| 45 | | * Plone 2.1.x |
| 46 | | * qRSS2Syndication |
| 47 | | * qPingTool |
| 48 | | * XMLRPCMethod |
| 49 | | * Archetypes 1.3.5 and above |
| | 93 | * Trackback management: |
| | 94 | You have 2 configlets in plone control panel: |
| | 95 | * BlackList Importer - allow you form URL's black list - both: by direct Black list editing or by file uploading. |
| | 96 | black list records interprets as regular expressions. |
| | 97 | * Clean TrackBacks - allow manage new (not published) trackbacks: mark as black and remove, publish. |
| | 98 | Represent all trackbacks from all portal's blogs in table. |
| | 99 | |
| | 100 | * Adsense in blogs - allow adding google adsense block in Blog entries. |
| | 101 | * go to plone control panel to Adsense Properties and input your customer Id |
| | 102 | |
| | 103 | * Blog API - for working with blog and it's content through external application. |
| | 104 | |
| | 105 | == Description == |
| | 106 | qPloneBlog is an easy to use Plone based weblog application with fore portal types: Blog, BlogFolder, BlogEntry and Trackback: |
| | 107 | * Blog - Folderish object that is the container for the BlogEntries and the front-page of the weblog. |
| | 108 | * BlogEntry - Entry object inside the weblog. |
| | 109 | * BlogFolder - Folder that can only exist inside the Blog container. The folder allows you to organize the BlogEntries in any way you like. |
| | 110 | * Trackback - trackback to other blog-post (web resource possible).Can be added only to BlogEntry type object. Contains short information about blog-post, which links to blog entry, where trackback URL, of this BlogEntry is added. Can be in two workflow states: pending and published. |
| | 111 | |
| | 112 | == Getting started == |
| | 113 | You can go to any folder that you have permissions for and add a Blog from any of the dropdown lists. You will be given a form where you can provide the necessary information to create a new Blog: |
| | 114 | |
| | 115 | * '''Short Name''', '''Title''', '''Description''' will speak for themselves. |
| | 116 | |
| | 117 | * '''Maximum number of blog entries to display''' defines how many items should be visible on the Blog's front-page. |
| | 118 | |
| | 119 | * '''Available entry Categories''', '''Tags''' is a list of categories and tags accordingly, that can be used inside BlogEntries one category or tag per line). |
| | 120 | |
| | 121 | After clicking on '''next''' button you will go to next blog's '''[interface]''' property list and provide appropriate customizations: |
| | 122 | |
| | 123 | * '''Show warning for unpublished entries''' - turning on/off displaying warning on the blog's frontpage if there are entries that are not yet published. |
| | 124 | |
| | 125 | * '''Show Byline footer''', '''Show Icons''' - checkboxes for switching on/off appearance accordingly footer and icon for BlogEntry. |
| | 126 | |
| | 127 | * '''Enable technorati tags''' and '''Allow Trackback''' - will speak for themselves. |
| | 128 | |
| | 129 | * '''Turn ... bookmarklet''' - turn on/off appearance appropriate bookmarklet in the Byline footer. |
| | 130 | |
| | 131 | * '''Turn top Adsence block''' and '''Turn bottom Adsence block''' - turn on/off top and bottom google adsense blocks for blog entries. |
| | 132 | |
| | 133 | * '''Select top adsence template''' and '''Select bottom adsence template''' - give you possibility to chose an adsense template. |
| | 134 | |
| | 135 | After you have created the Blog, you can adjust its Display settings from the Display menu in Plone. Currently there are 3 different display settings. Besides these settings, there is also a stylesheet in product's skin that you can customize at will. |
| | 136 | |
| | 137 | After you have created the Blog, you can start creating BlogEntries. Choose BlogEntry from the Add items list and fill in the form: |
| | 138 | |
| | 139 | * '''Short Name''', '''Title''', '''Teaser''', '''Body''' will speak for themselves. '''Note''' when you use the Upload a file field, be aware that it will replace the current content!! |
| | 140 | |
| | 141 | * '''Always on top''' Controls if the Entry, when published is always shown first. This can be handy for announcements etc. |
