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Creating a Blog with Scrawl
This How-to applies to: Any version.
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:
- Create a new folder to contain your blog
- Inside this folder, create a Collection/Smart Folder to serve as the homepage of your blog.
- Create the following query criteria for your Collection/Smart Folder:
- Item Type: Blog Entry
- State: Published
- Sort on: Effective Date (reverse)
- Navigate back to your new blog folder, and use the Display menu to select your Collection/Smart Folder the default item for the folder
- Use the Display menu to select Blog View as the default view for the Collection/Smart Folder
- (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
Own reply
Posted by
Yves Moisan
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February 20, 2008 - 21:56
I guess what I'm asking is the content item description + some lines of the body. I just checked Martin's set up and only the description (and title of course) is sent along to Planet Plone. I guess it would be trickier to also send a few sentences of the text, but I just saw an example in the ZMI! I hit an edit tab of some content object and I saw the first few lines of it with an ellipsis :-)
Good idea, but...
Posted by
Jon Stahl
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February 20, 2008 - 22:03
... unfortunately it would require subclassing or modifying Plone's News Item content type to have a 'teaserText' class, which Scrawl is expressly not going to do. That is a good idea for a future release of Plone, though... all content types should support such a function, IMHO.
We could suppress "read more" if there is nothing more to read, though. I'll create a ticket for that. You could probably just twiddle the view template in the meantime, though.
We could suppress "read more" if there is nothing more to read, though. I'll create a ticket for that. You could probably just twiddle the view template in the meantime, though.
Nothing more to read
Posted by
Yves Moisan
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February 20, 2008 - 22:07
Is it not the case that there is never anything more to read, since the whole text is always shown ?
Thanx for your suggestions.
Thanx for your suggestions.
Description and body text
Posted by
Jon Stahl
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February 20, 2008 - 23:26
With Scrawl 1.0-beta2, we show only the Description if it exists, otherwise we show the body text.
Yep
Posted by
Yves Moisan
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February 21, 2008 - 15:34
Indeed and it works fine thanx. I usually fill the description of folders, but not of non-folderish objects like documents as I feel a description usually is redundant for objects that have a body type :-(. I guess the help comment should read "Summary of your blog to appear as a lead to your full post; leaving this field empty means the full text of the post will appear rather than a short lead" or something along these lines rather than "A short summary of the content."
Thanx for the tip.
Thanx for the tip.
Abbreviate text
Nice! I wonder if there is a trick to avoid the "read more" to appear when all the text is there anyhow :-). In fact, I'd like the opposite : limit the number of lines to some number (e.g. 10) so that the "read more" really means something and people can see many posts at a glance. Is there a settings somewhere in your view or blog type that I missed ?
There must be a trick for people like Martin to show up on planet.plone.org nice and short while others seem like they copy-pasted their whole post text (which I find annoying, personally).
Cheers,
Yves