tag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:/discussions/how-do-i/21122-attempting-to-make-a-blog-postCascade CMS: Discussion 2016-02-26T21:54:44Ztag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/390444352016-01-29T21:58:03Z2016-01-29T21:58:03ZAttempting to make a blog post<div><p>I'm attempting to write a blog system for our institution, and
I'm wanting to make it as user friendly as possible. What I would
like to do, ideally, is have an asset factory item that allows a
user to click something like "New Blog Post". It would have spaces
for them to list the title, author, upload an image, and write the
blog post. I'd like it to make a folder that has the image and the
page inside it. Is something like this possible?</p></div>webadmintag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/390444352016-01-29T22:01:56Z2016-01-29T22:01:56ZAttempting to make a blog post<div><p>Hi,</p>
<p>This type of setup is definitely possible. We actually have a
couple of example Sites you can download and import into your
Cascade instance. I believe they should be able to offer a good
starting point:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.cascadeexchange.com/resources/blog-site.php">http://www.cascadeexchange.com/resources/blog-site.php</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cascadeexchange.com/resources/news-site.php">http://www.cascadeexchange.com/resources/news-site.php</a>
(this is a news site, but a very similar concept)</li>
</ul>
<p>We also have a <a href="http://www.cascadeexchange.com/resources/blog-webinar.php">webinar</a>
available for you to watch that discusses setting up blogging in
Cascade.</p>
<p>Please let me know if you have any questions.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p></div>Ryan Griffithtag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/390444352016-02-05T20:18:33Z2016-02-05T20:18:33ZAttempting to make a blog post<div><p>I've ended up doing a more generic system... the blog posts you
were showing me look like they're very concentrated on having
comments, and we're intentionally trying to prevent comments on the
site. I've got a rough outline of it now, but what I'd like to do
is be able to read variables out of the address of the page, so
that I don't have to make a new page for every year that we have.
Basically, what I want to do is to read a year variable out of the
URL, and then read the associated index for that year. Is there a
way to do this programatically, or do I need to manually choose the
index for each page?</p></div>webadmintag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/390444352016-02-09T14:05:02Z2016-02-09T14:05:02ZAttempting to make a blog post<div><p>Hi,</p>
<blockquote>
<p>the blog posts you were showing me look like they're very
concentrated on having comments, and we're intentionally trying to
prevent comments on the site</p>
</blockquote>
<p>While the commenting is in there, it is only a small component
of these sites and should be pretty easy to remove. I believe the
one example site uses Disqus, which I think is just a code snippet
added to the pages.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I've got a rough outline of it now, but what I'd like to do is
be able to read variables out of the address of the page, so that I
don't have to make a new page for every year that we have.
Basically, what I want to do is to read a year variable out of the
URL, and then read the associated index for that year. Is there a
way to do this programatically, or do I need to manually choose the
index for each page?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Generally, there are index pages for the year and month landings
which will list out those specific articles. This is required if
you would like for your users to be able to navigate to those
landings (e.g. <code>www.example.com/news/2016</code> would load
the year landing for 2016 that lists articles for the year).</p>
<p>Please let me know if you have any questions.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p></div>Ryan Griffith