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Blogs Made Simple

I will be trying to shed some light on using, filling and styling this module in the period from February to April 2008. There are lots of people who know more about the subject than me, you know who you are. Please feel free to edit this page, otherwise I will be picking your brain and channeling the info here. Rbroen 14:55, 13 February 2008 (CST)

Morten has done a wonderful job setting up the blog module and has taken time to fix the bugs that came up. Now it's time to improve the documentation. Feel free to jump in or mail me: robert AT flame DOT nl.

Because Rbroen has started this, and I am falling in love with this most logical, useful, and wonderful of CMS systems, I will try and help as I go through building my first CMS made simple site. When I think of ALL the websites I have built from scratch, becuase other types of CMS systems were other more effort to teach clients and redeploy, and I never knew of this one, wowoh! And it is based on Smarty, my other latest new love! OK. soo...here we go.***--CAESONIA--*** Devia.Fan (at) gmail(dot)com

Installing

If you have managed to install CMS Made Simple, and have a workling administrative panel, just use the Modules Manager listed under the Extensions tab. You will simply go through alphabetically choosing the Blog module, and click install. If it flakes for some reason on the first try, as happened with me, just reinstall. The second time worked fine.

Upgrading

Preparing and tweaking your Blog

After installing the module, you have to attach the Blog style sheet to the page template you want to use the blog on. In order to do that select Layout -> Stylesheets from the administrator main menu. Look for "Module: Blogs Made Simple" and click on the "CSS" icon that can be found on the same row. The next screen lets you select a page template. This should be the same template that you used for the page on which you decided to show your blog.

The blog needs to know which of your pages is the main blog page. You can combine blogs all over the place, but the idea is to have a main blog page. Go to your main blog page by choosing the following: MainMenu -> Content -> Pages, and edit a page. Select the options tab of that page. The "Page Alias" value on that page should be equal to the "CMS alias for root-blogpage" value in the "Settings" tab in the Blogs Made Simple module.

Note:::>>In some installations you will find that all the options will open at once under Blog Manager. Page Alias will be down towards the bottom below several different templates for different blog actions. Then in the Content Page you have chosen for the Blog be sure you paste in {cms_module module='Blogs' params}, as the help section indicated.***--CAESONIA--***

Styling your Blog

Use the stylesheet, or create your own. I think this should be self explanatory, but I can add more later as time permits.

FAQ

Using the files under development

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