I'm looking for a CMS or a plugin (for any CMS) to create a multisite blog (using subdomains) with shared content, in the sense that from the HP of the blog "blog.com" you can reach the contents of "site1.blog.com", "site2.blog.com ", etc., that the categories of each blog and the authors are present in the HP menu and that all the contents of that category of each blog can be reached from the category pages of "blog.com".
Basically each subdomain must be autonomous, but the contents must be shared among all the blogs in the network.
It would also be useful to be able to suggest articles from other blogs in the network (eg articles suggested by "site1.blog.com" in "site2.blog.com").
What do you think is the best and fastest way to do it?
Alternatively, do you know if there is a way to retrieve blog.com/site1 content from the site1.blog.com URL without redirect?
Users should reach site1.blog.com[...] by clicking on articles starting with blog.com/site1/[...] and those who go directly to site1.blog.com/[...] should reach blog.com/site1/[...] (without URL changes).
I hope you can help me, I have searched but I have not found anything that could help me.
Thanks,
Michele
Related
We got notice from Google's Search Console that one of our blog posts couldn't be crawled. When inspecting the URL from the Google Search Console it reports that the paged was blocked by the following in our robots.txt file.
Disallow: /*?s=
I also ask why "Disallow: /*?s=" would be used? Why worry about parses that contain the letter "s"? If we remove it, what's the risk? Thanks so much in advance for any additional insight that can be shared - P
This query is commonly used on WordPress-based sites.
There may be several types of content on your site and the site builder wanted to allow search only for certain types of content by another way of searching.
It makes sense for example on a store site that wants to restrict users from searching for the products using a customized search form so that they do not wander behind the scenes of the site.
Google's robot has a number of ways to identify if it's a WordPress based site, which is probably why it's looking for that end of the path.
I'm developing a website for a magazine using Ghost (http://ghost.org/) and would like to have pages that display posts from two related tags. Eg. "Science and Environment". I understand that when using a static page you do not have access to posts so I cannot for example do this. This would however be the ideal solution.
{{#foreach posts}}
{{#has tag="science, environment"}}
do thing
{{\has}}
{{/foreach}}
I have had a look on the Trello roadmap (https://trello.com/b/EceUgtCL/ghost-roadmap) but couldn't spot anything there. I would appreciate any help on a workaround.
Cheers
This is possible but a bit tricky
You should install self-hosted Ghost . There is a lot of step-by-step manuals how to do this on Amazon, DigitalOcean, Heroku, etc.
You should create your own custom Handlebars helper for your purposes.
Create myhelpers.js in the Ghost project root and put your own helper code here. For example: {{bytag}} helper which selects posts by one tag. You can extend this to query posts by more than one tag.
At the beginning of config.js place require('./myhelpers')();
to activate your custom helper.
Restart Ghost
I've got a staging and live site I'm working on (not my code base). I've accidentally replaced the live server with some staging code (no backup (slap me)) and I'm getting weird urls for articles on the sites 'blog' page.
Basically everything's being called into the page correctly but the page header link is being screwed.
Rather than being
http://www.example.com/a-nice-url
it's giving me
http://www.example.com/news,recent,pr,etc
which appears to be the list of categories of the article.
Where/How can I easily fix this?
I'm only calling [[*content]] and can't find where that is.
Linking to an article I know is there with the correct url works still.
any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I assume your blog page has some sort of listing somewhere, maybe a getResources call? If you can't find it in your blog list template (as you're saying you only see a *content), it means the list is probably "hardcoded" in the blog list resource content field.
You'll want to find the chunks being used to output each blog entry on the lists and check which page parameter is used to construct the link. It should probably be *alias, and if it is and your aliases are correct you have some deeper trouble going on.
This is not a direct code question, however, I think it may be useful. After google-ing for a while, I can't find a definitive answer....
A while back, I built a rudimentary CMS for shcool. Image upload, gallery, text, a basic captcha, etc. Basically a blog that you could upload images to. My quesiton is this:
Could any of you clever ducks tell me what features a robust, solid, home-made CMS should contain? I don't want to make a super fancy pants sort of site, but I do want to flesh it out a little. My current job is in Sharepoint design, and I don't want to lose any of the PHP skills that course taught me.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Well.. The best product is a product that reaches the requirements of the customer.
But I would say:
Dynamic menu
Dynamic pages
Different type of pages - front page, posts, lists, media, gallery
Secure back end
Dynamic user configuration
A install script
Template editor, where you can define modules
Maybe a offline post editor, with a up-loader (Drag a .doc file in a folder, and the file is automatically added as a post on the page)
I'm just starting to evaluate joomla CMS as a tool to build out my personal site. I'd like to manage multiple sites/domains with one copy of joomla on one host. so I'll own mysite.com and myothersite.com, which will both point to the same host/joomla code. If I do this I need to be able to set which domain/site the content I add shows up on. For some sites the content will be on both for others it will be on only one. What would be ideal it to have some kind of filtering mechanism so I don't have to manually set where the content goes.
What would be ideal is for me to set tags on the content and each site can specify which taged content to show.
My last requirement is that I be able to have different pages on each site.
Is this possible or am I asking too much from a "free" CMS?
Thanks all
I don't know if there's a component that achieves what you're describing here. I use a multi-language component in some of my sites that shows translations, but it doesn't "suppress" articles that doesn't have references to a translation: it just says "No translations to this article". I know you're not asking for translations methods, but I think the Joomfish way of selecting content based in a chosen language would be what you wanted, but not based in languages, just domains.
The only component I know it would be able to suppress articles based in pre defined parameters (in its case the language), is the Joomfish's "Table Localization Plugin", but you need to be a Joomfish silver member paying $60 to Joomfish's developers.
You could write a component(see here for plugin documentation), that analyzing the domain, would suppress articles that shouldn't appear in that specific domain. But I think it's going yo be a lot of work. You would learn a lot of Joomla's architecture, though.
How Joomla displays its content (output) is controlled entirely by parameters. So if you can control what parameters are loading, you can create multiple displays per host
However, that may be overkill in this case. You can just easily hack your template. Just make it load a different menu for siteA and siteB. (The host is set in $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])
The menu on siteA could have a tagging component item, set to display articles tagged siteA.com. The siteB will have the same for its domain.
While there are extensions that will do what you describe (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/multiple-sites), Joomla is really designed for one site at a time. I've done setups where I use the same codebase for Joomla and manage it with version control, but I always end up launching multiple sites with individual databases.
However, I don't know of any CMS that inherently allows you to share articles across instances while keeping the data centralized. You may be looking at an extension (or your own customization) regardless of which platform you pick.
We had a similar problem with needing to share content across multiple Joomla! sites so we developed this extension: http://extensions.joomla.org/extension/simple-sharing
It is not very robust in terms of what it can share but it does let you share Articles across multiple sites and choose which sites and categories those articles get published into. I hope it works for you.
Thanks!