Forums / Setup & design / EZ Publish blog functionality
Helge Nordgård
Thursday 09 November 2006 4:29:24 pm
Hi.
Over the years i have been switching from different blog/cms tools to power my blog and giving ez a look i was pretty impressed with the flexibility and power of customization it appear to offer. The main reason i want to run a solution like ez for my blogging needs is becouse i want to give my blog a unique layout, and not the layouts you often find with the standard wordpress/movabletype/[insert your favorite mainstream blog tool here], and custom tailor it to my needs.
At first glance EZ doesnt seem to support blogging very well. I've ran a test install of ez with the blog package but it doesnt offer features like trackback pinging for instance. Is this a feature that will be implemented, or is it possible to fetch this functionality via a package somewhere else? I'm whery curious about this, and awaiting (positive, hopefully) replies with excitement.
Regards Helge
Matthew Carroll
Thursday 09 November 2006 9:04:16 pm
No, ez's "blog" functionality isn't very advanced... it you want all the latest stuff like trackback / pingback, ez doesn't have that. If it's just a blog you want, you may be better off with dedicated blog software. I am a huge fan of ezpublish - it is so powerful and extensible - but i still use wordpress when someone asks me to help them set up a blog - there are many things ez can do that wordpress canot, but for a blog, wordpress wins hands down imho.
Matthew
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Jeroen Sangers
Friday 10 November 2006 1:19:38 am
eZ Publish is amazingly flexible, and can be customized to support any type of content you want. However, usually a CMS specifically built for one content type will usually fit better when you only have that contact type. For blogs I usually install WordPress or Movable Type, but if the blog is part of a bigger site I use the blogging function of eZ Publish. Note that you can add trackback functionality to eZ Publish through the eZ Trackback contrib (http://ez.no/community/contribs/applications/ez_trackback).
Xavier Dutoit
Monday 13 November 2006 2:06:46 am
Hi,
As was about to mention the extensions, but I wasn't quick enough ;)
ez benefits: very flexible and if you need a feature, you can write (or find an already written) extension to do what you want.
dedicated blog system benefit: all the devs are focused on blog related features, so that's likely that some features are better integrated/ already existing and that wouldn't be the case with ez
X+
P.S. For tagging features, I used http://ez.no/community/contribs/datatypes/enhanced_objectrelation
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