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TechTime Blog Theme

Added by Ed Letifov, last edited by Ed Letifov on Jun 09, 2008  (view change)
Name TechTime Blog Theme
Version 0.7.50
Product Versions v2.4-v2.8.1
Author(s) Ed Letifov, Irina Mosina
Homepage http://techtime.co.nz/x/FIG8
Price free
License Freeware / Open Source (BSD)
JavaDocs N/A
IssueTracking http://techtime.co.nz/display/TECHTIME/Tracker
Download JAR http://techtime.co.nz/download/attachments/22872067/techtime-blog-theme-0.7.50.jar
Download Source http://techtime.co.nz/download/attachments/22872067/techtime-blog-theme-0.7.50-src.zip

Description/Features

An attempt to implement a Blog theme for Confluence.

The theme attempts to mimic what many people has come to associate with a "blog".

The Theme is morphing according to user's permissions
It supports distinctly:

  • anonymous users
  • authenticated users
  • those with page create rights
  • those with news create rights
  • space admins and global admins

Consider having special groups to denote those who can create content, those who can administer the space and regular users.

Installation

The following are currently required to use the theme:
Install the following plugins via Confluence Plugin Manager

  1. Linking Plugin
  2. Adaptavist Content Formatting Macros
  3. HTML Plugin

Disable the following plugins

  1. HTML Macros
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Usage

  1. Create New Space
    Choose TechTime Blog Theme
  2. Upload the space logo via Space Admin/Change Space Logo
    The Logo file should be 800px in width to be in style with the theme
  3. Add a page with name "About" with any text about your blog
  4. Add a page with name "Featured Articles" with any list of featured articles

Examples

See the theme in action

Version History

  • Blog Theme Release 0.7.50 — Support for Confluence 2.8.x, rendering improvements
  • Blog Theme Release 0.6.23 — Anonymous user handling, rendering fixed, cleanup, license
  • Blog Theme Release 0.5.50 — Archive Links, more advanced Featured Links default page, various rendering fixes
  • Blog Theme Release 0.4.28 — Layout rendering bugfixes
  • Blog Theme Release 0.3.8 — Improvements to front page, Comment mode, layout bugs
  • Blog Theme Release 0.2.15 — Color customizations, enhanced About/Featured Articles, removed dependencies, bug fixes
  • Blog Theme Release 0.1.16 — Initial theme release

Open Issues

These are known issues to be fixed in future versions:

  • Search via "GO" goes to the space search result page which doesn't have space styles applied
  • Further search goes to the global search results page
  • When in Rich-Text mode comment box does not fit and is rendered with scrollbars
  • Anonymous user can still edit pages, blogposts and attachments if one enters the URL directly
  • Anonymous add page and add news modes look ugly
  • Small shift in rigt-side layout between main and view news page
  • Breadcrumbs for posts with long titles look ugly
  • Impossible to add Labels to a blogpost without going into an edit mode

Build from source

Take the source bundle, unzip, run "ant build" from within.

Screenshots

Screenshots

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Comments (7)

 

  1. Jul 24

    Olivier Jauze says:

    I can't install this plugin because I think it has been developed and compiled u...

    I can't install this plugin because I think it has been developed and compiled using a JDK 1.5. Unfortunately, my Confluence instance is deployed under the WebSphere Application Server v6.0.x (which is JDK 1.4 based). Could you please provide a version of this plugin compatibled with the JDK 1.4.

     The error I have when installing this plugin (though the plugin manager) is:

     *Error:*There was a problem loading the descriptor for module 'macro' in plugin 'TechTime Blog Theme'.  Class version is incompatible with current JVM: org.techtime.confluence.themes.blog.BlogArchiveLinksMacro

    1. Jul 24

      Ed Letifov says:

      Use the version 0.7.51 of the theme.

      Use the version 0.7.51 of the theme.

    2. Jul 24

      Ed Letifov says:

      Use the version 0.7.51 of the theme.

      Use the version 0.7.51 of the theme.

  2. Sep 03

    Tara Salmon says:

    Hi there, This is a really great plugin. We're using it for an internal blog an...

    Hi there,

    This is a really great plugin. We're using it for an internal blog and it looks great and is really easy to use.

    A few things that we are having trouble with though that would be great to get some help with:

    1. The RSS icon currently links to a generic Confluence feed rather than the blog space feed. How do we change it to the correct one?
    2. Also on RSS, I have tried adding the correct feed url to an RSS reader (Outlook 07) but it comes up with the error message: "Outlook cannot process the RSS content from [url]. The link may not point to a valid RSS source". Is this a problem with Confluence RSS feeds in general or is it linked to the template?
    3. Can we remove old archive links? The links go back to 2003 however we only launched the blog August 08...
    4. Can we remove the popular content table and labels tag cloud?
    5. Can we remove the 'Featured Articles' section?

    Also, what's the process for making changes to the template when the blog is already in operation. Does we just re upload the template and all the existing pages/posts and space colours, etc, are kept in tact?

    Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Tara

    1. Sep 03

      Ed Letifov says:

      Hello, Tara. I will enter these issues in our tracker here and get back to you w...

      Hello, Tara.
      I will enter these issues in our tracker here and get back to you with ETA for the updates. I can't promise it will be fast though but will do my best
      Thanks, Ed.

      1. Sep 03

        Tara Salmon says:

        Thanks very much Ed!

        Thanks very much Ed!

    2. Sep 03

      Ed Letifov says:

      Regarding update: This plugin is available via Confluence Plugin Repository so y...

      Regarding update: This plugin is available via Confluence Plugin Repository so you will just need to click Upgrade there. The pages/posts/colors are kept intact.