Blog Node
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The WebPal blog node has developed in over a period of time in tandem with the web 2.0 craze. This full featured node now contains a variety of features which includes:
This package requires a dbconnector node to be present.
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Screen Shots
Blog Article
Blog Index
Article List
wpBlog
This node contains the list of all articles written by Webpal users. There are plenty of attributes that can customize the blog however needed.
Where to use this node
Attributes
| Name | Use | Value | Help |
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| name | required | Value to identify the blog node | |
| list-articles | oneof | all, 1 most recent, 2 most recent, 3 most recent, 4 most recent, 5 most recent, 6 most recent, 7 most recent, 8 most recent, 9 most recent, 10 most recent | Determines the number of aticles to display on the page |
| article-list-format | oneof | full articles, list titles only | Determines how the articles will appear in the page. Full Articles will display everything and list titles only will display just the titles as links to the full articles |
| archive-articles | oneof | by-month, none | Determines whether the articles should be archived by month or not archived at all |
| show-tag-cloud | oneof | yes, no | Determines whether a tag cloud will be generated |
| show-archive-articles | oneof | yes, no | If this is set to no will not display the Archive Articles links and create a file archive-articles-list.html with a list of all the archived month links. This is very useful if you want the archive links to appear somewhere else in the design instead of the default area |
| allow-comments | oneof | yes, no | Determines if comments are allowed on the blog or not |
| comment-message | optional | This will appear before the comment form if specified | |
| add-captcha | oneof | no, yes | If this is set to yes, captcha wil be added to the form. Please note that the captcha code needs to be manually uploaded to the website |
| profanity-moderation | oneof | post immediately, wait for approval | If wait for approval is chosen, the code will check the comment for any profanity words. Otherwise will not check if any profanity is in the comment. |
| comment-moderation | oneof | post immediately, wait for approval | If wait for approval is chosen, the code will not display the comment untill the Web Master approves it in the database setting for all articles. |
| comment-notification-email | optional | This is where you specify an email address of the person who wishes to be notified everytime a comment is posted | |
| allow-mark-article-inappropriate | oneof | no, yes | Give the users the abiliy to suggest that an article is inappropriate |
| allow-mark-comment-inappropriate | oneof | no, yes | Give the users the abiliy to suggest that a comment is inappropriate |
| inappropriate-notify-email | optional | This is where you specify an email address of the person who wishes to be notified everytime an article/comment is marked as inappropriate. | |
| misc-action | optional | Determines the text to be added as an Action. Works in conjunction with misc-action-link | |
| misc-action-link | optional | Determines the link of the misc action. Works in conjunction with misc-action | |
| include-social-bookmarking | oneof | no, yes | If set to yes a row of social bookmarking links will appear |
Sub Nodes
| Name | Type | Help |
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| article | wpBlogArticle | The is a node that creates a blog article |
| terms | wpHtml | If terms are specified a file of the Terms and Conditions will be created. Also when a user post a comment they must agree to the Terms and Conditions |
wpBlogArticle
This node is what a Webpal user can use to generate their Blog Article. There is the possibility to allow comments to be written about the article.
Where to use this node
Attributes
| Name | Use | Value | Help |
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| name | required | Value to identify the article in the database | |
| allow-comments | oneof | use blog settings, yes, no | Determines if comments are allowed for this article. Use blog settings will selectthe value in the blog node for this attribute |
| comment-moderation | oneof | use blog settings, post immediately, wait for approval | If wait for approval is chosen, the code will not display the comment untill the Web Master approves it in the database setting for specific article. |
| author | optional | The author of this article, which will display on the article | |
| date | optional | The date the article was posted. Must be in format yyyymmdd (all numeric values) | |
| lang | oneof | any, en, fr, de, es | sets the language of this article. "any" will make the article appear in all languages. ex: "fr" will make the article appear only on the french version of the site. |
| comment-notification-email | optional | This is where you specify an email address of the person who wishes to be notified when a comment is posted for this article |
Sub Nodes
| Name | Type | Help |
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| title | wpString | The title of the article |
| text | wpHtml | The text for the article |
| tags | wpBlogTags | A node to specify what tags are associated with this article |
wpBlogTags
This node is what generates the Tag Cloud. When a tag is used mutiple times that tag's font will be larger then the others.
Where to use this node
Sub Nodes
| Name | Type | Help |
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| tag | wpString | The tag(s) that is associated with this article. This is what generated the Tag Cloud |
