Search not displaying results when searching for blog articles including forward-slash

Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:29:16 +1200

Hi team, I'm not sure if this is the Blog modules fault at all but my Silverstripe site isn't returning blog articles that include results with a forward slash in the title or content. Specifically the query is

AS/NZS

The article turns up as a result if I search with any other word or sentence that's included, but not if I specifically search for the above query.

I have

FulltextSearchable::enable();

enabled.

Is this something common with Silverstripe search? Any chance of shedding some light on the subject? Cheers

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Blog page not adding

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:03:36 +1200

I am trying to add a blog to a SilverStripe site using the Blog Module.

The package seemed to install fine via

composer require silverstripe/blog

and dev/build returned no errors. The ‘Blog’ page type is also available from the ‘Add page’ menu.

After adding a ‘Blog’ page, the site doesn’t redirect to http://localhost:8888/example/admin/pages/edit/show and simply remains on the http://localhost:8888/example/admin/pages/add/ page.
From what I can tell, the only result from this action is an ‘ARCHIVED’ page being added to the sitetree.

Have ?flush=all etc as per other suggestions to no avail and other page types are still being added fine.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?

Currently using:

"silverstripe/cms": "3.6.1",
"silverstripe/framework": "3.6.1",
"phpunit/PHPUnit": "~3.7@stable"
"silverstripe/blog": "2.4.6"

[Edit 13/09/2017]

While simply adding a 'Blog' page produces no observable errors, adding a generic 'Page' and changing the page type to 'Blog' produces the following error in the php_error.log:

PHP Warning: require_once(/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/blog/_config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/framework/core/manifest/ConfigManifest.php on line 141

PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/blog/_config.php' (include_path='/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/vendor/phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects:/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/vendor/phpunit/php-token-stream:/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/vendor/phpunit/php-code-coverage:/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/vendor/phpunit/phpunit:/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/vendor/symfony/yaml:.:/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/framework:/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/framework/parsers:/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/framework/thirdparty:.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.30/lib/php') in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/example/framework/core/manifest/ConfigManifest.php on line 141

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Blog module breaking silverstripe search

Mon, 10 Jul 2017 18:21:45 +1200

Hello,

I have a website running Silverstripe(3.6.1) with the blog module (silverstripe-blog-camfindlay-patch-1).
I get the following error when I use silverstripe search. This errors occurs no matter what you type in the search box. I have no idea why this is happening.

[Recoverable Error] Argument 1 passed to PaginatedList::__construct() must implement interface SS_List, null given, called in X :\path-to-website\silverstripe-blog-camfindlay-patch-1\code\model\Blog.php on line 965 and defined
GET /path-to-website/about-us/blog/SearchForm?Search=Application&action_results=

Line 26 in X:\path\to\website\framework\core\PaginatedList.php

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Re: Blog Headlines on HomePage with SilverStripe 3.1.x

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:27:58 +1200

So you need to debug the problem.

________________________________________________
goldenslot

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Re: Display recent blog posts on homepage?

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:27:01 +1200

If you want your current latestBlogEntry function to work, try returning blogpost rather than the process.

gclub

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Re: Blog Module - Can not add a blog post 500 Internal Server Error

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:26:12 +1200

Thank you infomation.

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Re: Display list of blog posts, filtered by specific category

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:25:08 +1200

I am having the same issue. Any help would be great! Thanks.

__________________________________________________________
แทงบอล sbobet

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Re: New Blog Posts - cannot longer Publish or Delete

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:23:56 +1200

Can't post blogs, nor can I delete them.

I may go to the IRC channel as you suggest; I am completely bewildered....

______________________________________________________________________
sbobet มือถือ

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Re: Multiple Blog Templates

Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:18:47 +1200

Thank you infomation.

สมัคร sbobet

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Re: How to set up the Blog Module?

Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:15:47 +1200

after that, type in blog, its the first one to come up, use that to install a blog module.

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Re: How to set up the Blog Module?

