Codegarden 2012

I recently presented uBlogsy at Codegarden12 after a heavy night of drinking.

http://codegarden12.com/sessions/day-two/slot-four/lightning-package-heaven.aspx



The slide deck can be found here


  





Here are the questions I sought to answer in the presentation. Basically the FAQ's that keep popPing up in the forum.



Can uBlogsy sit anywhere in the tree other than the root?
Yes.

Will it work without the posts container?
Yes. You only need the landing node and if course the posts.

Will it work without the date folders?
Yes. But for organisation of your content you should use them.

Can I have more than one instance of uBlogsy in an Umbraco installation?
Yes you can. In fact it was built with multi-region in mind. Moreover they can be at any level because the scripts all travers up the tree in search for the uBlogsy landing node.

Does it scale?
Yes. I think... I’ve tested it on 2000 nodes using SQLCE. Page loads were under 1sec.

Can I integrate uBlogsy into an existing site?
Yes. The uBlogsyBaseSite master page just needs to inherit from your own master page (template). Then strip out the html you don’t need. You can also just use the macros.
[DEMO]

uBlogsy is not my root node. How do I get a summary list on my home page?
There are a few ways. The easiest is to pass in the landing node Id to the macro, or to hardcode it in the macro itself.
[DEMO]

Can I have category folders?
Yes. uBlogsy's scripts only care about uBlogsyLanding and uBlogsyPost nodes. Put anything you like in between. However, if you want to display YOUR categories, it's up to you.
[DEMO]

Can I list posts based on more than one tag, author, or category? Moreover, can these be combined?
Yes! Just coma delimit.
Eg.
/author=anthony,agnes&category=leisure,entertainment,politics&tag=sheep,donkey,cat
[DEMO]

Can posts have an image?
Hell yes! Just add a media picker (or DAMP) and modify  uBlogsyShowPost.cshtml
[DEMO]

Can posts have a video?
Yes