uBlogsy is a blog package for Umbraco 4.7 and above.
uBlogsy uses the awesomeness of Razor.
Here is a screencast: http://www.screenr.com/sATs
Features
- Blog import via RSS url (http://www.screenr.com/wKss)
- Spam detection and optional auto deletion
- Auto comment approval
- Dashboard control for approving comments
- Contact form
- Pages
- Multiple authors - with search by author
- Predefined categories
- Tags - with a new tag datatype and awesome tag cloud
- Archive
- Related posts
- Search
- RSS
- Auto meta tags based on title and content for SEO
- SEO friendly #! links to comments
Comment links look great when using nice urls. To do this, set umbracoUseDirectoryUrls = true in your web.config.
Note: uBlogsy works for Umbraco 4.7 and above even though the download link says otherwise.
While you're here, why don't you check out my tab and property hidding package: our.umbraco.org/.../uhidesy :)
Release notes
Version 2.1.0.0 - built only for 4.7.1.1
- New skin!!!
- Moved email tempates to content nodes to allow regional emails
- Replaced all text with dictionary items
- Fixed rss for non-root landing node
- Various small UI tweaks
- Made uTagsy only display tags from the current tree
- Replaced uTagsy/settings.json with /App_Data/uTagsy.json
Upgrade instructions
- Replace dlls
- Replace macro scripts and css
- Replace /usercontrols/uTagsy/uTagsy.ascx
- Create Email doctypes - probably best to install on a clean db and manually copy properties from there.
Version 2.0.0.1 (Bug fixes) - built only for 4.7.1.1
- Fixed comment issue when auto approve comments not selected
- Added Public domain property to comment nodes to ensure correct url in notification emails in multi-domain sites
- Date folders by default are disabled.
Upgrade instructions
- Replace dlls
- Add text property with alias uBlogsyCommentPublicDomain to uBlogsyComment doctype
Version 2.0 (release) - built only for 4.7.1.1
- Bug fixes
- Removed comment folder creation on published
- Added comment folder creation on comment creation
- Moved date folder config into uBlogsy.config
- Added uLoremsy for prevalues
Version 2.0 (beta 2) - built only for 4.7.1
- Bug fixes
Upgrade instructions from 1.x
- Make a package of your content
- Unzip your content package and open the xml file in notepad.
- Find and replace all uBlogsyFolderBlog with uBlogsyContainerBlog
- Find and replace all uBlogsyFolderComment with uBlogsyContainerComment
- Find and replace all uBlogsyFolderPage with uBlogsyContainerPage
- Save the xml file and replace the xml file with your new one
- Uninstall uBlogsy 1.x
- Install the new uBlogsy 2.0
- Install your content package
- Modify cshtml files manually to not use NodeHelper. Where NodeHelper was used in 1.x, we now use PostService, DataService, etc.
Version 1.4 2.0 (beta) - Changed to 2.0 due to the sweeping changes
- Create posts in dashboard (see screencast http://www.screenr.com/OL1s)
- Rss by author/tag/category/commenter eg. /rss?author=anthony
- List posts commented on by a specific commenter eg /?commenter=bob
- Comment subscription with notification email using Umbraco Member section (Note: will not have existing email conflicts)
- Notification email to blog owner on comment submission
- Disable all comments globally
- Auto moving and sorting of posts when dates changed (see screencast http://www.screenr.com/OL1s)
- Auto date change when moving to new date folder
- Disable auto datefolders to avoid conflicts with 3rd party date folder packages
- Default author
- Optional summary field which defaults to main body
Version 1.3.6.1 (note the version format change) (stable release) - for Umbraco 4.7.1
- Archive fix
Upgrade instructions
- Replace binaries
- Replace archive macro script
Version 1.3.5.1 (note the version format change) (stable release) - for Umbraco 4.7.0
- Archive fix
Upgrade instructions
- Replace binaries
- Replace archive macro script
Version 1.36 (stable release) - for Umbraco 4.7.1
- Recompiled binaries to work with Umbraco 4.7.1 as of (nightly.umbraco.org/.../4.7.1.444.zip)
Upgrade instructions
- Replace binaries
Version 1.35 (stable release)
- Fixed navigation issue
- Fixed archive issue
Upgrade instructions
- Replace navigation and archive scripts.
Version 1.34 (stable release)
- Fixed performance issue
- Modified comments approval to allow multiple nesting of folders before posts.
Upgrade instructions
- Copy dll's
- Modify your macroScripts and uBlogsyBaseSite.master to use the NodeHelper methods for getting the landing node, comments, and posts (where applicable)
Version 1.33 (stable release)
- Fixed comment issue with multiple blog roots deep in content tree.
* Upgrading from 1.32
- Replace your dlls
Version 1.32 (stable release)
- Improved search
- Fixed comment dashboard when multiple roots exist
Version 1.31 (stable release)
- Fixed naviHide for next and previous links
Version 1.3 (stable release)
- Added next and previous links
Version 1.21 (stable release) - thanks @lnrb0b
- RSS fix
- Removed multiple authors with identical name
- Fixed category link
Version 1.2 (stable release)
- Blog import from RSS
- Alternate archive layout for @FarmFreshCode - just add AltLayout="1" to the macro
- Related posts
- Minor tweaks and fixes
- Refactoring of masterpages
Version 1.1 (stable release)
- Optional month folders
- SEO tab which defaults to title and body
Version 1.01 (stable release)
- New FamFamFam icons :)