Blog Categories and other suggestions

[erikperin]

Hey, will really great if the blog extension have a Categories, tags system and other forms to comment like facebook and Disqus?

[martinwojtus]

https://github.com/martinwojtus/extension-blog

Maybe its not perfect but it work.

[donpicho]

Dear Marcin (@martinwojtus),
Thank you a lot for your blog exentsion. I installed it to have categories and tags - everything as described in your installation instructions. Unfortunately I get empty pages within the blog extension now. I tried everything, but I can't get the reason for the issue. When I replace (overwrite) all files of the original blog extension from the latest pagekit release (1.0.13) with the files of your extension, the content (options etc.) in the default tabs (posts, comments, settings) appear again, except for the Categories tab. It stays empty. So I guess there must be any incompatibility between the files of your blog extension and the ones in the current pagekit release? On the other hand, I've checked the release dates. Pagekit 1.0.13 was released September 2017 and your last changes took place at a later time (November?). Considering that, I guess your blog extension with categories and tags works fine within your installation?
Any idea how to fix this, troubleshooting? Thank you.

[thekerub]

Yeah I have the exact same issue. This feature is a must have so I'd be very glad if anyone could help.

[martinwojtus]

Did you run script from DDL.sql file on pagekit database and modify UrlProvider.php?

[thekerub]

Yes, I copied the contents of the script.sql and ran it in phpmyadmin and modified the url provider.

[martinwojtus]

ok, give me some time I will check this.

[thekerub]

Thanks!

[martinwojtus]

sorry guys I forgot to write about something in the instructions...
go to /packages/pagekit/blog directory and run:

• npm install
• webpack
  commands...

this will create appropriate js files in bundle folder and everything should work great :)

[thekerub]

Thanks for the fast reply! How do i run those commands though? I suppose I need some form of command line, but I don't know what to do.

Btw I do not have SSH access to my webspace and can not use something like putty if that's what I need.

[martinwojtus]

ok, I just add those bundle files into extension, so you don't have to run npm commands, just download my fresh extension from repo...

[thekerub]

Thanks man, you're awesome!

[thekerub]

A follow-up: The interface does work now. However the categories and tags will not show up in the actual blog site.
Any idea? I can only assume that it has to do with the category.php in views?

[martinwojtus]

List of categories in actual blog site are not implemented (yet ;) category.php is responsible for presenting blog posts by category...
for example if you add category 'awesome' and have 2 posts in this category then you will see them by going to http://[website.url]/awesome

just like on http://frontbackend.com category oracle,
http://frontbackend.com/oracle -> posts from category oracle (category.php file)
http://frontbackend.com/oracle/how-to-generate-random-uuid-in-oracle (specific post view post.php)

[thekerub]

Ah, I understand. Thanks! Is there any way to hide posts with certain categories from the standard blog view?

[martinwojtus]

Ok. thx for fixing this bug in UrlProvider.php i will push it to the repo.

[thekerub]

No don't, it was a wrong fix. I don't know why it worked before for me, now it doesnt anymore and I had to change it back.

[martinwojtus]

:)