Flarum Blogs – Join us on the Road to 1.0

Darkle

hrvoje_hr I can't believe I finally missed this, I was so interested thank you for bumping it again. I sent you a friend request on Discord.

Ps update your Discord name in the discussion to Fenix_FFA.hr#9286

askvortsov

Darkle I'm interested too, askvortsov#3485

hrvoje_hr

Darkle thanks for the mention!

I've created a server for easier communication. First post is updated with the invite. Everyone is free to join. Let's get this baby going 🙂

Blog for Flarum Support Community
https://discord.gg/nGeWpvtn8k

EDIT: There are 4 of us already. Currently discussing stable version features and improvements

hrvoje_hr

Unfortunately, there is not much going on with the group. There are 6 of us for now with only 3 of us (I think) who would financially support new changes.

I proposed these changes for the stable version and we are still looking for more guys who would be interested to crowd fund it. Feel free to join us on Discord:
https://discord.gg/nGeWpvtn8k

composer page rewrite:

fields for the title, category, blog settings (without additional windows)
article image management compatible with FoF upload
remove bio on sidebar (and place there fields with categories, article image, summary...)

front page:

category class on posts (for theming)
do not auto-feature posts on blog
searchable posts
schedule posts (maybe better for the extension)
some basic layout variations (maybe better for the extension)
fix OG tags

articles:

ability to use author name instead of Flarum nickname
basic sidebar managment (related or latests posts)
extendibility for widgets (Darkle mentioned it)
some basic layout variations (also maybe better for the extension)
metatags

Composer page design proposal:

User24

hrvoje_hr i will definitely support when my forum gets into a decent hosting environment. 😀 saving funds for it.

JasperVriends

hrvoje_hr I see I haven't joined the Discord server yet and the join link is expired 🙁 Can you update it? 😃

I also want to update everyone here. I am currently really busy with finishing my study at this moment. Unfortunately, it now takes most of my time as the end is (finally) nearby. This is the reason there weren't any updates and replies last few weeks. So just to be clear, we haven't forgotten Flarum, we're still thrilled to build more!

Next month I should (hopefully) finish my study forever, so in July we'll start working on a lot of updates and improvements again!

ctml

User24 I think @luceos crowdfunding idea he teased would be perfect here and really promote the development of this extension as well as many others. I've donated the past few months to v17 using their donation site, but I would much rather "donate" in the form of crowdfunding/bounty for features and continued development.

PascalBoschma

ctml

We are forever grateful for your continuous support for this extension. The Crowdfunding idea is very interesting. We love working on Flarum Blogs. The community support for this extension is great!

hrvoje_hr

JasperVriends link is updated. Good luck with finals!

gozen

It would be great to get this continue.
We will try to contribute, a small donation is always welcomed I believe.

User24

i wish to get a custom feature (something different 😅 and exclusive to my forum) and wish to hear out from dev about its cost. So where can i ask it?

Edit: I want those feature in blog extention

hrvoje_hr

User24 you can join our Discord. Both original developers are there.

https://discord.gg/nGeWpvtn8k

hrvoje_hr

Exciting stuff everyone. @Darkle came up with concept of Blog Components on our Discord server. In short, it's inspired by @SychO Widgets Core extension. The idea is to separate all Blog elements into the Components and move them freely between Layout positions. @askvortsov explained how it should be done on technical side with some innovative solutions and @PascalBoschma basically gave his blessing with "I'm in" reply. Hype went above 9000.

Some concept images:

Front page by Darkle

More refined concept by me

Composer complete redesign

Front page redesign

More concepts, 2

You can find all stuff expected in Blog 1.0 extension here on our newly launched Trello board:
https://trello.com/b/zr2xtYKZ/flarum-blog-road-to-10

In next days we will try to make a deal with guys from V17 development (I hope @askvortsov will join them too), discuss what can and can't be done and how much it will cost. After we get a quote I will try to organize a funding pot and get it crowdfunded.

With everything planned for 1.0, Flarum Blog will become fantastic alternative to Wordpress and other CMS systems. Faster, lightweight, robust, expandable and beautiful. Just like Flarum 😍 Potential is huge, I'm sure other developers will see opportunity in all of this and jump on board too.

I invite you all to share your ideas here, come on our Discord server, follow us on Trello and let's get this train going.

luceos

hrvoje_hr that is great news, good job everyone on spearheading this! Community driven development done brilliantly!

JohnP

hrvoje_hr This looks amazing, well done to everyone who has taken part in getting the idea to this stage,

Hari

hrvoje_hr related posts? Schema support? (Add to wishlist)

Somone said if I have 5k fof/ pages flarum will get slow 🤔

Like Gatsby once we create a Page can you store it as a static file is that possible? 😍

hrvoje_hr

Hari related posts?

You can find on our Trello board that we suggested compatibility with @Justoverclock related discussions extension. If done, that would be basic extension with generated list of related post just like it is now.

For more complex solution (with thumbnails like my concept bellow) I think someone will develop a premium extension. I'm interested in it too.

Hari Somone said if I have 5k fof/ pages flarum will get slow

Idk that will be an issue with Blog. Blog posts are basically modified discussions, and I have more then 8k of them on Flarum site I manage. At one point we had over 15k discussions and everything was fine.

Hari Schema support?

Can you explain more? I think Flarum SEO already support it. But yes, it's currently not compatible during some issue with extenders. It should be fixed for 1.0 too.

Hari

hrvoje_hr Article schema markup
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/article

hrvoje_hr

Hari oh, I thought it's already done trough the Flarum SEO. Added to the list

Justoverclock

hrvoje_hr thank you for mentioning my extension,

in my todolist theres also image thumbnail for related discussion 😉

hrvoje_hr

Justoverclock great! That would be it then 😁