Blog Module
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The Blog Module of the Content Management System (CMS) is the application for updating and distributing blogs, news and press releases.
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Business Description
Get the most visibility with a blog that is syndicated to your Group profile, your business website, financial web portals and your e-mail lists.
Requirements
Good Design
- good pattern usages ( MVC , et .al ) - helps structure development.
- good abstraction - helps keep interfaces clean
- optimizable - avoid object orientation just for it's sake
- internationalization - keep all user interaction paths i18n clean.
- plugins - allows lower costs for future development.
- documented - keeps costs for future work down.
- careful database usage - caching database results properly helps optimization
Features
- tagging - needed for platform metadata
- security - needed for platform
- storage of multiple blogs in one set of tables - helps make merging easy
- WSYIWYG editor - keeps beginners from being scared off.
- REST interface - helps avoid person pressing delete and deleting 2 entries.
- RSS syndication stream - useful for platform when merging blogs & others.
- multiple access to blogs - for group blogs.
- comments - standard.
- admin for comments
- hold for authorization, allow only certain security levels
- deletable
- plugins for migration from WP, others.
Current Features
As of 00:41, 21 August 2008 (UTC), the Blog Module has these current features:
Admin Side:
- Standard blogging features:
- Add, delete, publish, unpublish, or edit entries
- Edit entry title
- Edit page title
- Edit page meta tags
- Edit authors
- Edit body content
Client side:
- Print page
- Email articles to a friend
Future Goals
Admin Side:
- Tag article with keywords
- Upload images
- Display image as header, thumbnail, or set width
- Advanced blogging features:
- Add/Edit modules in right-side column. Modules are:
- Highlighted quotes
- Charts/Graphs
- Related articles
- Top headlines
- RSS feeds
- Video
- Add/Edit modules in right-side column. Modules are:
- Categorization of articles in a hierarchical structure to link related topics
- Ability to interlink:
- Link within page (anchor point)
- Link within portal (i.e. Correlo or LiveInsure)
- Link within Centricity
Client side:
- Bookmarking tools (Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicio.us)
- Ability to comment on articles
Related Links
- Pligg - (Like an open-source Digg) Pligg has perfected content management in a unique way that encourages users to participate and control the content on the site. This makes the site user-moderated and allows for "social publishing" where the stories are created and promoted by members not website editors.
- Drigg - Like Pligg but built in Drupal
Blikis
Read more about Blikis here.
