thanks looks good ^_^

thanks for the update..

i was testing this and updating my 'containers' plugin to reflect the new blog_tools features and found that i am unable to save the 'show user info under blog' setting correctly on the blog save page using the code in the save form of this version of blog_tools.

here is the code i created for containers that now works with this feature of blog_tools:

    if (empty($blog)) {
        $show_owner_value = elgg_extract("show_owner", $vars, $show_owner_setting);
    } else
    {
        if ($blog->show_owner == '')
        {
            if ($vars['show_owner'] == '')
            {
                $show_owner_value = elgg_extract("show_owner", $vars, $show_owner_setting);
            }
            else
            {
                $show_owner_value = $vars['show_owner'];
            }
        }
        else
        {
            $show_owner_value = $blog->show_owner;
        }
    }

i'm looking through the save action for blog_tools and i am not seeing where or how the 'show_owner' field is being saved... did you miss that part out? or am i missing some knowledge of how the variable is intended to be saved?

hmm.. i experienced a strangey issue with my code editor while looking at blog_tools so got confused by what i was seeing. i have containers working with blog_tools now... possibly the code change i pasted was unnecessary as i had missed out making a needed update to the save action in my own plugin.

Hi Jerome,

Thank you for this nice plugin.

I am trying to put some articles in highlights on a carousel (I use some tags to filter through "elgg_get_entities_from_metadata"). I would like to put the article's image but I do not understand how to get it and what to do for it.

By the way, I would like to know if it would be possible to get the article's in different size (one for the carousel and one for the river) ?

Regards

Clem.

@cvoeil:

I am trying to put some articles in highlights on a carousel (I use some tags to filter through "elgg_get_entities_from_metadata"). I would like to put the article's image but I do not understand how to get it and what to do for it.

if ($entity->icontime) $icon = elgg_view_entity_icon($entity, $size);

By the way, I would like to know if it would be possible to get the article's in different size (one for the carousel and one for the river) ?

By default there are two 'sizes' one for listing and the full view. If you like more views, you have to make them yourself

Seems to work great. Thanks!

Is there a way to influence how the "related blogs" are chosen, and how many of them are shown?

Any ideas why the icon/image isn't shown in artikel or list view?

The icon is uploaded though, and shown in the edit area..

hi herome,

is there a way to make the master image size bigger? like 800px?

@[cim]

is there a way to make the master image size bigger? like 800px?

Yes there is, if you change the values of $CONFIG->icon_sizes["master"]. Please keep in mid that this change will work on ALL icons (eg user, groups). And only on new icons.

Also see https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/blob/1.8/engine/lib/views.php#L1652

what is the intended functionality and use for the "feature/unfeature" setting - dont see any UI layout changes after setting a blog post to "featured". Thanks

@Jerome so the blog icons master size uses the default user icon sizes right?

To my knowledge, no other views/plugins uses the "master" size except yours. Changing it to 1000x1000 master size wouldn't hurt but best to make it fluid by scaling when necessary via CSS.

If you guys want to change the default master size or whatever, paste this at the bottom in your settings.php

$CONFIG->icon_sizes = array(
'topbar' => array('w' => 16, 'h' => 16, 'square' => TRUE, 'upscale' => TRUE),
'tiny' => array('w' => 25, 'h' => 25, 'square' => TRUE, 'upscale' => TRUE),
'small' => array('w' => 40, 'h' => 40, 'square' => TRUE, 'upscale' => TRUE),
'medium' => array('w' => 100, 'h' => 100, 'square' => TRUE, 'upscale' => TRUE),
'large' => array('w' => 200, 'h' => 200, 'square' => FALSE, 'upscale' => FALSE),
'master' => array('w' => 1000, 'h' => 1000, 'square' => FALSE, 'upscale' => FALSE),
);

I set my max width and height for "master" size to 1000x1000. Of course this can be change to whatever you desire.

sorry for the previous question and I just noticed where the Featured blogs go. is there any way to make featured blog title and perhaps a few words excerpt be displayed on the Activity page -> within the grey column (default Elgg theme) 

Seems to have a bug: I try to toggle featured but i get an error GUID:xxxxx is not a valid ElggBlog. The guid is alright tough.Have no idea what is wrong here.

@Tauvic Ritter

Seems to have a bug: I try to toggle featured but i get an error GUID:xxxxx is not a valid ElggBlog. The guid is alright tough.Have no idea what is wrong here.

Maybe there is something wrong in your database. try disabling the Blog plugin en re-enabling it. Maybe this helps?

Good, very useful plugin.
Sometimes leaves a question mark when I upload an image. What could it be? thanks

Hello,
I have a small doubt here:

Allow advanced publication options
With this users can select a publication and expiration date for blogs. Requires a working daily CRON.

What daily CRON we have to create?

Thank you,
Regards.

@Marius Modoranu

Allow advanced publication options
With this users can select a publication and expiration date for blogs. Requires a working daily CRON.

What daily CRON we have to create?

Please checkout http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Cron

@tunist could you arrange Containers to work with this plugin? For me the dropdown menu it just dissapears on activating blog tools...

i am using containers with blog_tools ok. containers needs to be beneath blog_tools in the plugin list.

@tunist, no it works, thanks!

Hi
Very good job!
I need to know how to display a list of blogs, with separate elements: title, image, abstract.
Does anyone resolved this situation before?
Use Elgg 1.9
Thank