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:09:21 +1200

Been looking for some resources myself. Found these:

User Guide
Developer Guide

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Re: Show future blog posts

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:36:41 +1200

In case someone else in wondering, just remove the following line from BlogFilter.php & BlogPostFilter.php

->where(sprintf('"PublishDate" < \'%s\'', Convert::raw2sql(SS_Datetime::now())));

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Show future blog posts

Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:31:04 +1200

Hello,

If I make a blog post and set it's date to someday in the future, it will only be posted on that date. I want it to have a future date but be displayed to public area because I'm using the Blog module as Events so visitors need to be able to see Upcoming Events.

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Re: How Do I Delete Tag Cloud?

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:06:52 +1300

Is anyone able to tell me how to remove tags. IE I want to remove some of the tags. Thanks!

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Re: Multiple Blog Templates

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 02:22:04 +1300

Hi @SilverstripeLearner,

This will only work if you only have two blogs

Event

public function getEvents() {
return Blog::get()->filter('isEventHolder' => '1')->first();
}

News

public function getNews() {
return Blog::get()->filter('isEventHolder' => '0')->first();
}

Put both of these functions into your Page.php or Homepage.php

Then in your template you can do

Events

<% with getEvents %>
<% loop Children.Sort('PublishDate','DESC').Limit(3) %>
<a href="{$Link}">$Title</a>
<% end_loop %>
<% end_with %>

News

<% with getEvents %>
<% loop Children.Sort('PublishDate','DESC').Limit(3) %>
<a href="{$Link}">$Title</a>
<% end_loop %>
<% end_with %>

Thanks
Michael

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Re: Multiple Blog Templates

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:39:12 +1300

Hello @Michael,

Thanks for your reply, I was short on time and what I've finally done to solve this is:
I created 2 templates: News and Events and both extend the Blog and it works fine. But now I have another problem, I want to display on my Homepage,
on the left side posts from News and on the right side posts from Events. I filtered the blog posts by their parent's ID but I hardcoded the ID. Any
idea how I dynamically get those ID's ?

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Re: Multiple Blog Templates

Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:19:40 +1300

Hi @SilverstripeLearner,

You can extend Blog to have a checkbox to switch the layout

<?php
class BlogExtension extends DataExtension {
private static $db = array(
'isEventHolder' => 'Boolean'
);
public function updateCMSFields(FieldList $fields) {
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Main', CheckboxField::create('isEventHolder', 'Event Layout'),'Content');
}
}

config.yml

Blog:
extensions:
- BlogExtension

Run a dev/build by visiting yourdomain.com/dev/build

Then have 2 Includes

BlogLayout.ss and EventLayout.ss

Then in the Blog template you can have an if statement

<% if isEventHolder == 1 %>
<% include EventLayout %>
<% else %>
<% include BlogLayout %>
<% end_if %>

Thanks
Michael

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Multiple Blog Templates

Fri, 24 Feb 2017 01:03:11 +1300

I just installed Blog Module and set up my first blog called "News" and now I need to set up another blog called "Events". For the News blog I modified the layout straight into the blog files but now that I need a different layout for "Events" blog, I understand that I need another approach. I rad something about making an SuperBlogHolder and having BlogHolder just pass the $Layout but I didn't really understand how that works.

I would appreciate any response, thanks and have a great day !

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Featured Images included in the RSS feed

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:18:53 +1300

I am currently using v2.4.2 blog module. I have noticed that the RSS feed generated by blog page doesn't include the blogpost featured images. The featured image can be loaded on the blogpost page through the CMS.
How difficult would it be for the feed to include the featured images.

Cheers

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ArchiveWidget: Grouping by Months then Years

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 01:29:07 +1300

Forgive me if this is obvious, but I couldn't find the answer if it's been posted before. I've created one site with SS and it was a few years ago, so I've forgotten a lot about it!

