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Hi all,
I needed a plugin to retrieve all my blogs information like title, url, description. Since I couldn’t find it, I wrote it myself.
This is particularly handy if you use blogs as website sections.
Please bear in mind this is my first attempt in making a plugin for EE and also my first try at PHP.
so any feedback welcome!
There is an optional parameter “hide” where you can tell which blog_id’s to HIDE from the list.
eg.
{exp:retrieve_blogs hide="4" parse="inward"}
{exp:weblog:info weblog="{blog_name}"}
{blog_title}
{blog_description}
{/exp:weblog:info}
{/exp:retrieve_blogs}
or
{exp:retrieve_blogs hide="1,2" parse="inward"}
{exp:weblog:info weblog="{blog_name}"}
{blog_title}
{blog_description}
{/exp:weblog:info}
{/exp:retrieve_blogs}oeps 🙄 wrong forum, I see there’s a plugin development section… my mistake
Hi there psykik,
Well done on the plugin, great idea!
Perhaps it might be nice to be able to allow people to use the weblog names instead of the id’s? I for one know I never remember the id numbers but can always remember the short name of the weblog.
Just a thought though.
Well done on what looks like a great first plugin.
Best wishes,
Mark
well thanks Mark 😉 I used your retrieve status as an example 😉 so a bit of credit goes to you as well 😉
yes post all feedback and wished features here. i was also thinking about a parameter “show_inactive” so you can filter out blogs that do not have the “open” status.
grts,
I used your retrieve status as an example 😉 so a bit of credit goes to you as well 😉
Yup I thought you might have done! 😉 Noticed from the layout 😉
yes post all feedback and wished features here. i was also thinking about a parameter “show_inactive” so you can filter out blogs that do not have the “open” status. grts,
Yes I think that short weblog names would be a good one. Don’t know if that should be instead of the ids or alongside? Perhaps a parameter which says which to use and then the hide parameter could either have ids or names?
The show_inactive parameter would be great too! 😊
Keep up the great work, I’m sure people will definitely find a need for this one.
Best wishes,
Mark
Great plugin, seeing many use more than one weblog, getting them in a list should be as easy as listing categories.
Well done. Am trying to make a list with links automatically. I use weblog short_name for tempate groups, but can’t seem to get a tag to work for url? Maybe too early in am…
Duh! blog_url everything else is named weblog_something, 2 coffee’s later n solved.
Now to get it to not show empty?