Blog with PW

[aren]

I'm liking ProcessWire very much, but I still find setting a blog with it sooo complicated compared to others CMSs. 

Most of my projects use blogs and news sections, so may I ask if there's any plans to simplify the blogging setup in the future?

And for now, is there any *simple* blog profile (just title, date, category and post) with *no* CSS styles - just a blank slate?

Thanks! 

[MarcC]

What about a simple blog tutorial? That might be more flexible than a profile. Especially if you are building on an existing PW site. It's really straightforward to set up something like that.

[Joss]

Okay, I am sort of working on both - give me a day or two.

[Joss]

Right, here you go!

This is three files complete with instructions for creating news.

You need to do some work, but a lot of it is done already.

Full instructions are in the newsfunctions.inc file.

Just copy the three files to /site/templates/ and then change as you wish.

This does not NOW includes categories - just a simple news posting. But it is enough to get you started.

It is for a main news page that lists news articles and links them through to their own template.

The news articles are all pages created under a hidden page.

The main news index page includes pagination.

https://github.com/jsanglier/Pw-News

Joss

[Joss]

@ Aren

One thing you need to remember is that ProcessWire is designed to allow you to develop any sort of website - so doing some sort of a blog is only one of thousands of things you might do.

Also, a blog you might want may well be completely different to what another developer wants.

However, it is not that complicated - the news system I have just posted for you took me an hour or so from scratch, including writing all the instructions. And I am not a developer!

So, while there is no blogging setup in ProcessWire to simplify, little bits of code that can speed up development is never a bad things to have kicking around.

[OrganizedFellow]

There is another post going around titled "Repository of php Scripts for Templates" -> http://processwire.com/talk/topic/1018-repository-of-php-scripts-for-templates/

Maybe we can take this opportunity to post little addon snippets to the above news/articles "gizmo", lol, I don't know what to call it, gizmo felt appropriate!

I've got the above downloaded and installing later.

If I make any changes, I'll tidy things up and I'd like to share them here.

[Joss]

Please do.

I had to make some odd changes to it because, of course, I created it with one of my installs which has things in strange places! 

I think I changed it to fit a standard install, however.

[totoff]

pw will never compete with out-of-the-box-blog-engines like wp when it comes to setting up a blog rapidly. from my point of view this is a major advantage of pw.

[Joss]

Absolutely, and it is not designed to compete with WordPress either.

Having said that, you can create incredible blog applications with ProcessWire - just for fun!

[aren]

Wow! Thank you Joss!!  Much appreciated!

Time for me to do a little studying.