Questions tagged [blogs]

A hip and trendy journal for the web. Should be used for rare questions about blogs, not questions on specific blogging software. Don't mix with blogging software tags like wordpress, blogger, medium, etc

Blogs are journals made of dated entries and published on the web. Their name derives from the term web log. It should be used for the rare questions about blogs, not questions on specific blogging software. See:

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Good WPF focused blogs and/or podcasts?

Are there any good WPF focused blogs and/or podcasts out there?
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Blog software written in C or C++

Does anyone know of any blog/CMS software (similar to Wordpress, but doesn't have to be as featureful, I only need basic features) written in C or in C++? If you're about to ask "why do you need this?" - I want it for fun. I get far more enjoyment…
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Pagination in Wagtail

I'm fairly new to Wagtail, and I am in the process of creating a site that will have a Resources (blog) section and I'm not sure how to implement pagination so that there are only 5 posts on each page and the user has to click a number (1, 2, 3,…
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Minimalistic PHP blogging engine with focus on code quality

I'm looking to set up a blog. There are many "what's the best blogging engine?" questions on SO, but none totally focused on code quality. I have done a lot of work with WordPress, and it's the #1 solution for many cases, no question. Its…
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Adding tags to posts in Ruby on Rails

I am creating a blog in Rails using Scaffolding. I want to add a 'tags' field on each post like on StackOverflow and WordPress. I can do this with the string type ( rails generate scaffold post title:string body:text tags:string ) and then comma…
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How to structure the tables of a very simple blog in MySQL?

I want to add a very simple blog feature on one of my existing LAMP sites. It would be tied to a user's existing profile, and they would be able to simply input a title and a body for each post in their blog, and the date would be automatically set…
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Preferred approach for marking up a blog with Schema.org

Background/context As schema.org is relatively new, perhaps this question will promote more discussion than a definitive answer. Either way, hopefully some learning from others' application/experience can be gained. Having studied the…
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Is it possible to provide Code highlighting on sites.google.com websites?

Is it possible to do Code Syntax highlighting on sites.google.com websites like the way we do it on Blogger.com or Wordpress.com?
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Building a blog in rails -- how do I limit text and put a "read more" link to show the rest of post?

I'm building a blog using RoR. I have the index.html.erb page for the posts showing all of the posts. It displays all of the posts and all of their content. I'd like to limit the content that is shown to a certain number of characters and then put a…
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Finding a blog site with good code block support

This has probably been asked before but I can't find any relevant post using the search system. I'm looking for a site where I could host my own blog. Unfortunately, I found none that have the kind of code block friendliness found on our very own…
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How can I display posts from the other sites in a WordPress multisite setup?

I have a small network of sites setup with WordPress 3.0's multisite feature. I would like to create another site which pulls certain posts from the various other sites to display. This new 'hub' site would seem like its own separate site to the…
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What it the difference between Pingback and Trackback?

What is the difference between the two names? Thanks.
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Blog excerpt in Django

I am building a blog application in Django and when I display all the blogs I want to display a small blog excerpt with each entry. Can anybody tell me how can I do that? One way to do that would be to make an extra field and store a fixed number…
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rails 3 blog engine/gem that works on heroku, what to use?

I have spent some time looking for a rail3 blog engine for use on an existing site. I want the blog on the same domain as the application for SEO points eg www.site.com/blog not blog.site.com Having spent some time on this I have…
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How would you make a blog with a TDD approach?

I'm considering remaking my blog(currently in PHP, but <100 lines of non-layout code) in Ruby on Rails just for the fun of it. I want to make another project in Rails, but I should learn Rails(more than hello world) before I go to try to create a…
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