Blogms how-to questions

[scsl]

Hi,

The website I am making (powered by cmsms 1.2.2) for my users has blogms module (blogms 0.2.2) installed.  my users want, among other webpages, to have 2 blogs available to two of their bloggers. What I did was to set two categories, category A for blogger A, catergory B for blogger B. Questions:

(1)  Each blogger has a username and password to log in to manage their blogs.  both bloggers belong to a group I named blogusers, which only have the privilege to manage the blog modules.  But as of now, when they log in, they can see and "touch":

  (a) bookmarks, tags, captcha, formbuilders
  (b) the blog posts of each other (that is, those of both category A and B).

    But I don't want that.  Is it possible to set it in such a way that blogger A can only see his own posts (under category A), and blogger B his own (under category B), and none of (a) above?  if so, how to do it? 


(2)  I would like that the summary (or $entry->shorttext) of the most recent posts of blogger A and blogger B to appear in a small space on the home page, with a link to their blogs.  Much like that in the home page of cmsmadesimple.org on its right column's "Recent Forum Posts".  Is it possible to do that? If so, how to do it?

I am glad that cmsms has a blogms module. Because it means that a blog can be incorporated seamlessly into a website.  To me this is a great feature.

[calguy1000]

There is a newer version of the captcha module, and formbuilder and probably bookmarks (one module I haven't touched) modules need to be tweaked to handle permissions better.... Once they do this, and you install newer versions of the modules, the entire 'extensions' module will disappear.

As far as 'allowing only access to certain categories of module X for user Y' well... that's significant code modifications.

[scsl]

Thanks for the prompt answer, Calguy.  You said,

As far as 'allowing only access to certain categories of module X for user Y' well... that's significant code modifications.

May I then put this as a feature request for future version of 'blog made simple' module?  I don't mind waiting.  And if yes, I do have a further proposal:

that, much like the latest news module, 'blog made simple' module allows for the creation of new templates, so the existing default templates don't need to be touched.

This way, 'blog made simple' module can provide the capacity for having more than one blog (that can be displayed differently, and separately managed) to be built within a website.  many thanks!

Please can somebody help me with my question (2) above:

(2)  I would like that the summary (or $entry->shorttext) of the most recent posts of blogger A and blogger B to appear in a small space on the home page, with a link to their blogs.  Much like that in the home page of cmsmadesimple.org on its right column's "Recent Forum Posts".  Is it possible to do that? If so, how to do it?

[Acornweb]

Hi Scl,

a lot of the formatting and presentation requirements you mention are achievable now, just using stylesheets.

You could have code like

{cms_module module='Blogs' params}


on one page and


{cms_module module='Blogs' params}


and then apply different style rules to each blog based on the classname of the wrapping div.

That way you get the affect you want straight away and the dev guys can concentrate on building functional features rather than presentational features into their plugins.

If you want some more advice on this then just email me, or post here