LemonStand Documentation

Blog module

LemonStand includes a simple blog module, which allows you to add blog features to your store. Below is a list of features implemented in the blog module:

• Blog post categories (no tagging)
• Blog posts in HTML format. Each post can belong to multiple categories. The HTML editor is configurable.
• Commenting with moderation
• Comments email notifications
• Comments email subscriptions (allows visitors to subscribe to email comment notifications of a specific post)
• RSS feeds for posts and comments
• SEO-friendly URLs
• As usual in LemonStand - any custom design of the front-end blog pages
• API for accessing blog posts and categories

• Implementing the blog archive page - explains how to implement a page for displaying all published posts from all categories.
• Displaying a blog category list - explains how you can display a list of blog post categories.
• Category page - explains how to create a page for displaying a list of blog posts belonging to a specific category.
• Blog post page - explains how to build the blog post page.
• Adding the comment form - explains how to implement a comment form form on the blog post page.
• Implementing RSS channels - explains how you can add the posts and comments RSS channels.
• Configuring the new comment notifications - explains how to create and configure the new comment notification email template and how to create the Unsubscribe page.
• Tips and Tricks - demonstrates some API tricks which you may want to implement on your website.
  • Displaying a list of recent posts - explains how you can display a specific number of recent posts.
• Enabling the recent comments dashboard report - explains how to add the recent comments mini-report to the Dashboard.
• Blog API - contains a list of blog module classes with detailed descriptions.
  • Blog_Post class - represents a blog post.
  • Blog_Category class - represents a blog category.
  • Blog_Comment class - represents a blog comment.

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