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| Tuesday, 08 May 2007 | |
 As you might have noticed, I have a special sidebar on the right side of the blog pages.This side bar is not provided by Joomla (maybe it should be a good idea to include that in the base Joomla install). I started by installing the BlogSideBar module and component by SVTechie but I never managed to have it working fine. I didn't wanted to install Mamblog or JomBlog, I was just willing to have a sidebar for a standard Joomla section. So I decided to digg into the code... I have started by modifying the Joomla com_content component to add the possibility to filter a section for a month, or a day. So I have updated the content component to understand additional parameters like year= , month= and day= when displaying a blogcategory or a blogsection, a feature that archivesection and category well support already. By doing this, the com_BlogSideBar (which was a modified copy of the com_content component) was not needed anymore. Then I simplified the mod_sidebar module by removing all the references to Mamblog. I removed a large part of the complexity and fixed the bugs I had in my configuration. Yeah, it works  There are still some problems with my sideBar. If you click on one article Read More button, the module shows then an empty sideBar. I don't know yet how to solve this. The question is, do I still want a sideBar if I click on one single article "Read More" button or not?
I think I will do this development in the coming weeks. Anyway, I have understood a lot on how Joomla works internally by looking into the code. I feel more an more confortable with it. I was wondering if anybody would be interested to have this sideBar released? If yes, drop me a comment here  Trackback(0)
Comments (13)
  written by Elizabeth Adams, 07-June-2007  written by Robin Mulkers, 08-June-2007
Woaw, what a long comment, I am impressed
 The commenting system is a component called Jom Comment. I didn't created it myself, you can get it from here: http://www.azrul.com/product/joomla_comment_system.html Only the author gets a notification E-mail in this version of Jom Comment. You can create a url in your comment like http://robin.mulkers.net Yeah, you are right, subscribe to this comment is the way you can get notified, you must then have an RSS reader installed on your system. If your blogging system supports trackback pings, you can just reference this trackback url in your blog and I will see your blog entry as a comment to mine in the trackback section. Jom Comment is pretty cool but it lacks certain features as you mention. I think if you contact its author, he might do it for you. Some of the features you are searching for might be already implemented in a commercial, more recent version of that product. written by Carolina Panthers Blog, 03-July-2008
I think do-follow adds new, refreshing points of view to a blog, making it seem more lively.
written by Kredyty, 06-September-2008
com_BlogSideBar - I'm also use it ;] Good component ;]
written by Ana | Dubai Art Galleries, 21-January-2009
I have got to try adding a sidebar as well in my joomla site, it would be interesting really. I usually see it in wordpress sites and have not really thought that it can be integrated in joomla.
written by Ana | Dubai Art Galleries, 21-January-2009
Hi Robin,
I love what you did with your sidebar and yes I'm interested to see it released. written by Robin Mulkers, 21-January-2009
Ok, I will put it in my to do list. I hope to have time to do it within a month.
I want to pass in the code and make it much cleaner than it is now  written by best texas holdem, 25-March-2009
I admit, I have not been on this webpage in a long time... however it was another joy to see It is such an important topic and ignored by so many, even professionals.,
Also I want to know that how can we remove no follow tag from the blogger, written by dino, 18-May-2009
So far I've manage to download only Joomla 1.0 -http://rapid4me.com/?q=Joomla 1.0 - and am waiting for updates.
written by gute Kasino Codes, 02-June-2009
Wow, that would be very nice, as the joomla is the fastest growing platform which would be extremely unique to make the website and quite easy to manage.
written by FTLwpress, 08-January-2010
I don't know, but maybe joomla is coming obsolete nowadays. I've stop using them since 2007 and got no idea if they are upgrading their system/plugins/etc or not.
 written by Robin Mulkers, 11-January-2010
Joomla coming obsolete? Interesting, what makes you think that?
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Oh, yes, yes, yes! to the sidebar! I love what I call the "New York Times" 3-column format and I'm having trouble finding it for Joomla! ... but I'm just getting started in blogging so that might have something to do with it, too. I got here through Barrie North.
And your comment box! I have this mental list: (1) dofollow! (2) html! (3) smilies! (4) captcha! (5) check subscribe to comment! (6) enable reply to comment (7) enable avatars in comment ... The Magnificent Seven! ... and I had just about given up hope! ... until I saw yours! ... it's got most of them!
Will it print the date with comments? I've noticed on Barrie's blog that dates that things got posted seem to be absent.
I'm absolutely delighted with the basic html and smilies ... can this comment box take a substantial amount of text and survive? So that people could actually leave a "robust" comment if they wanted to? Also, will it enable the visitor to create anchor text with "a href" as well as type in a naked url?
Can a little checkbox be added down at the bottom so people can have email notifications sent to them if anybody else responds to this particular thread? Or is that essentially what the "Subscribe to this comment's feed" does? If so, that's pretty clever! (But I've never subscribed to any RSS before, so I'm going to start with this one and see what happens ... eeek! it's jibberish! what am I supposed to do with that code!)
Can a "reply to reply" capability be added? So that, when you reply to somebody's comment, your reply gets published with their comment, instead of way down at the bottom of the pile of all the comments?
Can avatars be added to comments? Like with MyAvatars in WordPress? That works with MyBlogLog to enable avatars in comments?
•••> Can you explain that "trackback" thing up there? Or recommend where I can go to get more info? I've heard that trackback is one of few the things Joomla! doesn't do, but you seem to be doing it so I don't know what to think.
•••> Can one put a "U COMMENT I FOLLOW" logo up there so that people will know, if they comment here, they will get a link back to their site? See http://randaclay.com/blog/i-follow/
•••> What about a comment rating system? What I would particularly like is the 5-star variety, like they have over at AssociatedContent, where you rate an article 1-5 depending on how well you liked it. I've seen "thumbs up, thumbs down" systems on comments here and there on the "blogosphere", but I haven't seen anybody using a 5-star system, and I really prefer it.
Anyway, nice job on your sidebar! I do hope you continue with it.
Warmest regards ...
Elizabeth