Basic CGblog question [solved]

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Basic CGblog question [solved]

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Solution: activate (un-x) the individual blog entries under Content/
cgblog/Entries.
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created a "page" named "news", and included {CGBlog action="default"} in the"content text area."
There is also a dummy blog entry under the category "international".

What is the output supposed to be?
the post is not being displayed in the browser.

thanks
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Did you read module help?
Help for the CGBlog module wrote: To display the blog entries on your site you simply place the

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{CGBlog}
tag into the content area of a page, or into a page template. The default behaviour is to display a summary report of valid, published blog entries. You can use the optional parameters (as described below) to alter the behaviour of the module.

action="default" - 'Override the default action. Possible values are:
* "archive" - to displa an archive report of your blog entries.
* "detail" - to display a specified entry in detail mode.
* "default" - to display the summary view
* "browsecat" - to display a browseable category list.
* "fesubmit" - to display a form allowing site visitors to submit news articles.
* "myarticles" - to display a report of all articles matching the current logged in FrontEndUser.
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Re: Basic CGblog question

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I'm also having issues with it not displaying.. i'm using {CGBlog} but when it goes live nothing shows..
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thanks for the post Marijus
I usually do try until things either work or become too stupidly redundant and I also read everything I can get my hands on before I post. The forum is my last line of defense, not first.
I followed the instructions in the help file, including all possible combinations, etc. => hence the post.

this morning, after having given up on the CGblog module for a couple of days, I realized that the blog entry itself has to be activated under Content/CGBlog/Entries, which displays the post correctly.

thanks
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^ Ahhh... That happens to me all the time... I think it's best to set the default to 'Published'
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oh sweet ok i figured it out .. i'v been looking and is there a way to have multiple users for the blog and also each one to have an avatar?
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Re: Basic CGblog question [solved]

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Also another weird question and yes i tried to figure it out before i posted. if you go to . http://jerahco.com/powerpros/index.php?page=blog
you will see a blog i added. for some reason the content of the blog isn't posting and also i'm assuming you have to edit the template to style the top text?
thnx guys
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CGBlog is just like news or any other blog, it shows a summary then a link to the detail content, if you just want the detail content don't put anything in the summary and it will show just content...
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Re: Basic CGblog question [solved]

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roger got that figured.. just trying to figure out how to edit the css :)
Dr.CSS wrote:CGBlog is just like news or any other blog, it shows a summary then a link to the detail content, if you just want the detail content don't put anything in the summary and it will show just content...
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I don't think it comes with a style sheet but if you look at page source view or in the cgblog templates you will see everything has a div with a class on it that you target to style as you want...
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