Implementing a Blog

[aw.be]

Hello eveyone.

I need to implement a blog but am copletely at a loss as to how to do that in PW. Is it simply a matter of creating a new template to hold the metadata fields and then add the comments module or is it trickier than that?

Any guidance as to how to get going on this, or a reference to further reading is appreciated.

[teppo]

You could take a look at the blog profile, http://modules.proce...s/blog-profile/. Only problem here is that it currently cannot be easily installed on an existing site, but if you're only starting (it's a new site) then that should do the trick. If it's an existing site, you could still take a look at included features under "Blog Profile Features" heading on that page to get a pretty good idea about what kind of things to keep in mind when building your own blog.

If you're working on an existing PW site and wish to build custom blog, easiest method would doing exactly what you mentioned above; creating templates for "blog home" (unless posts are direct children of your home page) and blog posts + adding the comments module for blog post template. After that you'll just start adding pages with blog post template under your home / blog home.

That should get you started, though things like RSS feeds (see http://modules.proce...les/markup-rss/), lists of new / popular / most commented posts on home page etc. are commonly used features on a blog site and not that hard to build at template level.

[aw.be]

Thanks Teppo. That's what I suspected and I will review the blog profile to see what I can learn from it.