I've got a blog with a sidebar containing the ArchiveWidget. Currently it contains one long list of Months (December 2016, November 2016, ... January 2014). Is there a way to truncate the years for every year older than the current year?
Something like:
- December 2016
- November 2016
- ...
- January 2016
> 2015
> 2014

It would be best if the generated UL could be split into separate ULs for each year; that way I could use Jquery to collapse/display subsequent years (like an accordion). Thanks in advance.
Paul

EDIT: I realise I'm using an old version of the Blog Module. I'll look into upgrading and see if that solves my problem!

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Re: Adding fields to BlogCategory and BlogTag

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 04:57:50 +1300

I'm 99.9% certain this has something to do with BlogCategory being passed through Injector and renamed to BlogCategoryLinkCustomisation.

I needed to extend BlogTag in the same way so tested with the process detailed above and that worked fine.

So, I then added the following to config.yml:

...
Injector:
BlogCategory:
class: BlogCategoryLinkCustomisation
BlogCategoryLinkCustomisation:
extensions:
- BlogCategoryExtension
BlogTag:
extensions:
- BlogTagExtension
...

When I run /dev/build no fields are created for BlogCategory, but when I view the BlogCategory admin form I do have 3 extra fields ... which is some form of progress. Any advice on how I extend BlogCategory when it's been passed through Injector?

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Re: Adding fields to BlogCategory and BlogTag

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 04:13:08 +1300

Realised I should be doing this via /mysite/code/Extensions instead, so tried the following:

Created /mysite/code/Extensions/BlogCategoryExtension.php:

<?php
class BlogCategoryExtension extends DataExtension {

   private static $db = array(
      'Description' => 'Varchar(255)',
      'MetaTitle' => 'Varchar(255)',
      'MetaDescription' => 'Varchar(255)',
   );

   public function updateCMSFields(FieldList $fields) {
    $fields->push(new TextField('Description'));
    $fields->push(new TextField('MetaTitle'));
    $fields->push(new TextField('MetaDescription'));
   }

}

I then added the following to /mysite/_config/config.yml:

...
BlogCategory:
extensions:
- BlogCategoryExtension
...

Then ran /dev/build.

No field was added to the database table and when I try and access the blog part of silverstripe's admin I just get a grey screen. If I remove the lines I added to config.yml and run /dev/build again all returns to normal.

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Adding fields to BlogCategory and BlogTag

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:41:29 +1300

Hi,

I'm trying to add extra fields to BlogCategory, but after adding them to the $db array and running dev/build no new fields are created.

If I add a new field to /blog/code/model/BlogPost.php::db and run dev/build then the field is created as expected.

Is there some special build that I need to run to get dev/build to recognise new config changes in /blog/code/model/BlogCategory.php.

The site uses Silverstripe 3.2.

Thanks, Paul

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Re: PostSummary.ss, odd markup in post-image paragraph

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:52:42 +1300

The missing attribute name for

Blog.ReadMoreAbout

was fixed by https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-blog/commit/bb1484b45e3bad27b10b47a8973da65c54245a68 by the addition of title=.

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Looping over Blog Posts of a Certain Category giving duplicated results.

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:36:44 +1300

Hi,
so I am trying to show two blog posts of a certain category on one of my page templates. I have managed to write a function that pulls in all blog posts and makes them accessible via the page and then I have the below code on the template to render out just 2 posts with the correct category of "Business-Featured". which works, however, it seems to be running the loop twice as it is bringing in both posts twice. can anyone see where I have gone wrong?

      <% if $RecentNews %>
         <% loop $RecentNews %>
            <% loop $Categories %>
               <% if $Title ="Business-Featured" %>
                  <% loop blogPosts.Limit(2) %>
                     <div class="col-md-6">
                        $FeaturedImage.CroppedImage(555, 144)
                        <div class="post-preview">
                           <h3><a href="$Link">$Title</a></h3>
                           <p>$Summary <a href="$Link" style="display: inline;">Read More...</a></p>
                        </div>
                     </div>
                  <% end_loop %>
               <% end_if %>
            <% end_loop %>
         <% end_loop %>
      <% end_if %>

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Looping over Blog Posts of a Certain Category giving duplicated results.

