Jan
12
Written by:
Dylan Barber
1/12/2010 2:06 AM
I installed the new DNN blog on a test install again today. The beta 3 is really shaping up to be a nice package. Its sort of late to add my 2 cents now but I will anyway.
The ‘Recent Entries’ and ‘Recent Comments’ modules might want to be split out into their own Module instances and not part of the overall Blog module. The reason I say this is when setting up a blog in a larger site. I wouldn’t set these on the blog page these go to something like the home page. Putting them as their own module instance would make it easier for users to move those around and have them where portal builders want.
If we now have categories is there really a need for child blogs? This is a feature that I have always found a little hard to use. I think it has some validity but categories seems to be more mainstream and understandable.
I did not see anything on any roadmap but I also wondered if it was ever going to be possible to have multiple people manage one blog. We use the blog for a lot of communication and we have to have a shared login to manage that – not a big deal but a bit of a hassle when working in a larger group. Where if I could simply allow users to publish to a specific blog it seems like it would solve a few problems (like live writer not seeing all the blogs etc.)