collective.blog 1.0.1

A Blog-Addon for Plone.

collective.blog

Blog features for Plone

Features

collective.blog adds blogging features to a Plone site.

Content Types

name	context
Blog	A folderish content type that supports adding Posts and Authors
Blog Author	An Author in a blog
Blog Tag	A Tag for categorizing posts in a blog
Blog Post	A Post in a blog

Installation

Add collective.blog as a dependency on your package's setup.py

    install_requires = [
        "collective.blog",
        "Plone",
        "plone.restapi",
        "setuptools",
    ],

Also, add collective.blog to your package's configure.zcml (or dependencies.zcml):

<include package="collective.blog" />

Generic Setup

To automatically enable this package when your add-on is installed, add the following line inside the package's profiles/default/metadata.xml dependencies element:

    <dependency>profile-collective.blog:default</dependency>

Source Code and Contributions

We welcome contributions to collective.blog.

You can create an issue in the issue tracker, or contact a maintainer.

• Issue Tracker
• Source Code

Development requirements

• Python 3.8 or later
• Docker

Setup

Install all development dependencies -- including Plone -- and create a new instance using:

make install

Update translations

make i18n

Format codebase

make format

Run tests

Testing of this package is done with pytest and tox.

Run all tests with:

make test

Run all tests but stop on the first error and open a pdb session:

./bin/tox -e test -- -x --pdb

Run only tests that match TestVocabAuthors:

./bin/tox -e test -- -k TestVocabAuthors

Run only tests that match TestVocabAuthors, but stop on the first error and open a pdb session:

./bin/tox -e test -- -k TestVocabAuthors -x --pdb

Credits

The development of this add-on has been kindly sponsored by German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Developed by kitconcept

License

The project is licensed under GPLv2.

Contributors

• Jonas Piterek [@jonaspiterek]
• Érico Andrei [@ericof]
• Timo Stollenwerk [@tisto]
• collective [[e-mail]]

Changelog

1.0.1 (2025-02-04)

Bug fixes:

• Override addCreator for not setting the default author if not set. @sneridagh #80
• change tag translation in queryfield. @jnptk #81

1.0.0 (2025-01-16)

Bug fixes:

• Remove unnecessary .gitkeep files which broke the profile in Plone 5. @davisagli #79

1.0.0a13 (2024-06-17)

Bug fixes:

• Remove custom serializers for blog content types. They were serializing preview_image_link in the wrong format. @davisagli #75

1.0.0a12 (2024-04-24)

Bug fixes:

• Fix tags widget to not have an open vocabulary, and adjust Volto widget @sneridagh #71

1.0.0a11 (2024-04-10)

Bug fixes:

• Fix 'Wrong contained type' error for new blog posts with no tags created using plone.restapi. @davisagli #69

1.0.0a10 (2024-03-28)

New features:

• • Update German translations [@jonaspiterek] #63
• Update Brazilian Portuguese translations [@ericof] #67

Internal:

• Add a GitHub Actions workflow to automatically check for Changelog entries on pull requests [@ericof] #65

1.0.0a9 (2024-03-27)

New features:

• Added Blog Tag content type. A tags folder is created for new blogs, but not existing ones. @davisagli #61

1.0.0a8 (2024-02-28)

Bug fixes:

• Limit authors vocabulary to authors from the current blog context. @davisagli #59

1.0.0a7 (2024-02-02)

New features:

• Allow a Blog Post to be created inside a subfolder of a Blog #54

Bug fixes:

• Refactor post_authors indexer to avoid repeated calls to the catalog #56

1.0.0a6 (2024-01-29)

New features:

• • Add indexer for indexing authors from a blog post [@jonaspiterek] #53

1.0.0a5 (2023-12-04)

New features:

• Translate id and title for Authors folder on creation [@jonaspiterek] #50

1.0.0a4 (2023-11-28)

Bug fixes:

• Rename Blog fti to BlogFolder, allowing contents with id blog to be added [@ericof] #42
• Add initial blocks to auto_add_authors_container handler [@jonaspiterek] #43
• Rename blog index and metadata to blog_uid [@ericof] #48

1.0.0a3 (2023-11-24)

New features:

• Control creation of "Authors" folder via registry configuration [@ericof] #34
• Add control panel to configure Blog Settings [@ericof] #36
• Additional information returned on /@authors endpoint [@ericof] #40

Internal:

• Increase test coverage of the package [@ericof] #38

1.0.0a2 (2023-11-23)

New features:

• Initial Package Structure for Plone 6 [@jonaspiterek] #11
• Blog and Author should be listed on Plone Navigation [@jonaspiterek] #13
• Implement i18n support [@ericof] #17
• Implement collective.blog.blog_info behavior [@ericof] #20
• Disable allowing to add Author globally. Fix GS titles [@jonaspiterek] #21
• Add index and metadata for blog post and blog author, Add test for blog author [@jonaspiterek] #28
• Implement collective.blog: Add Author, collective.blog: Add Blog, collective.blog: Add Post permissions [@ericof] #30
• Create folder authors inside a blog [@jonaspiterek] #32

Documentation:

• Improve README.md [@ericof] #15

1.0a1 (2016-02-14)

• Initial release. [@pcdummy]