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:36:41 +1300

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Widget Tab not showing on blog pages

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:39:59 +1200

Hi there

I have recently upgraded my site from 2.4 to 3.4, was a bit of a nightmare when it came to the blog module. I thankfully have the blog posts showing but am not able to add any widgets or add them to my sidebar. I have downloaded and installed the lasted versions manually ( a few times just in case) and run dev/build. All the tables are there in the db but I am not sure why the widgets are not showing up? Any ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated

Denise

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Rename Blog SideBar headings

Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:58:44 +1200

Hi there I have a Technical Issue I am trying to solve.
We have a website using Silverstripe v3.4 CMS.
We have installed the blog module and are using it on two pages. ‘News’ and ‘Projects’.
On the Projects page only we want to change the headings on the Blog Tag Widget and Blog Categories Widget.
From ‘Categories’ to ‘Facility Type’ and ‘Tags’ to ‘Location’.
The widget headings are located in the WidgetHolder.SS file below. In $Title variable

<div class="WidgetHolder $ClassName<% if FirstLast %> $FirstLast<% end_if %>">
<% if Title %><h3>$Title</h3><% end_if %>
$Content
</div>

What I was tiring to do was to have a If statement in the WidgetHolder.ss file to override the $Title variable.
But my problem is I can’t access the default page placeholder $Title variable which would tell me I am on the Projects page.

Cheers Stuart

Hi Stuart,

As suggested on the phone, you could try extending the Blog pagetype, calling the new one something like ProjectBlog, and configure the Projects page to use this new pagetype. You will then be able to use the $ClassName variable to determine whether you are on a ProjectBlog page or not. Here’s a quick example of how to extend the Blog pagetype (put this in a new file named something along the lines of mysite/code/ProjectBlog.php):

<?php

class ProjectBlog extends Blog { }

class ProjectBlog_Controller extends Blog_Controller { }

I hope this helps!

Thanks,
Garion
—
Garion Herman | Support Developer
SilverStripe
http://silverstripe.com/

I have created a new ProjectsBlog page type ok.
But I am a bit confused on where to use the $ClassName variable that Garion has suggested. I tried using it in the WidgetHolder.SS file.
It will display in my page sidebar the text words 'BlogCaegoriesWidget' for Categories and 'BlogTagsWidget' for Tags

Can anyone help please
Stuart

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weirdness with pagination links (solved)

Tue, 09 Aug 2016 01:44:14 +1200

I'm using SS 3.4 and Blog 2.4.2

the Pagination.SS include is appearing as it should but the links have:
sitename.com/blog/category/blog/category/cat-name?start=20
or
sitename.com/blog/blog?start=20

it's duplicating the root section of the URL when it's generating the $Link
does anybody know where this is made?

I'm guessing it uses a bunch of SiteTree 'URLSegment' and concats them together somewhere?

cheers
Haydn

I had to put a / in Pagination.ss and it worked:

<a href="/$Link">$PageNum</a>

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Re: Related Posts

Sun, 07 Aug 2016 02:50:22 +1200

Hi,
i want to know how to use this snippet when we don't know that customer use an exactly tag or category?(the customers adds new tags everyday)
what we must use instead "%news%" ?!?

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MSSQL Query Error

Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:41:26 +1200

Hi,

I've recently installed this blog module onto a project I'm working on which uses MSSQL as the database. After created the Blog page I get a DB error:

