Documentation

This TopicFunction is based on Applications/BlogApp/RenderBlogEntries (and calls that topic) but adds filtering by Author. It also filters by CATegory and/or TAG.

Parameters

• AUTHOR: Blog Author to display.
• SKIP: offset into the archive
• LIMIT: number of postings to show at max
• CAT: categories to extract (optional)
• TAG: tagged entries to be extracted (optional)
• STICKY: a pattern the Sticky field must match to list the posting see the "Sticky" definition in Blog Entry (optional)
• NOSTICKY: same as STICKY but with inverse logic
• FROM_TIME: lower boundary of timespan to display in epoch seconds
• TO_TIME: uppwer boundary of timespan to display in epoch seconds
• ONLYTEASER: switch "on" to just render the teaser section; defaults to rendering the full posting

Implementation

%STARTINCLUDE%<!-- -->
<noautolink>
%DBQUERY{
  "TopicType=~'\bBlogEntry\b' %IF{"defined Author" then=" AND Author = '%URLPARAM{"Author"}%'"}%
   AND State != 'unpublished'
   AND topic != 'WebTopicEditTemplate'
   %IF{"'%FROM_TIME{default=""}%' != ''" then="AND publishdate >= '%FROM_TIME%'"}%
   %IF{"'%TO_TIME{default=""}%' != ''" then="AND publishdate < '%TO_TIME%'"}%
   %IF{"'%CAT{default=""}%' != ''" then="AND topic ISA '%CAT%'"}%
   %IF{"'%TAG{default=""}%' != ''" then="AND Tag=~'\b%TAG%\b'"}%
   %IF{"'%STICKY{default=""}%' != ''" then="AND Sticky=~'\b%STICKY%\b'"}%
   %IF{"'%NOSTICKY{default=""}%' != ''" then="AND !(Sticky=~'\b%NOSTICKY%\b')"}%
  "
  limit="%LIMIT{default="5"}%" 
  skip="%SKIP{default="0"}%" 
  sort="publishdate" 
  reverse="on" 
  hidenull="on"
  web="%BASEWEB%" 
  header="%IF{"'%STICKY{default=""}%' != ''" then="<div class='blogEntriesSticky'>"}%"
  format="<div class='blogEntry'>
    <div class='foswikiTopicInfo'>
      <h1>
        <div class='blogCommentCount foswikiRight'>
        $percntDBCALL{\"Applications.BlogApp.RenderNumberOfComments\"
          THETOPIC=\"$web.$topic\"
          COMMENTSYSTEM=\"$expand(preferences.COMMENTSYSTEM or '%COMMENTSYSTEM{default="metacomment"}%')\"
        }$percnt</div>
        [[$web.$topic]] 
        $percntIF{\"'$expand(State)' = 'unpublished'\"
          then=\"<span class='foswikiAlert foswikiSmall'>(%TRANSLATE{"unpublished"}%)</span>\"
        }$percnt<!-- -->
        $percntREDDOT{\"$web.$topic\"}$percnt<!-- -->
        <div class='foswikiTopicSummary'>$expand(Summary')</div>
      </h1>
      %IF{"'%STICKY{default=""}%' = ''"  
         then="$percntDBCALL{\"Applications.BlogApp.RenderBlogEntries\" section=\"revinfo\"}$percnt" 
      }%<!-- -->
    </div>
    <div class='blogText hyphenate clearfix'>
$percntDBCALL{\"$web.$topic\" 
   $percntIF{\"'%ONLYTEASER{default="off"}%'='on' AND '$expand(_sections)'!=''\" 
      then=\"section=\\"teaser\\"\"
   }$percnt
}$percnt 
       <div class='blogMore'>[[$web.$topic][%TRANSLATE{"Read more"}%]]</div>
    </div>
    </div>"
   footer="%IF{"'%STICKY{default=""}%' != ''" then="</div>"}%
     $percntDBCALL{\"Applications.BlogApp.RenderBlogEntries\" 
       section=\"pagination%IF{"'%STICKY{default=""}%'!=''" then="DISABLED"}%\" 
       warn=\"off\"
       LIMIT=\"%LIMIT{default="5"}%\"  
       SKIP=\"%SKIP{default="0"}%\"  
       COUNT=\"$count\" 
       CLASS=\"blogBottomPagination\"
       PARAMS=\"%IF{
           "'%STICKY{default=""}%'!=''" then="&sticky=%STICKY%"
         }%%IF{
           "'%CAT{default=""}%'!=''" then="&catname=%CAT%"
         }%\"
     }$percnt<!-- -->"
}%<!-- -->
</pre>
</noautolink>
<!-- -->%STOPINCLUDE%

Test

Calls to 'RenderBlogsByAuthor'

• FrontPageViewTemplate

Copyright

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