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Improved display options for blogs

November 17, 2021 Alkacon Software

For the display of blogs, Milestone 15 provides additional formatters that can be used for list and detail views.

The display of list headers for a blog differs greatly from other header types, such as detailed headers. In headers for blogs, for example, all formatting such as bold or italics is displayed. Line breaks, paragraph breaks, and links are also displayed as entered. 

The following elements can be used in the special blog display:

  • Articles
  • Decoy
  • Media

For blogs, the goal is to display the list as a continuous text. The layout arrangement of headline, text, and image is predetermined.

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Blog list view

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The blog display can be further customized using various element settings in the list.

The following element settings are specifically available for lists with blog teasers:

Visible paragraphs  

Determines how many paragraphs from the content are already displayed in the list.

Unlike most other list headers, there is no text truncation in the blog list header. Instead, at least the first paragraph is always displayed in full.

With this element setting, additional paragraphs after the first one can also be displayed directly in the list.

Optionally, all paragraphs can be displayed in the list, in which case there may be no need for a detailed display. In this case, if you enter ‘none’ for the button label, no link to the detailed display will be created, not even in the heading.

Show image zoom

This option is available for blog list teasers, as the image is not linked as it is with most other teaser types.

Show author

Optionally, the author of an article can already be displayed in the list.

Please note that the author is only available in the “Article” element. For the other elements that can be used with the blog, such as ‘Decoy’ or “Media,” it is not possible to specify an author. Therefore, no author is displayed in the list for these elements. 

Blog comment counter

This option allows you to display the number of comments for a blog entry directly in the list. This requires additional settings on the page, which are described below.

Blog comments

Comments for the blog can be implemented on the detail page using additional dynamic functions. With Milestone 15, the service provider Hyvor Talk was added as a new option.

To use the Blog comment counter element setting in the list, you need to drag the Hyvor Talk Comments dynamic function onto the list page and activate the Comment Counter Only option in the element settings. With Milestone 15, this special option is only available for the combination “Blog Teaser with Hyvor Talk Comments.”

Blog detail view

In addition to the special lead-in for the lists, there is also a special blog detail display. This corresponds to the layout of the blog list teaser, but of course displays all paragraphs of the article. 

A special feature here is seamless continued reading. When the user clicks on the “More” or “Continue reading...” link below the lead text in the list, the detail page jumps directly to the next paragraph when it loads. This means that the user does not have to scroll away from the text they have already read.

Note: To activate the special blog detail display on the detail page, it is necessary to set the element setting Detail container selection to the value Special main content as detail container in the corresponding container of the selected layout row.