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Mini-Blog HOWTO

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:28:01 -0500

Setting up a mini-blog is relatively simple. Here's what you need to do to get started with making new posts:

Login to the MODx Control Panel.
Create a new Webuser by clicking the Users > Manage web users link.
Make sure to check the Site Admins Webuser Group at the bottom of the page.

Editing Blogs and Comments

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:38:39 -0500

Blog entries are simply pages in the document tree in MODx. User Comments for an article are also stored as a child page of the original article, with special formatting. If you cannot see any child docs for an entry that contains commments, edit the post from inside the manager and turn the post into a folder. You should then see the user comments doc inside the folder. Edit that document as you would any other document, looking for the specific post you want to edit. User comments are formatted as in the following example:

Just a pretend, older post

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:56:02 -0500

Not so exciting, after all, eh?