SELECT DISTINCT TOP 15 "PublishDate" IS NULL AS "_SortColumn0", "SiteTree"."ClassName", "SiteTree"."LastEdited", "SiteTree"."Created", "SiteTree"."URLSegment", "SiteTree"."Title", "SiteTree"."MenuTitle", "SiteTree"."Content", "SiteTree"."MetaDescription", "SiteTree"."ExtraMeta", "SiteTree"."ShowInMenus", "SiteTree"."ShowInSearch", "SiteTree"."Sort", "SiteTree"."HasBrokenFile", "SiteTree"."HasBrokenLink", "SiteTree"."ReportClass", "SiteTree"."CanViewType", "SiteTree"."CanEditType", "SiteTree"."Locale", "SiteTree"."DesiredPublishDate", "SiteTree"."DesiredUnPublishDate", "SiteTree"."PublishOnDate", "SiteTree"."UnPublishOnDate", "SiteTree"."ProvideComments", "SiteTree"."ModerationRequired", "SiteTree"."CommentsRequireLogin", "SiteTree"."InheritSideBar", "SiteTree"."PublicHistory", "SiteTree"."ShareTokenSalt", "SiteTree"."ContentReviewType", "SiteTree"."ReviewPeriodDays", "SiteTree"."NextReviewDate", "SiteTree"."LastEditedByName", "SiteTree"."OwnerNames", "SiteTree"."Version", "SiteTree"."SubsiteID", "SiteTree"."PublishJobID", "SiteTree"."UnPublishJobID", "SiteTree"."WorkflowDefinitionID", "SiteTree"."SideBarID", "SiteTree"."ParentID", "BlogPost"."PublishDate", "BlogPost"."AuthorNames", "BlogPost"."Summary", "BlogPost"."FeaturedImageID", "SiteTree"."ID", CASE WHEN "SiteTree"."ClassName" IS NOT NULL THEN "SiteTree"."ClassName" ELSE N'SiteTree' END AS "RecordClassName" FROM "SiteTree" LEFT JOIN "BlogPost" ON "BlogPost"."ID" = "SiteTree"."ID" WHERE ("SiteTree"."ParentID" = ?) AND ("SiteTree"."ClassName" IN (?, ?)) AND ("SiteTree"."ClassName" IN (?, ?)) AND ("SiteTree"."SubsiteID" IN (0)) AND ("SiteTree"."Locale" = 'en_NZ') ORDER BY "_SortColumn0" DESC, "PublishDate" DESC 42000, 156

The syntax generated isn't correct but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced any issues with running this module on MS SQL, I am using the CWP recipe as well.

Cheers

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Most popular Blog Post

Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:43:47 +1200

Hi,
Can anyone help us with a function that queries blog posts filtered by the most viewed post?
Thanks,

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Re: How to display recent posts in sidebar on Blog page [SOLVED]

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:29:02 +1200

I solved this by adding the following 'RecentNews' function into my code/page.php file

   class Page extends SiteTree
   {
      private static $db = array();

private static $has_one = array();
}

   class Page_Controller extends ContentController
   {
      private static $allowed_actions = array(

'RecentNews'
);

      public function init()
      {
         parent::init();

}

      function HomePage()
      {
         return HomePage::get()->limit(1)->first();
      }

      function ContactPage()
      {
         return ContactPage::get()->limit(1)->first();
      }

      public function RecentNews()
      {
         return BlogPost::get()
            ->sort('PublishDate', 'DESC')
            ->limit(5);
      }

}

Then called it with the following in the BlogSideBar.ss file

<div class='blog-sidebar typography unit size1of4 lastUnit'>
<h3>Recent News</h3>

<% if $RecentNews %>

   <% loop $RecentNews %>

      <div class='archived-article'>
         <p class='date-cat'>
            DATE $PublishDate.format('d.m.Y') /
            <span class="cat-name">
               <% if $Categories %>
                  <% loop $Categories %>
                     $Title
                  <% end_loop %>
               <% end_if %>
            </span>
         </p>
         <h4>$Title</h4>
         <% if $Summary %>
            <p>$Summary</p>
         <% else %>
            <p>$Excerpt.FirstSentence</p>
         <% end_if %>
         <a href='$Link' class='read-more'>
            Read More
         </a>
      </div>

<% end_loop %>

<% else %>

   <p>No recent articles.</p>

<% end_if %>

</div>

With that you will be able to put recent blog posts on any page on your site.