| | 142 | |
| | 143 | * '''Categories''' Select one or more categories from the list to classify the BlogEntry. |
| | 144 | |
| | 145 | * '''Tags''' - allow you select or add tag(s) for technorati.com |
| | 146 | |
| | 147 | * '''sendTrackBackURLs''' - a list of trackback URLs (one per line). On publishing this blog entry, information about it sends to URLs. |
| | 148 | |
| | 149 | * '''Digg topic''' - Choose the digg topic for symplify blog entry readers digging this entry. |
| | 150 | |
| | 151 | * '''Related items''' point to other content in your portal to indicate them as related. |
| | 152 | |
| | 153 | * '''Allow Discussion on this item''' control whether people can comment on this entry. |
| | 154 | |
| | 155 | After the BlogEntry is saved, it will be in the 'draft' workflow state and is only visible by the owner and the manager (by default). So, in order to make it appear on the Blog's front-page, it must be set in the 'published' state |
| | 156 | The Blog will search and display the BlogEntries that have this state (this state is defined in the simpleblog_tool in ZMI and in the configlet in Plone setup). When putting the BlogEntry in the published state, you can also choose to give it an effective date somewhere in the future. SimpleBlog uses the standard way of publishing content. |
| | 157 | |
| | 158 | Inside the Blog you can create BlogFolders. These are a bit similar to the Blog itself in that it has roughly the same view but this time it only shows the Entries that are stored inside the BlogFolder (and subfolders). |
| | 159 | BlogFolders are there for your convenience, to organize or archive Entries in any way you want and to have additional categories (see below). |
| | 160 | |
| | 161 | To BlogEntry also Trackback can be added. Trackback include following fields: |
| | 162 | |
| | 163 | * '''Short Name''', '''Title''', '''Description''' will speak for themselves. |
| | 164 | |
| | 165 | * '''Url''', '''Blog_name''' and '''excerpt''' point to URL, Blog's name and |
| | 166 | excerpt accordingly of trackbacked blog post, frow witch this blog entry |
| | 167 | was linked in. |
| | 168 | |
| | 169 | Commonly trackbacks added by blog itself (trackback system). After adding Trackback presents in **pending** state and on defoult permissions set is visible only for Manager and Owner roles. After publishing - it's visible for all. |
| | 170 | |
| | 171 | == Technorati Tags == |
| | 172 | qPloneBlog support Technorati tags if following manner: in '''Tags''' field of BlogEntry - you may point existent or add new tag(s). On the BlogEntry view page - you may view pointed tags. Clicking one of the BlogEntry ''tag'' bring you to page "Everything tagged ''tag''", on www.technorati.com. |
| | 173 | |
| | 174 | == Other Features == |
| | 175 | * RSS2 SUPPORT with qRSS2Syndication product (http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/qRRS2Syndication) |
| | 176 | |
| | 177 | * BLOGGER APIS |
| | 178 | qPloneBlog provide 3 blogger APIs: |
| | 179 | - MetaWeblog API |
| | 180 | - MovableType API |
| | 181 | - Blogger API |
| | 182 | You need not to perform any tuning in Blog or portal - only in Blogger apllication for use this possibility. |
| | 183 | |
| | 184 | * BOOKMARKLETS |
| | 185 | As was mentioned earlier, on Blog editing page, on interface shemata settings you will see 5 checkboxes '''Turn ... bookmarklet''', which manage bookmarklets appearance on BlogEntry footer. |
| | 186 | |
| | 187 | * GOOGLE ADSENSE |
| | 188 | On Blog editing page, on interface shemata also presernt 2 checkboxes: |
| | 189 | '''Turn ... Adsence block''' with self explanatory labels. It is important to notise, that this checkboxes switches google adsense appearance in '''every BlogEntry of the blog'''. |
| | 190 | Other tuning google adsense block possibility is selection block type for each top and bottom blocks. This featchure also present on interface schemata of Blog edit page. |
| | 191 | And at last - you have to go to plone control panel, to '''Adsense Properties''' and enter '''customer Id''', got from Google. |
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