A CakePHP blog plugin for CakePHP2.0+
- Blog posts ** Paginated across all filter types (see below) ** Sticky flag ** In/out RSS feed flag
- Filter by ** Categories (HABTM, hierarchy, only shows categories with posts in, displays number of posts in each category or one of its children) ** Tags (HABTM, including tag cloud) ** Year/month archive (based on created date/time, only shows months with posts in, grouped by year, displays number of posts in each month)
- RSS for all posts, or posts in a particular category or tag
- Settings ** Meta title, description, keywords for the unfiltered list and filtered by archive list
Create custom views in your app directory e.g. app/View/Plugin/Blog/BlogPosts/index.ctp
- CakePHP 2.0+ (so PHP5.2+)
- MySQL v4+
- CakePHP HABTM Counter Cache behavior (http://github.com/neilcrookes/CakePHP-HABTM-Counter-Cache-Plugin)
git submodule add git://github.com/neilcrookes/CakePHP-Blog-Plugin.git app/Plugin/Blog
or download from http://github.com/neilcrookes/CakePHP-Blog-Plugin
Add the following line to your /app/config/bootstrap.php
CakePlugin::load( array( 'Blog' => array( 'routes' => True ) ) );
And add this line to /app/config/routes.php
CakePlugin::routes('Blog'); // Load Blog plugin routes
Run the SQL script in Blog/Config/chema/schema.sql
Go to mydomain.com/blog
See:
- mydomain.com/admin/blog_posts for creating blog posts (and follow links to create the tags and categories first)
- mydomain.com/admin/blog_settings for editing the settings (things like the index page title and RSS feed title etc)
(Requires that your Routing.prefixes includes 'admin')
- Custom blog post content implementations
- Internationalisation
- Improve the admin interface
All contributions welcome and will be attributed
Copyright Neil Crookes 2011
The MIT License