Hope this helps someone out.

Cheers
TobyC

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Removing tabs from blog entry

Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:10:29 +1200

Hi team.

I know what you might be thinking, this has been asked a few times here in this forum.
Problem for me is that none of the answers has worked for me, or maybe I just have not found the right answer.

What I have done.
Ok so, I have extended the Page class to have 4 has_many options;
This has been working fine for me so far. The tabs appear when editing all page types that I need.
I remove the tabs successfully on other page types that i need to remove the tabs I don't want on other page types using the below code / similar code

public function getCMSFields()
{
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();

$fields->removeFieldFromTab('Root.Main', 'Content');
$fields->removeByName('Promos');
$fields->removeByName('Content Block Categories');
$fields->removeByName('Content Blocks');

return $fields;
}

Alright, so that is fine.

I have created an extension to add a few new fields to the blog post, which has worked also, but, here is the annoying part, I cant remove any of these new tabs like above.

public function updateCMSFields(FieldList $fields) {
$fields->removeFieldFromTab('Root','Promos');
$fields->removeByName('Root.Promos');
$fields->remove('Root.Promos');
$fields->remove('Promos');
$fields->addFieldsToTab('blog-admin-sidebar', [
TextField::create('YoutubeShareLink', 'Youtube Share Link'),
DropdownField::create('ShowOnHomePage', 'Show post on home page?')
->setSource(['No','Yes'])
]);
}

You can see by the code above that i have tried a variety of different options to remove the Promos tab, none work, doing them one by one, or all at the same time has no effect at all.
This lead me to think, is the extension firing before the actual blog addon is, maybe it is, maybe it isnt, is this the case? and if so, how can i get it to load later, or is there something super simple that I am missing here?

Is there a better way to remove these tabs?

thanks

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How to display recent posts in sidebar on Blog page [SOLVED]

Sat, 18 Jun 2016 18:44:23 +1200

Hi,

I am trying to display a list of recent posts on the Blog page. I have found some code examples that work on other pages but return zero results on the blog page itself.

I tried installing the widgets extension but that broke my admin panel.

What is the correct place for the RecentPosts function.

Thanks
Toby

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Add 2nd upload field to blog module

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 22:43:55 +1200

Good day all

I am trying to add a second upload field to my blog module but am having trouble doing so...

The main issue i am currently having is that the FeaturedThumbnail does not show in my cms

what i have tried was:

#1
private static $has_one = array(
'FeaturedImage' => 'Image',
'FeaturedThumbnail' => 'Image',
);

public function getCMSFields(){
Requirements::css(BLOGGER_DIR . '/css/cms.css');
Requirements::javascript(BLOGGER_DIR . '/js/cms.js');
$self =& $this;
$this->beforeUpdateCMSFields(function ($fields) use ($self) {
$uploadField = UploadField::create('FeaturedThumbnail', _t('BlogPost.FeaturedThumbnail', 'Featured Thumbnail'));
$uploadField = UploadField::create('FeaturedImage', _t('BlogPost.FeaturedImage', 'Featured Image'));

$fields->insertAfter($summaryHolder, 'FeaturedImage');
$fields->insertAfter($summaryHolder, 'FeaturedThumbnail');

return $fields;
}

#2
// Create a new file in extensions
<?php
class BlogEntryDecorator extends DataExtension {
static $has_one = array(
'FeaturedThumbnail' => 'Image'
);
public function updateCMSFields(FieldList $fields) {
parent::updateCMSFields($fields);
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Main", $FeaturedThumbnail = new UploadField('FeaturedThumbnail'), 'Content');
}
}
// Create add extension in _config
DataObject::add_extension('BlogEntry', 'BlogEntryDecorator');

If anyone can assist in this problem it would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
Skullie

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Re: Displaying blog posts, filtered by specific category & Tag

Sat, 11 Jun 2016 21:20:58 +1200

you can fix this problem with this sample code:

<% loop $Categories %>
<a href="$Link">$Title</a> //(will be return the category Name

