Installation

( Installation code : fireunion.blogfront ) Requires ( RainLab.Blog) and (KurtJensen.Passage )

This Plugin requires these additional plugins to function:

• RainLab.Blog
• KurtJensen.Passage

Basic Steps

Install

• Download plugin to plugin directory.

Create Delegated Authors

In blog section of back-end, add front-end users that you want to delegate to write posts.

Create Page for Editing Posts

• Create a "List" page and add Blog List Component to the page.

  • Categories Setting ( Controlled by Author settings or Manually )
    • Preset Authors
      • Set "Use Preset Authors" to yes to use back-end author settings.
    • Manually
      • Set "Categories" you want to allow posting to.
  • Set "Restrict Posts to Author" if you only want users to edit the posts they created answer yes here.
  • Set "Form Page" ( After you create it below ).

• Create a "Form" page and add Blog Form Component to the page.

  • Categories, Backend Author, Allow Publish Settings ( Controlled by Author settings or Manually )

    • Preset Authors
      • Set "Use Preset Authors" to yes to use back-end author settings.
    • Manually
      • Set "Categories" you want to allow posting to.
      • Set "Backend Author" that this post is owned by.
      • Set "Restrict Posts to Author" if you only want users to edit the posts they created answer yes here.
      • Set "Allow Publish" to yes if you want user to be able to change post "Published" status.

  • Set "List Page" ( from above ).

  • Add ":slug?" to the URL for the page .

    • Example URL "/postform/:slug?" or "/blog/form/:slug?" .

Alternatively you could use the Blog AJAX Form Component on a single page and set it's properties as listed above.

You should protect these editing pages 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:

<div class="contain">
{% if user.id == 5 or user.id == 10 %}
{% component 'PostForm' %}
{% endif %}
</div>

You may want to display author ( frontend user ) with post.

This can be done by creating a partial for the post component. The most important thing about replacing default partials is the file name.

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:

• TITLE: Post
• URL: /blog/post/:slug
• File Name: blog/post.htm
• Layout: default
• Markup:

    {% component 'blogPost' %}

Now to create a custom partial for this your partial should look like this:

• FILE NAME: blogPost/default.htm ( Notice the filename starts with 'blogPost' which matches the componet "Alias" used in the page markup.)
• Markup:

     {% set post = __SELF__.post %}

    <div class="content">{{ post.content_html|raw }}</div>

    {% if post.featured_images.count %}
        <div class="featured-images text-center">
            {% for image in post.featured_images %}
                <p>
                    <img
                        data-src="{{ image.filename }}"
                        src="{{ image.path }}"
                        alt="{{ image.description }}"
                        style="max-width: 100%" />
                </p>
            {% endfor %}
        </div>
    {% endif %}

    <p class="info">
        Posted
        {% if post.categories.count %} in
            {% for category in post.categories %}
                <a href="{{ category.url }}">{{ category.name }}</a>{% if not loop.last %}, {% endif %}
            {% endfor %}
        {% endif %}
        on {{ post.published_at|date('M d, Y') }} by 
        {{ post.author.name }} {{ post.author.surname }} as {{ post.user.full_name }}
    </p>

Notice that there is a new part added to RainLab.Blog original partial:

     by 
        {{ post.author.name }} {{ post.author.surname }} as {{ post.user.full_name }}

This is an example of what could be changed to display author ( frontend user ) and user ( backend user ) in the posts display.

Like this plugin?

If you like this plugin or if you use some of my plugins, you can help me by submiting a review in the market. Small donations also help keep me motivated.

Please do not hesitate to find me in the IRC channel or contact me for assistance. Sincerely Kurt Jensen