Hi Mohamed,
Obviously, I am +1 for the new default, since it is also my proposal. Regarding the image
for the introductory blog post, I would use a more photo like an image, to be more
demonstrative, illustrating blogging, writing, office or whatever, maybe with an X in it
somewhere. Be careful about the copyrights of the image, of course.
Thanks,
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Denis Gervalle
SOFTEC sa - CEO
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 14:55, Mohamed Boussaa <mohamed.boussaa(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Hello XWikiers,
Starting from the version 9.4 of the Blog application we introduced the
notion of blog post layouts (see details here:
http://extensions.xwiki.org/
xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Blog%20Application).
Currently when a user creates/edit a blog he has the possibility to select
the layout of the blog posts, 2 layouts are available FTM: the Calendar
layout (default) and the image layout.
The image layout uses an image thumbnail in order to allow a more visual
and appealing display of the blog posts this is why an image selector was
added to the blog post form.
Because the default layout is 'Calendar' the image selector on the blog
post form can be confusing for the user because the uploaded image doesn't
appear anywhere.
This proposal is about changing the default blog posts layout from
'Calendar' to 'image' in order to avoid the confusion.
I propose to:
- Change the default post layout to 'image' layout for new blogs
- Change the layout of the default Blog to 'image' layout
- Add an image to the introduction blog post created when installing the
blog app. Find attached some examples of images that can be used on the
introduction post.
- On the blog post form add a short description to the image selector to
explain the objective of the image.
*Introduction blog post images*
*1) *
*2)*
*3) *
*4)*
**
WDYT?
Thanks,
Mohamed