I installed locally a version of umbraco business wich comes with a news module and blog. I'm having all sort of isssues that I can't seem to fix and apply fixes that work for other people in this forum and still no luck.
I can create blog post but can not add commetns nor add tags to my post. I don't get any sort of errors in the log table or get any type of exceptions when I sumbit either one of those.
What I've done so far:
I modified my resExtensions.config to look like this:
My AjaxCommentForm.ascx was AjaxCommentForm.ascx.cs for codebehind but this file wasn't there, so after days of googling I ran into it and I added it to my site but I don't think I ever get to fire that up since I put a console.write for testing and it never came up.
I don't understand what this means:
var url = "/base/RunwayBlog/CreateComment/<umbraco:Item field="pageID" runat="server"/>.aspx";
I don't have a "/base/" directory?!
The test skin that I download it with it uses the followin macro for displaying blog post on the home page:
but how can I modify which ones to show? at the momment on my admin area I see the following structure:
(folder)Blog
Company blog post (post)
Viva la mexico (post)
(folder)2012
(folder) 1
(folder) 2
Second Post (post)
Base on the structure above the macro that I'm using only displays the blog post that are inmmediatly below the Blog (folder) and I can not add any blos directly in that location, when I try to add a blog post it adds them in the date folder in my sample case January 2nd 2012.
I know this is a very long question but I hear from a friend of mine that Umbraco was the way to go and I really want to be a believer but I'm very lost.
First of all /Base is something that comes with Umbraco, which is used for easily creating raw XML feeds - which is probably also the case with this package.
However it seems you really just want to dig into and learn Umbraco.
Do you specifically need a blog based on Umbraco or do you just need a package to play around with to get started with Umbraco? To me it unfortunately seems that there are some bugs with the starter kit you mention and I will therefore encourage you to install the CWS starter kit instead if you don't neccesarily need to have a blog running.
You can install CWS from the Umbraco repository by going to the developer section and expand the packages folder and click on the "umbraco package repository" and search for CWS or Creative Website starter.
If you specifically need a blog I think you should have a look at the uBlogsy package instead.
I basically need a CMS that I can build on top of but having blog and a news module as part of the package is a huge plus. I'm currently redesigning my rugby team website because I need them to do things for themselves. I'm tryin umbraco locally and ran into a bunch of problems. Do you think is because I used the Microsoft Web Platform Installer?
No I don't think it has anything to do with how you installed Umbraco. I'm afraid that there is a bug with the skin itself. If it's based on the old blog4umbraco packages it needs a lot of tweaking before it will work (can't remember if it is, but seems like it).
The best blog package out there at the moment is uBlogsy done by Anthony Dang. You should try to check it out and perhaps build your site on top of it. But maybe you should install the CWS package for starters to see how you can structure Umbraco, structure your content and create renderings to display the content in templates.
If you only have basic needs for the blog and news module you can quickly create some simple document types and renderings from scracth that will fullfill your needs. Must admit that I can't remember if someone has created a news package. But you can try to search in the projects part of Umbraco to see if such a package exists.
I reinstalled umbraco and add uBlogsy. I looked into installing the CWS package but it said that was only for umbraco v4.5 so I didn't installe it.
I have a few general questions that maybe you can answer now that installed adn played with uBlogsy (which seems to work pretty good). I'm basically trying to find the best way to tackle this site.
Is there a way to add uBlogsy as part of my main site?
I was trying to copy/paste the macros that displays the first 5 blogs on uBlogsy and add them to home page of my CMS but had no luck, is that possible? Basically to writte macros that pull data from uBlogsy and display in the main site.
I see that you can add pages to uBlogsy, do these pages work like the CMS ubraco pages? can I add macros, templates, modules, forms, etc? Basically if this is possible, should I use uBlogsy as the CMS?
Runway blog not saving comments or tags
Hi all,
I installed locally a version of umbraco business wich comes with a news module and blog. I'm having all sort of isssues that I can't seem to fix and apply fixes that work for other people in this forum and still no luck.
