New Blog Management Application

Hey everyone,
About a week and ago, we decided that the Blog Management in the Control Panel needed a makeover and was lacking several things

• Strong Functionality
• Rich Text Editor
• Friendly Ajax Interface (no page reload)
• Some updating of CSS & design.
• Tagging
• Ability to manage and edit multiple blogs at once.

All the above reasons were enough to suffice into a complete re-development of CP Blog.

Starting from scratch
Henry told me to tear up blog, rip out all the code, and create a new interface. Without wasting any time, I jumped right in and stripped the page to it's bones, and built a new, and lighter design around it. Along with that, we plugged in our still fairly new rich text editor class as seen on comments (and soon other parts of the site). Once I was done, I turned the rest over to Henry, and that's when the coding storm begun.

Old CP Blog: was comprised of one single php file a some minimal XML to grab your posts.
New CP Blog: is now compiled of seven different files!...1 Template File, 3 Ajax Module Files, 2 External Javascript files, and 1 css file all working together in this beautiful new application.

Big thanks
Big thanks goes to Henry on this feature, he really put a lot of time and effort into the code, along with it's incredible functionality - it came out fantastic!

Please go ahead and use it, and try to find any bugs. You can easily create multiple new posts to test out the management and editing parts of the application.

Check it out:
Manage Blogs


Screenshots:

First stage of "Manage Blogs" - Displaying Latest Blog Entries


Opened, and Editing multiple blogs simultaneously

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There is my testing, a few things didn't work for me, such as the Font Type and List.

However, it is very nice and professional looking, just fix the bugs and thats the blogs done

Yeah that's actually not part of the blog its part if the rich text editor class that gets included with blog. So it's something we will just fix on a global scale. Thanks for trying it out. If you find any other bugs let us know!

That's sick! Big improvent on the old blogsystem, props!

One thing though...

Hmm, I'm assuming it's because you do not have any blog posts. Henry, what do you say?

I'll fix.

Yep it's alllll good

it looks soo slick i'll use it for a full story of dreamhack one I get the time for it I have a long-way friend over at my house a few days now

Thanks, oh nice hey Eric Asp's friend!

Will be a bit more userfriendly if that second field would be empty onfocus.

Good call!

Not really. What if you try editing after making a change.

I'm willing to sacrifice it not saying anything but def not onfocus.

Yeah actually henry is right. You know for example when we use the onfocus='' on the side panel login is just wrong. There is a way to make it recognize the default value, and only do the onfocus when there is a default value. So if you made a change and went back to the field it would not onfocus='' to what you had there.

Again, henry's solution is the easiest with not having anything in value of the field by default, the field does have a label already anyway.

Yea, that would be the best imo. Just like the google searchbar thing in FF.

Thanks for the feedback bud

You're welcome.