<% loop blogPosts %>
<a href="$Link">$Title</a> //(will be return the all post of this category)
<% end_loop %>

<% end_loop %>

and if you want to show this part in other pages you can use this code at the firts of your line:

<% with GetPageByType(Blog) %>

<% end_with %>

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Displaying blog posts, filtered by specific category & Tag

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 02:04:12 +1200

Hi,

I try to call recent Blog posts filtered by specific category, Through these code in my HomePage:

public function CallCategory($limit = 3) {
      return BlogPost::get()->filter(array(
      'Categories' => 'Cultural'
      ))->limit($limit)->sort('LastEdited');
      }

but it doesn't work.
is there any way to call posts filtered by category?

Thanks,

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Re: remove BlogHolder as a viewable page

Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:31:45 +1200

You can achieve this using Extensions. The Blog object itself does not need to be extended, but the controller for it does (the part that handles where URLs go).

So in your mysite/_config/config.yml, write something like:

Blog_Controller:
extensions:
- BlogControllerExtension

This is assuming you use the latest version of the Blog module, 2.0, which has the classes Blog and BlogPost (and matching _Controllers).

Then in your code you'd have a file BlogControllerExtension.php with something like this:

class BlogControllerExtension_Controller extends Blog_Controller {
   function init() {
      parent::init();
      $blog = $this->getOwner();

      // If there is only one blog post, redirect to it
      if($blog->getBlogPosts()->count()==1) {
         return $this->redirect($blog->getBlogPosts()->First()->AbsoluteLink());
      }
      // If there are no blog posts, redirect to homepage
      else if(!$blog->getBlogPosts()->count()) {
         return $this->redirect('/');
      }
   }
}

Well, something like that should work :)

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Problem with Blog Module & Silverstripe 3.3 (ASSETS not available)

Sun, 06 Mar 2016 02:43:04 +1300

Hello,

if i post a new site with the Blog-Module and it contents a Picture from assets, i get this error:

Action 'assets' isn't available on this handler.

What can i do?

INFOS:
Silverstripe and the Blog-Module both installed with composer.

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Compatibility between Blog module and Event Calendar

Thu, 03 Mar 2016 05:32:30 +1300

I'm attempting to use both the Blog module (latest stable version) and Unclecheese's Event Calendar module (also latest) together on the same site. They seem like they would be very complimentary; I'd like to be able to include Event Pages in my Blog feed, for example, so our Development office doesn't have to maintain the same text in two places.

Problem is, both modules implement index() in their controller classes; the blog module does this without parameters, while Event Calendar defines it as index(SS_HTTPRequest $r). Either way I define my Page_Controller::index(), one of the modules is going to bark about incompatible declarations. I can't use both modules without modifying them locally (which I don't want to do in the long term).

What's the best way to declare Page_Controller::index()? Should it include the SS_HTTPRequest or not? The documentation seems to go one way, while much of the example code available for starting 'mysite' goes the other.

If there is a best practice, what does that mean for modules that don't currently conform to it?

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remove BlogHolder as a viewable page

Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:57:43 +1300

Hi All,

I couldn't find any help on google/forums similar to my situation, so here goes.

My current site structure looks something like this:

BlogTree
- BlogHolder
  - BlogEntry
  - BlogEntry
  - BlogEntry
  - BlogEntry
- BlogHolder
  - BlogEntry
  - BlogEntry
  - BlogEntry
  - BlogEntry
- BlogHolder
  - BlogEntry
  - BlogEntry
  - BlogEntry
  - BlogEntry

I'm hoping to achieve two things:

If you access BlogEntry, the breadcrumb to BlogHolder will not be a link. You can't access the page.
If you manually type in the link to a BlogHolder page, it will either redirect to the first article in the category, or 404.

I'm new to silverstripe, so if anybody knows of better solutions, I'd love to hear them.

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Using Blog Module as/on Homepage

Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:34:59 +1300

Is anybody using the blog module on the Homepage? I am talking about the page using the URL segment "home".

