Creating a Blog with Scrawl

by Jon Stahl — last modified Jun 17, 2009 07:41 PM
How to create a blog with Scrawl

Scrawl is a lightweight blogging product for Plone that lets you create a simple, elegant blog that makes the best use possible of Plone's built-in features.

To create a simple blog with Scrawl, install Scrawl, then perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new folder to contain your blog
  2. Inside this folder, create a Collection/Smart Folder to serve as the homepage of your blog.
  3. Create the following query criteria for your Collection/Smart Folder:
    Item Type: Blog Entry
    State: Published
    Sort on: Effective Date (reverse)
  4. Navigate back to your new blog folder, and use the Display menu to select your Collection/Smart Folder the default item for the folder
  5. Use the Display menu to select Blog View as the default view for the Collection/Smart Folder
  6. (Optional) Use the "Add New" menu to restrict the addable content types in your blog folder to Blog Entry, Smart Folder and maybe Image, File or Page if you want to be able to add these to your blog

 

That's it!  You're ready to blog! Add and publish Blog Entries in your blog folder