Goal
Implement a simple template / set of templates to enable blogging with STK/Magnolia
Motivation
Blog functionality is often asked for on RFP's. While we don't see Magnolia as a blogging platform per se, the infrastructure we provide out of the box should make it almost trivial to provide blog functionality, that to some extend might even supersede some of the existing options.
It could also be useful for our own bloggers, or used as a system to provide blog space for the community once we have a proper forge.
Functionality Delta
| Functionality | covered by |
|---|---|
| create a blog entry | standard Magnolia page creation |
| edit blog entry | standard Magnolia content editing & paragraphs |
| list of recent blogs | STK (teaser lists) |
| commenting | STK / Commenting |
| list of latest comments | STK / Commenting |
| RSS feeds | RSS Aggregation module |
| archive | use paginated list of blog entries |
| social bookmarking | STK |
| calendar | STK |
| tags | Categorization Module |
| search | standard Magnolia |
| security, administration & all the other goodies | standard Magnolia |
| Missing Functionality | Status |
|---|---|
| trackback & ping | out of scope for first version |
Status
Teresa has done a prototype for a recent demo; this is working but not yet what I [BK] want. A wire frame has been attached to this page that describes what it should look like. The wire frame is done exclusively using existing paragraphs or stuff from the STK html prototype. No specific new design would be necessary, however, we should make the templates reside on a top level (multi-site support !) as a blog generally looks better without being embedded in a corporate site (we don't want all the menu entries etc).
Next steps
As soon as someone has time, it would be nice to see this template(s) come together. Please also document your steps, either in daily blog entries or otherwise, as the goal is also to put together a tutorial (Antti) that shows how to create your own blog system using Magnolia.
To Be Decided
- should the blog module be part of standard STK or its own module?
Comments (1)
Feb 19, 2010
Teresa Miyar says:
Currently the blog is a module that depends on stk, I would like to keep it this...Currently the blog is a module that depends on stk, I would like to keep it this way as it would use its own site configuration and probably its own theme