I general the blog module works fine on the Homepage. It is just the fact that some Widgets (e.g. TagCloud, Categories)
seem to get into trouble because they expect the generated link to be something like home/blogpost to resolve.
If I use another page lets say a second page called blog for the module the URLsegment look like blog/blogpost and everything works like a charm.

Is there a general issue using the blog module as Homepage?

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Re: New Blog Posts - cannot longer Publish or Delete

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:08:24 +1300

Anyone else with this issue may want to go through and just make sure they are up to date with the blog module and TagField module.

In this case TagField was preventing a validation from passing.

There is also an issue currently with archiving blogs:
https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/issues/4835

-helenclarko

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Re: New Blog Posts - cannot longer Publish or Delete

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:06:19 +1300

Heya mate -

Yep, its been a while and a few things changed at my site.

It seems blog is behaving totally erratically - to the point where I don't even know how to describe the issue(s).

Can't post blogs, nor can I delete them.

I may go to the IRC channel as you suggest; I am completely bewildered....

You mind take a look at the backend to get an impression of what's going on?

Happy 2016 btw!

Raymond

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Re: New Blog Posts - cannot longer Publish or Delete

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:59:10 +1300

Hi Mondi,

Its been awhile since you were last active in the forum, I hope everything is going well (other than this issue).

You should join the IRC channel, they are usually very quick in replying to questions and they are a friendly bunch.
https://irc.silverstripe.org/

Do you have any errors popping up within the CMS whenever you go to save or load a blog post page?
You could try adding "?isDev=1" and see if that gives you more information.
Alternatively you could load up firebug or chrome's inspect element and take a look at the network tab.
If there are any errors they will usually show up as an error in the network tab.

-helenclarko

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New Blog Posts - cannot longer Publish or Delete

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:05:42 +1300

Hi all -

Not sure what's gone wrong on my site http://www.e-lumini.com but it appears that I am no longer able to either publish or delete blog posts.

When I add a new Blog Post the New Post page opens up ok but without the Publish button;
When trying to Save a new post, the save button shows activity but the preview panel doesn't reflect any changes [doesn't change]
When trying to delete this page, the 'More Options' function shows 'Archive' as the only option.

Latest SS version running.

Could anyone give me some advise on how to resolve this issue please?!

Many thanks in advance -

Raymond
When attempting to delete the

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Re: Review page and blog

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 16:44:18 +1300

Another option would be to use the comments module.

https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-comments

This would allow you to create standard pages for the companies and people could then add comments.

You may also want to check out http://addons.silverstripe.org/ as someone may have already create a module which does want you want already.

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Review page and blog

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 05:23:19 +1300

I want to make a page with reviews about a company.
Can this be done with the blog module but also have a blog on another page?
Or does someone have a better solution for a review page?

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Re: Display list of blog posts, filtered by specific category

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:45:24 +1300

Hey BigD1214, helenclarko,

Thank you both for your replies! I always worry that the Silverstripe forum is such a quiet place for such an awesome app...

I actually did find a very simple solution to this problem - apologies, I should have posted my solution (more of a workaround for my particular situation) and closed this off.

I set up a dropdown selector in the CMS that allows me to select any page from SiteTree, including blog posts:

<?php

class ArticlePage extends Page {
...

private static $has_one = array (
'RelatedBlogPost' => 'SiteTree'
);

...

public function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();

...

$fields->addFieldToTab(
'Root.RelatedBlogPosts',
$treedropdownfield = new TreeDropdownField(
"RelatedBlogPostID",
"Choose Blog Post",
"SiteTree"
)
);

return $fields;
}

I can output data from the selected blog post into my page

It's slightly more "manual" than writing a function and looping over results, but actually my client preferred being able to "hand-pick" the blog posts they wanted on each page, regardless of the tags or categories associated with that post.

@BigD1214 this may not an appropriate workaround for you, but I hope it's helpful nonetheless!

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