Blog Admin "Simplified"

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noutlaw Posted: Tue, Jun 3 2008 5:07 PM

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Hello -

We are building a site using CS/2008.  However are users are typically not "advanced" in writing blogs/etc.  Is there a way to make the blog creation module easier?  Essentially - just use a compose screen like when you "post a message" but it's associated with the user account and acts like a blog/article/story... we don't want the messages to go into a forum per-se rather like the users personal entries... e.g. i'm keeing a daily journal of bike riding - want to post on today's ride and let others comment on it....  but all the other extra techno capabilities i don't need...

ideas/?

muchas gracias

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andrevs replied on Thu, Jun 5 2008 4:33 PM

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 Setup the user's MS Word 2007 to publish to the blog or use Windows Live Writer or create a BlogMailr account (http://www.blogmailr.com/Default.aspx)

I would recommend using Live Writer to blog

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noutlaw replied on Thu, Jun 5 2008 5:07 PM

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 thanks - however the users aren't going to be that smart to use a 3rd party tool - we simply want to let them do basic blog posts w/o all the formal cs related stuff.  After doing some more research it seems that you could code your own blog posting widget via the api's allowing the user to create their "subjet" and "body text" and have it directly published into the engine...

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Alex Crome replied on Thu, Jun 5 2008 5:25 PM

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You could always just create a custom page with a CreateEditWeblogPostForm.  You can see a sample useage of the CreateEditWeblogPostForm in ~/ControlPanel/Blogs/posteditor.aspx, however you'll probably want to strip it down to just Subject, Body and Tags for your simplified post editor page.

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noutlaw replied on Thu, Jun 5 2008 5:55 PM

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 yup i think that's the ticket.

thanks!

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andrevs replied on Fri, Jun 6 2008 1:01 AM

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 I think I might actually go the same route

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Alex Crome replied on Fri, Jun 6 2008 3:07 AM

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If you go down this route, you'll need to change some links in the Blog Theme to point to this page instead of the edit / create page in the Control Panel.  If you want your page to appear at ~/Blogs/BLOG-NAME/createeditpost.aspx, you'll need to do some funky stuff in SiteUrls.config, as well as creating one such page for each blog theme you allow to be used on your site.