Blog - Adds a blog section to your community

JasperVriends

📰 Flarum Blog

This Flarum extension will add a blog system to your forum.

If you have any feedback, let us know! Do you experience issues? You can report issues on the Flarum Forum or on GitHub.

🛠️ Latest update: May 30, 2021 - Version 0.4.0

Previous updates:

May 30, 2021 - Version 0.4.0
March 24, 2021 - Version 0.4.0
Feb 13, 2021 - Version 0.2.2
Jan 18, 2021 - Version 0.2.1
Jan 17, 2021 - Version 0.2.0
Jan 12, 2021 - Version 0.1.5
Nov 17, 2020 - Version 0.1.2
Nov 16, 2020 - Version 0.1.0

📥 Installation

If you like to install this extension, run the following command:

composer require v17development/flarum-blog

♻ Updating

Run the following command on your server to update the plugin

composer update v17development/flarum-blog

🦸 Features

Adds a 'Blog' page and article detail page to your forum
Uses the advantages of the flarum-tags extension
Fully integrated SEO tags using the flarum-seo extension
Add summary to an article
Add an image to an article
Highlight a post
Disable or allow comments by default
Blog posts could require a review (if set up)
Custom blog and review role
Friendly user interface
Set 'blog overview' as home page
Works with already existing discussions/articles
Including ghost loading

📝 To-do:

Add RSS (possible)
Upload images (using fof-upload)

🙋 Questions, feedback?

If you have any questions related to this extension, don't hesistate and send us an email, or ask your question on our V17 Development Slack workspace.

⚠️ Note for everyone reporting issues in this topic:

Your issues might get lost in this topic after more replies and we forget about it. When working on an update of our extensions, we always check the GitHub issue list, not this topic.

This preferation might be different per extension developer, but we at V17 prefer GitHub issues as our issue tracker.

❤️ Sponsored by Glowing Blue

This extension is sponsored by Glowing Blue.

🖼️ Screenshots

Blog overview page:

Blog article:

Blog tools:

Blog settings:

Admin settings:

ctml

You guys are killing it with the extensions JasperVriends , looking forward to beta14 support.

mekici

JasperVriends When the code block is added, the page slips.

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JasperVriends How can I make wider the post pages? Blog posts on mobile are too narrow. I tried to do it with css, but the plugin's css suppressed the css codes I added.

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JasperVriends Why isn't shown Dropdown in my forum's mobile view?

My Forum:

Other Forums:

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JasperVriends Users who are not logged in cannot view the author information on the right of the blog post.

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JasperVriends When a user who has not logged in yet, visits the blog post, sometimes does not see the author information (like this). Also, sometimes the back button does not work (when hasn not logged in yet). What is the problem?

Eren65465024

JasperVriends Hello, thank you very much for this plugin. But when I activate the plugin, it breaks the tag page.

zdenga

JasperVriends Bugs are fixed on this plugin ?

phenomlab

O...M...G...

I love this !! Off to try this out...

PascalBoschma

Best of all: it's free!

ctml

PascalBoschma

100%, free extensions like these make flarum an even more attractive offering to users and in turn grow the community.

katos

Sweet Mary Jason’s... this is amazing!

EvilExecutor

THIS IS A KILLA! Hope beta 14 support will be added soon.

MikeJones

Damn! So my flarum is basically used as a blog.

How does this work if I already have posts?

Can we make this the main view?

ctml

MikeJones
I've not tested yet, but according to main post you can set this view as your homepage, and it does work on original posts.

PascalBoschma

We are thrilled that you all like our plugin. We've now contributed two free plugins and we will keep maintaining those to keep the spirit alive. (And thank you Glowing Blue!)