I can create blog post but can not add commetns nor add tags to my post. I don't get any sort of errors in the log table or get any type of exceptions when I sumbit either one of those.
What I've done so far:
I modified my resExtensions.config to look like this:
<ext assembly="Runway.Blog" type="Runway.Blog.Library.Base" alias="RunwayBlog"><permission method="CreateComment" returnXml="false" allowAll="true" /><permission method="GetGravatarImage" returnXml="false" allowAll="true" /></ext>My AjaxCommentForm.ascx was AjaxCommentForm.ascx.cs for codebehind but this file wasn't there, so after days of googling I ran into it and I added it to my site but I don't think I ever get to fire that up since I put a console.write for testing and it never came up.
I don't understand what this means:
var url = "/base/RunwayBlog/CreateComment/<umbraco:Item field="pageID" runat="server"/>.aspx";
I don't have a "/base/" directory?!
The test skin that I download it with it uses the followin macro for displaying blog post on the home page:
<umbraco:macro ID="Macro2" alias="umbBusinessFrontpageBlog" runat="server"></umbraco:macro>
but how can I modify which ones to show? at the momment on my admin area I see the following structure:
Base on the structure above the macro that I'm using only displays the blog post that are inmmediatly below the Blog (folder) and I can not add any blos directly in that location, when I try to add a blog post it adds them in the date folder in my sample case January 2nd 2012.
I know this is a very long question but I hear from a friend of mine that Umbraco was the way to go and I really want to be a believer but I'm very lost.
Thanks,
RM
Hi Roderick and welcome to our :)
First of all /Base is something that comes with Umbraco, which is used for easily creating raw XML feeds - which is probably also the case with this package.
If you're interested you can read more about base here: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-base
However it seems you really just want to dig into and learn Umbraco.
Do you specifically need a blog based on Umbraco or do you just need a package to play around with to get started with Umbraco? To me it unfortunately seems that there are some bugs with the starter kit you mention and I will therefore encourage you to install the CWS starter kit instead if you don't neccesarily need to have a blog running.
You can install CWS from the Umbraco repository by going to the developer section and expand the packages folder and click on the "umbraco package repository" and search for CWS or Creative Website starter.
If you specifically need a blog I think you should have a look at the uBlogsy package instead.
Hope this helps.
/Jan
Hi Jan and thank you for the warm welcom!
I basically need a CMS that I can build on top of but having blog and a news module as part of the package is a huge plus. I'm currently redesigning my rugby team website because I need them to do things for themselves. I'm tryin umbraco locally and ran into a bunch of problems. Do you think is because I used the Microsoft Web Platform Installer?
Thanks,
RM
Hi Roderick
No I don't think it has anything to do with how you installed Umbraco. I'm afraid that there is a bug with the skin itself. If it's based on the old blog4umbraco packages it needs a lot of tweaking before it will work (can't remember if it is, but seems like it).
The best blog package out there at the moment is uBlogsy done by Anthony Dang. You should try to check it out and perhaps build your site on top of it. But maybe you should install the CWS package for starters to see how you can structure Umbraco, structure your content and create renderings to display the content in templates.
If you only have basic needs for the blog and news module you can quickly create some simple document types and renderings from scracth that will fullfill your needs. Must admit that I can't remember if someone has created a news package. But you can try to search in the projects part of Umbraco to see if such a package exists.
Hope this helps.
/Jan
Hi Jan,
I reinstalled umbraco and add uBlogsy. I looked into installing the CWS package but it said that was only for umbraco v4.5 so I didn't installe it.
I have a few general questions that maybe you can answer now that installed adn played with uBlogsy (which seems to work pretty good). I'm basically trying to find the best way to tackle this site.
Thanks for your help again, RM
Hi again,
So I tried to upload Umbraco to my hosting provider but it won't work because they do not support it.
could you recommend umbraco hosting providers? sorry if this is the wrong way to ask.
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