New Extension: Weblog Extended
Development and Programming
This is my first ExpressionEngine extension. I’ve created this, because I needed some features on the control panel, that don’t come with the original version.
The list of the new features added by this extension:
* Nested Weblogs
* Now you can set the show order of the Weblogs
* You can enable/disable a Weblog
* FCK support
There’s a module too, where you can use the new features implemented by the extension. The module extends the Weblog module, and adds the capability to list your weblogs.
An short example:
{exp:weblog_extended:weblogs}
{title}
{/exp:weblog_extended:weblogs}Another one:
{exp:weblog_extended:weblogs id='menu' style='nested'}
<a href="http://{url}" title='{desccription}'>{title}</a>
{/exp:weblog_extended:weblogs}I’ll create a complete documentation soon as possible. Take a look on the extension, enjoy it, and please, give me your feedback.
You can download it here: http://www.mozartpetter.com/weblog-extended-my-first-expressionengine-extension
Some screenshots here: http://www.mozartpetter.com/weblog-extended-my-first-expressionengine-extension
just great 😊
Hi!
I am new to EE, and this extension seems to do something that I am looking for. I would like to show the entries in edit page grouped by weblogs/categories, just like the weblogs are nested in this image: http://www.mozartpetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/weblog_management_screen.png
If “Web” and “Print” were entry names, then the edit page would display them indented under the “Portfolio” weblog. If “Web” and “Print” were weblogs, as it is in the image, then the entries would be indented under them. Something like:
Portfolio Web Entry 1 Entry 4 Print Entry 2 Entry 3
Is this feasible with this extension? If no, could someone point me to some way of achieving this, changing some EE settings or using a third party extension, to have a more intuitive edit page?
– Regards,
Jeferson Oliveira Brazil
Jefferson, Actually, this feature is not available in my extension, but I can add this feature in the next build. 😊 I’ll work on the edit page soon. If you have some more needs, please, tell me.
Regards,
Mozart Petter Brazilian too! 😊
im getting error after installing extension
MySQL ERROR:
Error Number: 1142
Description: SELECT command denied to user ‘user’@’localhost’ for table ‘COLUMNS’
Query: SELECT COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE COLUMN_NAME = ‘blog_parent’ AND TABLE_NAME = ‘exp_weblogs’ AND TABLE_SCHEMA = ‘user’
Nor i can access modul epage any more..i get this error
MySQL ERROR:
Error Number: 1054
Description: Unknown column ‘blog_parent’ in ‘where clause’
Query: SELECT weblog_id, blog_title FROM exp_weblogs WHERE blog_parent = 0 AND blog_status = ‘enabled’ ORDER BY blog_order
Pretty handy! It does seem to conflict with the Edit Menu extension though. So you can’t get the edit page when you select anything from the Edit tab dropdown. Instead it goes to a blank publish page.
Great extension, but it does, as mentioned, conflict with edit menu.
The conflict with the Edit Menu extension was fixed. You can access the updated version at http://projects.mozartpetter.com/projects/show/eewextended or by the SVN http://svn2.mozartpetter.com/ee/weblogextended/
The weblogs are now displayed under the Edit tab, but they do not acquire the same (new) order which I assigned successfully to the weblogs for use under Publish.
russlipton, the weblogs displayed under the Edit tab is a feature of the Edit Menu extension. I can add this feature on the Weblog Extended, but it will conflict with the Edit Menu extension.
What you guys think?
russlipton, the weblogs displayed under the Edit tab is a feature of the Edit Menu extension. I can add this feature on the Weblog Extended, but it will conflict with the Edit Menu extension. What you guys think?
You mean enable same function as Edit Menu except it’ll show the new order? That sounds good to me.
@mozart - how will synchronizing the order of the weblogs on the Publish and the Edit tabs conflict with the other add-on?
Im in favour of having one extension do both jobs, so if you can add an edit menu as well as publish to yours then i am happy to drop the ez edit menu extension.
Also, i couldnt see how to do this. I needed a way of creating a group of weblogs without having to create a specific weblog for it.
Example, I have three web logs, “News - North America”, “News - Europe” and “News - Rest of the World”. I wanted to group them together, the only way i could see to do this was to create a weblog called “News” and set the three weblogs as children of “News”. Is there or could you add a way of flagging weblogs as ones you cant click on to publish or edit. e.g. “disable click” option.
Hope that made sense.