010101

Oh my! This is next level. I hope it can be beta 14 compatible soon! 👀

ctml

I hit an error when I enabled it on my forum (beta 13)

Warning: explode() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given in /usr/share/nginx/flarum/vendor/v17development/flarum-blog/src/Listeners/CreateBlogMetaOnDiscussionCreate.php on line 23

Fatal error: Uncaught Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\Exception\EmitterException: Output has been emitted previously; cannot emit response in /usr/share/nginx/flarum/vendor/laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner/src/Exception/EmitterException.php:24 
Stack trace: 
#0 /usr/share/nginx/flarum/vendor/laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner/src/Emitter/SapiEmitterTrait.php(40): Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\Exception\EmitterException::forOutputSent() 
#1 /usr/share/nginx/flarum/vendor/laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner/src/Emitter/SapiEmitter.php(27): Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\Emitter\SapiEmitter->assertNoPreviousOutput() 
#2 /usr/share/nginx/flarum/vendor/laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner/src/RequestHandlerRunner.php(98): Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\Emitter\SapiEmitter->emit(Object(Laminas\Diactoros\Response\HtmlResponse)) 
#3 /usr/share/nginx/flarum/vendor/flarum/core/src/Http/Server.php(42): Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\RequestHandlerRunner->run() 
#4 /usr/share/nginx/flarum/public/index.php(26): Flarum\Http\Server->listen() #5 {main} thrown in /usr/share/nginx/flarum/vendor/laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner/src/Exception/EmitterException.php on line 24

iPurpl3x

ctml Same error here @JasperVriends ...

JasperVriends

ctml iPurpl3x New version has been released, version 0.1.1! Thanks to the PR of luceos providing the fix!

JoZ3

WOW fantastic work, thanks so much for this great contribution to the community 🙂

luceos

Fix submitted: v17development/flarum-blog#1

phenomlab

@JasperVriends is this extension compatible with FoF/Gamification ?

I see the below in the console

Uncaught TypeError: n.ranks(...).reverse is not a function
    at e.<anonymous> (addUserInfo.js:103)
    at e.t.<computed> (extend.js:27)
    at e.t.<computed> [as view] (extend.js:25)
    at e.render (Component.js:100)
    at e.n.headerItems (CommentPost.js:134)
    at e.t.<computed> (extend.js:25)
    at e.t.<computed> (extend.js:25)
    at e.t.<computed> (extend.js:25)
    at e.t.<computed> (extend.js:25)
    at e.t.<computed> [as headerItems] (extend.js:25)
3addUserInfo.js:103 Uncaught TypeError: n.ranks(...).reverse is not a function
    at e.<anonymous> (addUserInfo.js:103)
    at e.t.<computed> (extend.js:27)
    at e.t.<computed> [as view] (extend.js:25)
    at e.render (Component.js:100)
    at e.n.headerItems (CommentPost.js:134)
    at e.t.<computed> (extend.js:25)
    at e.t.<computed> (extend.js:25)
    at e.t.<computed> (extend.js:25)
    at e.t.<computed> (extend.js:25)
    at e.t.<computed> [as headerItems] (extend.js:25)

Seems to also conflict with @clarkwinkelmann "Who Read" extension :-(

JasperVriends

phenomlab mekici Thank you both for reporting the issues. I'm currently working on fixes 😃

For future bug reports, please use the GitHub issue tracker so we'll not miss any issue: https://github.com/v17development/flarum-blog/issues

JasperVriends

@phenomlab @mekici The release below should fix your issues 🙂

Release v0.1.2

Thank you for reporting bugs and feedback!

Changelog:

Fix include data for articles
Added sidebar category hierarchy, v17development/flarum-blog#2
Hide blog tags properly now, v17development/flarum-blog#3
Bugfix undefined variable, v17development/flarum-blog#4
Add background to categories with no icon, v17development/flarum-blog#7
Fix infinite loading screen when there are no posts, v17development/flarum-blog#8
Hide not-approved blog posts properly, v17development/flarum-blog#12

phenomlab

JasperVriends Works brilliantly. Thanks very much !

phenomlab

JasperVriends some things I've noticed. I'll raise GitHub issues for them, but wanted to outline them here for brevity purposes

having the ability to include the hero section on the blog page would be great. It looks odd when discussions are loaded that have a header, and the blog page doesn't.
there doesn't appear to be any div class applied to the avatar and bio section which makes customisation almost impossible as there is no div specific to target
no support for FoF/nightmode. Easily resolved with custom css, but...

I absolutely love this extension and it's groundbreaking in the sense that it takes flarum into a new dimension. I'm going to be using this extensively, so am happy to offer tips, suggestions, etc.

EDIT - GitHub issues raised

mekici

JasperVriends thank you for the quick update.

Suggestion: It would be much more functional if a certain number of featured articles are shown at the top of the all discussions page or on the left.