I have just begun using this package and so far I like it very much. It has saved med a lot of work and I appreciate that a lot :)

I have had some issues a long the way, and I would like to share them with the rest of you friendly people. I'm not saying theres anything wrong with ublogsy. This is just what fits my needs. I heard somewhere about a hotfix and some or all of my mentions may allready have beed adressed. I'm writing this as I get to the issues so it might seem mixed up and in no particular order but here i comes.

A client of mine needed several blogsites with different domains, so I started to look for a blog module and fell over ublogsy. I made a new project in VS2012. An empty MVC4 application. Installed Umbraco V6.0.3 (and jQuery) via Nuget. Created a database and set up the site. Installed ublogsy from backoffice dev section. Backoffice worked fine but I had an error on the site. Same error as described here

Resharper helped me by changing UmbracoTemplatePage to Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage and inserting "using Umbraco.Web" and using uBlogsy.BusinessLogic and a few other usings to a lot of the cshtml files and changed landing.url() to landing.url in some places (not all) and after that it worked. (don't know it it really works as it should since this is my first ublogsy site but I have it running)

I like to use the convention over configuration so I keep images and css in the "Content" folder in the root. Same as Microsoft does if you create a new MVC4 project in VS2012. I know that Umbraco does not do this but since this is a pure MVC module I think it should too and so should Umbraco for that matter, but this is just me. No need to argue about that.

To the _uBlogsyBaseBlog.cshtml I added <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/Content/Css/site.css"> I omitted the media part because i try to make my code visible on all devices. I removed the addthis reference because I hate that they shall track all my users. I also referenced the jQuery files directly.

Instead of the addthis reference I rewritten in the uBlogsyGlobalSeoMeta.cshtml the following:

<code>

    // get seo description, use body when no description

    var desc = Model.Content.GetValueFirstOf(new[] { "uBlogsySeoDescription", "uBlogsyContentBody" });

    // get seo keywords, use title when no keywords

    var keywords = Model.Content.GetValueFirstOf(new[] { "uBlogsySeoKeywords", "uBlogsyContentTitle" });

    // get root of site, or landing - change uBlogsySiteRoot to your root alias, otherwise uBlogsyLanding will be used

    var root = DataService.Instance.GetSiteRoot(Model.Content, "uBlogsySiteRoot") ?? DataService.Instance.GetLanding(Model.Content);

    var landing = DataService.Instance.GetSiteRoot(Model.Content, "uBlogsySiteRoot") ?? DataService.Instance.GetLanding(Model.Content);

    var url = new Uri(Request.Url.AbsoluteUri).GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Path);

    var description = uBlogsy.Common.Extensions.StringExtensions.StripHtml(desc).GetSummary(150).Trim();

    // get title of page

    var title = root.GetPropertyValue("uBlogsyContentTitle"); @*change uBlogsyContentTitle to your title alias (if required)*@

    if (Model.Content.Id != root.Id)
{
title = CurrentPage.uBlogsyContentTitle + " - " + title;
}
<title>@Html.Raw(title)</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="@keywords.StripNonAphaNumeric().Trim()" />
<meta name="description" content="@description" />
<link rel="canonical" href="@Html.Raw(url)"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/Content/images/favicon.png" />

if (Umbraco.Field("facebookAppID", recursive: true).ToString() != String.Empty)
{
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:description" content="@description" />
<meta property="og:url" content="@Html.Raw(url)" />
<meta property="og:title" content="@Html.Raw(title)" />
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="@Umbraco.Field("facebookAppID", recursive: true)" />
<meta property="og:image" content="@landing.Url/Content/Images/facebook_logo.jpg" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="@landing.GetPropertyValue("uBlogsyContentTitle")" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="@Umbraco.Field("facebookAdmins", recursive: true)" />
}
</code>

I use Html.Raw on url because in Denmark it is possible to have danish letters in URL's

I have added a few global parameteres to the document type "[uBlogsy] [Base] Page/SEO tab": facebookAppID, facebookAdmins, googleAnalyticsID

For the OG tags i changed the html tag to <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" lang="da" xml:lang="da-DK" class="no-js">

And to the uBlogsyGlobalFooter.cshtml I added right after the footer part (this might be in a seperat file):

<code>
{
if (Umbraco.Field("facebookAppID", recursive: true).ToString() != String.Empty)
{
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function (d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/da_DK/all.js#xfbml=1&[email protected]("facebookAppID", recursive: true)";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
}

if (Umbraco.Field("googleAnalyticsID", recursive: true).ToString() != String.Empty)
{
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', '@Umbraco.Field("googleAnalyticsID", recursive: true)']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function () {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
}}
</code>

This way you have Google Analytics on alle pages and you can easily add Facebook like buttons to content pages. Test your Facebook OG tags here https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

You might want to change the da_DK part to en_US for english sites...

To the _uBlogsyBaseBlog.cshtml I also removed @Html.Partial("uBlogsy/Global/uBlogsyGlobalBrowserTitle") because <title> is allready rendered in uBlogsyGlobalSeoMeta.cshtml.

I alterede the title part: title += " : " + CurrentPage.uBlogsyContentTitle; to title = CurrentPage.uBlogsyContentTitle + " - " + title; beacuse from a SEO perspective it is better to have the page specific before the site specific.

uBlogsyGlobalFooter.cshtml is referenced both in _uBlogsyBaseBlog.cshtml and uBlogsyGlobalFooter.cshtml so I removed it from _uBlogsyBaseBlog.cshtml.

In section uBlogsyHead in uBlogsySiteHome.cshtml, uBlogsyPage.cshtml and _uBlogsyBaseBlog.cshtml I referenced a partial that I created in Global (uBlogsy/Global/uBlogsyGlobalScriptHeader) because it is the same code and added a reference to Html.Partial("uBlogsy/Global/uBlogsyGlobalSeoMeta") and so contentpages and blog use the same CSS and SEO meta.

In the menu/navigation I added if (Request.Url.AbsolutePath == node.Url() || ((Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf(2) != null) ? Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf(2).Id : 0) == node.Id) to check if a blogpost is currentpage to get toplevel blog selected.

Changed some dates, so all will be in same format.

Included date to post time even though it is rendered at the top.

Added target="_blank" to commenters websites.

Made comments count to render "No comments, be the first to comment" "1 comment" or "x comments" after the blog post.

Search dosent seem to work on duplicate sites, since it searches in the original blog!

Original blog: www.teaterlinje.dk

Dublicate blog: www.musiklinje.dk

 

Im happy about the result, so thanks to Anthony for alle the good work :)