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#1 2008-01-04 21:44:13
- Cowboy_X
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Textpattern and multiple blogs
I posted about this maybe a year ago… Is there any way to post from Textpattern to multiple blogs? Is anyone working on this?
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Re: Textpattern and multiple blogs
Textpattern supports 1 site per installation. It is possible to have multiple subdomains and using apache magic to have each subdomain/section appear to be a separate site. With regards to posting from textpattern to multiple blogs, I’m not entirely sure what you mean.
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Cowboy_X wrote:
Is there any way to post from Textpattern to multiple blogs?
I assume you want one site but multiple blogs within it. That’s the only way I can make sense of the question. There are at least two ways of handling this issue.
METHOD 1
This requires defining a new Section for each blog. When you write a new article specify the correct section for the blog you are writing.
On the home page you could pull out the last three articles for a specific blog “happy blog” like this:
<txp:article_custom form="display-blog" limit="3" section="happy blog" />Your form “display-blog” would be used for all the blogs, assuming you want them all displayed the same way. In that form you can use the following to output the blog name:
<txp:section title="1" />METHOD 2
This method is for when it’s easier for you to have a single section for all blogs. Set up a custom field named “blogname” to filter articles on. When you write a new article specify section “blogs” and fill in a valid value for the blogname field, say “happy blog”.
The home page code would be something like:
<txp:article_custom form="display-blog" limit="3" section="blogs" blogname="happy blog" />In “display-blog” use the following to output the blog name.
<txp:custom_field name="blogname" />ISSUES
Both these methods require that you are explicit in your presentation code about the blog names. I am not sure how to get around this for cases where you want to have a dynamically changing number of blogs and you want the home page code to pick them all up automatically. I’d like to hear more from others on this.
robin
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Re: Textpattern and multiple blogs
I implemented multi-blogs of a sort over here
Linjeblogger is a container section using article_custom to pull out the latest blog postings from the other blogs, all listed in the “Linjeblogger” menu. All the blogs are separate sections.
article_custom does not allow paging unfortunately, which is a bit restrictive. BUT, in one of the latest 4.06 revisions (thanks to Manfre) we CAN specify multiple sections, like so:
<txp:article_custom limit="10" section="adventureblogg,filmogmediablogg,gvblogg,kmdblogg,ktmblogg,multiblogg,rampelysblogg" form="blog_article_list" />I used one page for all of this, with conditionals. So, yes, its possible. On the backend, with ied_hide_in_admin, you can restrict what the multiple authors can see.
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Re: Textpattern and multiple blogs
As Robin said. FAQ
Or, if you want/need a more involved solution:
How To Run Multiple Sites Using One Install
Last edited by maverick (2008-01-06 20:34:04)
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