The XPages based blogging platform. This blog template is intended to be totally customizable, you can customize almost everything. It includes many features:
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Multiple Layouts already configured (2 or 3 columns, 1 or 2 sidbars left aligned, 1 or 2 sidebars right aligned)
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Use Dojo Layout or Classic XBlog Layout
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Sencha Touch UI for Mobile Devices (Work in progress)
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Web Based Blog management site
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Edit and manage style sheets from Blog Management site
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RSS Import from your previous blog
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Google +1, facebook, twitter, digg this buttons for all posts
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Spam Prevention provided by Akismet
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XSS Prevention provided by Anti-Samy
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Tags instead of Categories
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Google Analytics and Google Adwords built in
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Downloads are part of Posts and Pages
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Automatic Comment locking after x# days
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Multiple Language support
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Many sidebars to choose from
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Built in Code Syntax Highlighting using SyntaxHighlighter 3.0
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Email Notification of blog owner and blog commentors (if they so choose)
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Blogs imported via RSS Importer from BlogSphere and DomBlog, existing permalinks will redirect to proper Xblog post. This makes your incoming links still functional.
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Admin Dashboard
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Admin Search
This application must run on a Domino 8.5.2 server with the extension library installed. All other dependencies are included in the NSF. You can find a Documentation Wiki on BleedYellow.com
Currently this project is in the testing phase, there are a few known issues that need to be corrected before this moves from Alpha level to Beta Level. The known issues are (issues with a * next to them are preventing upgrade from Alpha to Beta):
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Adding a script block in the Rich Text editor works, however the script block is not available in the editor upon the next edit.
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RSS Import - In blogsphere you must fix a couple of bugs before you can import from a blogsphere template
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RSS Import - The email address of a commentor is not included and thus not imported
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IE 7 and IE 9 rendering is broken. Works fine in IE 8 - Fixed if using the Dojo Layout
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* RSS Import - Importing images is not currently supported, however the infrastructure is there, just need help importing gathered images via DXL or some other means
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* The viewScope bean is expiring after about 30 minutes, at which point you loose anything you haven't saved
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Does not function under Dojo 1.6 on an 8.5.2 server due to an incompatibility with the rich text editor, which is corrected with Domino 8.5.3
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Image upload in rich text editor broken
Contributors:
If you would like to contribute to the development of XBlog please just let me know. I'll appreciate any help I can get. Please see the Help Wanted section for current needs