9.2 Blog

In BlueSpice 4, the extensions bundle BlueSpiceSocial provided functionality such as blogs, discussions, and user profile info. In BlueSpice 5, these extensions are replaced by SimpleBlogPage, which introduces a blogging system with commenting and voting features. In addition, this extension provides a bulit-in special page ArticlesHome for creating blog posts.

Accessing the blogs

The wiki provides a built-in blog named "General". Its blog posts are listed on the special page Special:ArticlesHome.

Entrypoint

Administrators can show or hide a link to this page in the main navigation Entrypoints.

New blog entry

Users with edit-permissions in the namespace blog can create a new blog entry. Each blog entry is a standard wiki page.

To create a blog entry users can:

Click Create new blog post on the page All blog posts.
Click the wiki's (+ plus)-button and select New blog post.

All blog posts are created in the namespace Blog. The name of the blog is the parent page and the blog post itself is a subpage of the parent page. The blog page for Employee referral program in the blog General is therefore created as:

Blog:General/Employee_referral_program

To create a new blog, create the necessary page in the namespace blog:

Blog:Marketing

Blog post elements

Each blog post has the following elements:

A post heading that links to the wiki page for the post.
A star-toggle button to put the post on one own's watchlist.
The username and date of the last edit.
The content of the post.

The sort order of blog posts on the standard blog pages cannot be influenced. All blog posts are sorted by last edit date. You can, however, create your own inline queries, to show the titles of the blog entries by a different sort order such as the creation date or the blog entry title.

User blogs

Users can create their own blog posts. To create and edit their personal blog, users select the link My blog from their user menu.

User blog pages are created in the User_blog namespace as subpages of the user name:

User_blog:WikiSysop/New_helpdesk_has_been_published

User blog posts are marked with the specific tag User blog so that they are easily recognized.

Note:Users can only edit their own user blog pages. Trying to move a blog page to a different user's blog results in an error.

Displaying blog titles

You can list

FAQ

Is it possible to sort the blog entries differently? However, you can create lists that show the blog titles in a different order.

Technical Reference: SimpleBlogPage

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