MW: my blog

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What is my blog

My Blog is a MediaWiki extension that allows a blogger to the user's menu. It allows each user to have the capabilities to create blog entries and to have their blog entries listed under the "Most Recent Blogs" from the Navigation Menu.

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Maintainer

Shannon McNaught (smcnaught)

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License 

SpecialPageListSubPages.php/SpecialPagesListAllBlogs.php 
  - Adds Blog functionality to MediaWiki

Copyright (C) 2005  Shannon McNaught

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.


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Download

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Installation

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Add Extensions to the Extensions Folder

My Blog was created from User:Joshurtree/SpecialListSubPages.

Add these files to the extensions directory:

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Making "my blog" in the user menu

  • link is in /includes/SkinTemplate.php
  • Look for 
 /* set up the default links for the personal toolbar */

Added: 

                       $personal_urls['myblog'] = array(
                               'text' => "my blog",
                               'href' => $this->makeSpecialUrl("ListSubPages/User:$this->username")
                       );
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Making "Most Recent Blogs" in the Navigation Menu

Go to MediaWiki:Sidebar http://YourHost/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Sidebar

Edit Page and Add: 

** recentblog-url|recentblog

Edit http://YourHost/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:recentblog-url and Add: 

Special:ListAllBlogs/

Edit http://YourHost/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:recentblog 

Most Recent Blogs
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Add Extensions to your LocalSettings.php 

require_once("extensions/SpecialPageSubPages.php");
require_once("extensions/SpecialPagesAllBlogs.php");
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Change Log

version 0.01b - First release.

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Screenshot

Image:MW-Blog.png

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Live Example

See online example at http://www.chekmate.org/wiki/.

You will need to create an account to see your personal "my blog" page.

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References

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Blog Dynamic Article List Report

Added a dynamic summary report to be displayed on the front page to show recent blog entries.

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Remarks

  • see Descussions for list of problems
    • btw: limitResult issue is resolved by following (notice that there is no comma after $offset): 
array( 'ORDER BY'=>'page_touched DESC','LIMIT' => $limit,'OFFSET' => $offset ) );
    • btw: in the 2 special pages added it is assumed that /wiki is the root of the wiki and it is hardcoded. You may consider editing


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