Almost perfect blog package
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I'm adding an update to my review below.
I bought this add-on in December when I was working on a website. Michael was wonderful about getting back with support quickly.
I got sidetracked with other client's work and put my website on the backburner. Fast forward to today, April, 5 months later and I finally got back to my site and finished implementing the C5DK tutorials so my blog would work just as claimed.
I came back to Michael with more questions and he walked me through some minor details and straightened me out on what was native to his add-on vs Concrete5 native and I was able to get my site complete.
I'm going through each page and implementing Open Graph for sharing now and ran into one more hiccup but because of what I learned from Michael was able to figure it out on my own.
The hiccup occurred while using the Facebook Developer Debugger. I had told Facebook where to pull all the images and copy from but Facebook was still pulling in the thumbnail which wouldn't allow "shares" to post correctly. to anyone in the future that runs into this problem....go to the attributes page and turn off/uncheck "thumbnail".
Works perfectly now and I can be a lot less stressed.
Thank you C5DK,
John
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Posted December 1, 2017:
Michael and his team have been very helpful in getting this add-on running on my website and I believe they've gone above and beyond to help with minor glitches when I did a C5 update that crashed C5DK.
The documentation to get the package installed was very thorough and worked spot on at my first try.
I'd like to see the ability in updates to have:
- an About the Author placed at the end of each blog as we've invited some guest bloggers and it would be nice to have their pick and a small bio
- a clickable headline (Michael, to clarify, the only way to read the blog is to click on READ MORE. It would be nice to be able to click anywhere in the block containing the blog image, blog headline and blog copy in addition to Read More)
- an option to center images when editing in text mode
Great add-on! Well thought out and great use of stacks and blocks that I'd never have figured out on my own.
THANK YOU!
I bought this add-on in December when I was working on a website. Michael was wonderful about getting back with support quickly.
I got sidetracked with other client's work and put my website on the backburner. Fast forward to today, April, 5 months later and I finally got back to my site and finished implementing the C5DK tutorials so my blog would work just as claimed.
I came back to Michael with more questions and he walked me through some minor details and straightened me out on what was native to his add-on vs Concrete5 native and I was able to get my site complete.
I'm going through each page and implementing Open Graph for sharing now and ran into one more hiccup but because of what I learned from Michael was able to figure it out on my own.
The hiccup occurred while using the Facebook Developer Debugger. I had told Facebook where to pull all the images and copy from but Facebook was still pulling in the thumbnail which wouldn't allow "shares" to post correctly. to anyone in the future that runs into this problem....go to the attributes page and turn off/uncheck "thumbnail".
Works perfectly now and I can be a lot less stressed.
Thank you C5DK,
John
+++++++
Posted December 1, 2017:
Michael and his team have been very helpful in getting this add-on running on my website and I believe they've gone above and beyond to help with minor glitches when I did a C5 update that crashed C5DK.
The documentation to get the package installed was very thorough and worked spot on at my first try.
I'd like to see the ability in updates to have:
- an About the Author placed at the end of each blog as we've invited some guest bloggers and it would be nice to have their pick and a small bio
- a clickable headline (Michael, to clarify, the only way to read the blog is to click on READ MORE. It would be nice to be able to click anywhere in the block containing the blog image, blog headline and blog copy in addition to Read More)
- an option to center images when editing in text mode
Great add-on! Well thought out and great use of stacks and blocks that I'd never have figured out on my own.
THANK YOU!
As an answer for your wishes:
1. I have actually played around with this a few times, but it will demand a new package/functionality just like the "Page Attribute Display" block that the core already supply. But this block is only able to show page attributes. So for having the User Attributes available on a page, a new add-on has to be developed.
2. "A clicable headline". I do not think I understand what you are thinking about.
3. A center image option in CKEditor. That would be nice. But because the CKEditor is not our software, we have no way to do this at the moment.