it goes about amount of shown characters in excerpt, I hope the function doesn't cut the word in the middle.

ps. I'm also interested in answers to yourifanboy's questions

In relation to your first question. I was going to suggest something of that nature to Oleg06 if the renaming did not work. Thanks.

I will look into i18n capability but am not promising anything. There are a few other features that I want to include before I get to that (custom fields are nearly done). Your suggestion with the categories should actually be a fairly easy integration.

The excerpt function currently in place stops at words, not characters. I will look into providing the "First Paragraph" feature you describe as well.

[mikeh]

-Is it possible to remove "post" from the URL?
-Can one add pagination in place of <-olderposts Newer posts ->?
-Displaying the post title, when on the particular post page, in the breadcrumb trail?
-Displaying a tag cloud?
Just some suggestions in the form of questions? 0_o

1. Right now I am not sure, mod_rewrite is not my strong suit.
2. Right now there is not a way to add pagination. I will see about adding this as an option.
3. I do not understand this question.
4. Tag clouds are not possible but could be added easily. I will add this to a future version.

[mikeh]

This is a great plugin! Thanks for your efforts Any chance blog dates with an image can be included? (so the date shows like a calendar). I had this before with dominion blog - but since upgrading, this blog plugin no longer works.

Would you be able to provide an example?

[yojoe]

In relation to your first question. I was going to suggest something of that nature to Oleg06 if the renaming did not work. Thanks.

I use this with every GS instance for long time (along with setting default language) as there are still unsolved problems with internationalization and dates.
Those two tricks seemed to solve some of them

I will look into i18n capability but am not promising anything. There are a few other features that I want to include before I get to that (custom fields are nearly done). Your suggestion with the categories should actually be a fairly easy integration.

No need to rush of course. It's just that only Mvlcek's search plugin provides functionality to display articles by categories. I'm personally fine with that, but it needs technical knowledge to operate with all functionalities of his plugin, which is imo not that simple - not to say impossible - for non-technical users.

The excerpt function currently in place stops at words, not characters. I will look into providing the "First Paragraph" feature you describe as well.

hmm, I'd even suggest 2 radio buttons and 1 input field, where:
radio: chars / paragraphs
input: amount of chars or paragraphs

Any chance blog dates with an image can be included? (so the date shows like a calendar). I had this before with dominion blog - but since upgrading, this blog plugin no longer works.

Would you be able to provide an example?

Look at Cumbe's pages&comments plugins. There are two blog templates, where in one of them there's a calendar-like date being shown.

-Displaying the post title, when on the particular post page, in the breadcrumb trail?
-Displaying a tag cloud?

1. Right now I am not sure, mod_rewrite is not my strong suit.
3. I do not understand this question.
4. Tag clouds are not possible but could be added easily. I will add this to a future version.

ad1: I see a similar approach to newsmanager.
But there's one problem: getting rid of /blog may interefere with normal page URIs, as the blog entries doesn't contain any timestamp nor date.
The best thing would be to create URIs dynamically, based on the parent page, but current rewrite rules won't allow this.

ad3: just a breadcrumb displaying currently visited blog page title at the end of the tail

ad4: I've seen that, although blog pages are being saved in own directory, f.e. i18n gallery plugin works.
I haven't tested more Mvlcek's plugins, but I'd wish his search plugin would also search and grab blog's pages tags to display tag cloud.

[evan70]

I haven't tested more Mvlcek's plugins, but I'd wish his search plugin would also search and grab blog's pages tags to display tag cloud.

it would be realy very nice Feature !

[mvlcek]

I haven't tested more Mvlcek's plugins, but I'd wish his search plugin would also search and grab blog's pages tags to display tag cloud.

it would be realy very nice Feature !

It is quite easy to make I18N Search index non-page items like blog entries, see here.

@mikeh: But this is a task that should be done by the plugin author, as it requires access to the plugin's files and way of displaying entries, which the author knows best.

[lr]

Hi I installed and the blog is running great apart from image upload /save in the edit post area
The images upload okay, (and they show on the front end)
Problem is when I save the code converts to (example)
<img alt="\\&quot;\\&quot;" data-cke-saved-src="\\" src="\\&quot;http://domain.co.uk/blog/data/uploads/imgtest.jpg\\&quot;" style="\\&quot;width:" 210px;="" height:="" \\"="">
in admin...

Upload thumbnail in blog post options and pages image upload is working okay
Any ideas on fixing this much appreciated

Update/extra info:
magic_quotes_gpc is off. ( via directory php.ini)
I am using simpicity theme, I tried the current stable version and beta of getsimple.
News module and a couple of other plugins are working fine with the ckeditor. Is there something i can change locally in blog plugin to stop the code getting messed up in admin?
NOTE: Images are showing on the front end but the admin user does not know html so I need it to look friendly.
Any help /pointers really appreciated.

[mikeh]

I haven't tested more Mvlcek's plugins, but I'd wish his search plugin would also search and grab blog's pages tags to display tag cloud.

it would be realy very nice Feature !

It is quite easy to make I18N Search index non-page items like blog entries, see here.

@mikeh: But this is a task that should be done by the plugin author, as it requires access to the plugin's files and way of displaying entries, which the author knows best.

I will incorporate this into 2.0. Thank you for your input mvlcek.