Protect form unlogged in users and Non authors when Delegated Authors in useĬreate Author table and add ability to assign authors using backend controller.Īdds "required" plugins property to Plugin.Access the Site Editor Understand the Editing Panel Understand the Toolbar Navigate the Site Editor Updated to use L5.5 Mailable class for new post notifications.Īdd author_id to posts so true author can be tracked and editing can be restricted to author posts.įixes missing author name from email template.Īdd validation to make sure a category is chosen Thank you "silverxanga"įixes notifications mail errors in pre 420 installs.įixes CKEditor not updating content field on AJAX request. Execerpt field added.Īdds custom fields to be saved from custom form partials where someone has extended Post model with their own fieldsįixes Database error with PostgreSQL 9.6.5. Please do not hesitate to find me in the IRC channel or contact me for assistance.įixes JS error when exerpt filed not used Small donations also help keep me motivated. If you like this plugin or if you use some of my plugins, you can help me by submiting a review in the market. This is an example of what could be changed to display author ( frontend user ) and user ( backend user ) in the posts display. FILE NAME: blogPost/default.htm ( Notice the filename starts with 'blogPost' which matches the componet "Alias" used in the page markup.).Now to create a custom partial for this your partial should look like this: If you just drag and dropped the Rainlab.Post component to the page used to display a single post, then your page will look something like this: The most important thing about replacing default partials is the file name. This can be done by creating a partial for the post component. You may want to display author ( frontend user ) with post. You can do this in a number of different ways but here is one example that allows only user with an id of 5 or 10 to see the form on the form page: Īlternatively you could use the Blog AJAX Form Component on a single page and set it's properties as listed above. Example URL " /postform/:slug?" or " /blog/form/:slug?".Set " Allow Publish" to yes if you want user to be able to change post "Published" status.Set " Backend Author" that this post is owned by.Set " Form Page" ( After you create it below ).Ĭreate a " Form" page and add Blog Form Component to the page.Ĭategories, Backend Author, Allow Publish Settings ( Controlled by Author settings or Manually ).Set " Restrict Posts to Author" if you only want users to edit the posts they created answer yes here.Set " Categories" you want to allow posting to.Set " Use Preset Authors" to yes to use back-end author settings.Categories Setting ( Controlled by Author settings or Manually ).In blog section of back-end, add front-end users that you want to delegate to write posts.Ĭreate a " List" page and add Blog List Component to the page.
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( Installation code : fireunion.blogfront ) Requires ( RainLab.Blog) and ( KurtJensen.Passage ) This has turned out to be the perfect solution for my site. The components can be placed on the page and categories assigned to them as one of the property settings. They can even paste in pictures from the Web and also paste formated text right from their word processing software.Īfter content is created there is even away to send out new post notifications to registeredo users. Now I just setup users to write there own posts. Administrators used to have to take time to copy content from emails and post information for members. Blog Front gave me a way to delegate the task of creating content without having to train users in HTML. My labor union uses Rainlab Blog as a way to show "News" posts on our website. Use the provided Author settings to restrict access to the forms or use with Passage Permissions and check for assigned permissions or just user IDs using twig. Set groups that can receive notices in component settings.Option NOT to use "Author Settings" allows you to customize and protect forms as you see fit.Option to restrict author editing to only posts they create.Set back-end user that user is authoring as.Allow publishing or only draft post creation ( backend user will then need to publish post ).Restrict what categories user can post to.
Localization files allow full translation You can allow administrator to approve posts before publishing.ĭo you have users that need to create content for your club or group site? You decide who can posts to which categories and set the forms to allow only drafting or drafting and publishing. Adds rich editing features to Rainlab Blog plugin.īlog Front allows you to authorize front-end users to manage posts in RainLab Blog.