Setting up a single, basic wordpress like blog?

[David N.]

I'm trying to set up a simple blog. I am the only writer for now and perhaps I'll invite guest writers in the future. Similar to the Blogs on this site:

https://invisioncommunity.com/news/ 

I'm not sure if it's best to do it in Pages or Blogs?

I've tried doing it in Blogs however it seems there's one level I don't need in the hierarchy (the possibility to have multiple blogs), and it confuses me?

Let's say I want two categories, News and Tutorials. It seems like now I have to create a blog inside the category, and then an entry inside the blog, so the tree structure is:

domainname.com/blogs/category/blog-name/entry-name

The breadcrumb is (I've named both the category and blog the same thing, not knowing what to name the blog):

However I want a single blog with multiple category, and I'd like to see this:

domainnamecom/blogs/category/entry-name

Just like on this site for example:

invisioncommunity.com/news/community-management/what-successful-communities-do-r1241/

PS: And how do I rename "blogs" to "news" or something else? Thanks!

 

Edited May 12, 2022 by Jamynee
Added breadcrumbs image

[Nathan Explosion]

This site doesn't use Blogs for its blogs, it uses Pages. 'News' is the name of the page containing the Pages database (using categories) which contains the content.

Edited May 12, 2022 by Nathan Explosion

[Sonya*]

• IPS Blogs are suitable for the community members blogs
• Pages are suitable for editorial content

With Pages you can build any kind of databases https://invisionify.com/fxpages/databases/

 

Edited May 12, 2022 by Sonya*

[David N.]

Thank you both. I'm disappointed to see how difficult it is to create a wordpress like blog in Invision Community. Seeing the blog on this site I assumed that I would get the same functionality and look from the Invision software without too much tweaking or 3rd party plug-ins. 

So I'm going to try to use the default "Articles" page I suppose but creating a blog-like home page with boxes representing each article (rather than a forum-like list of articles names) is a little more challenging that it would seem. 

🤔

[Sonya*]

9 minutes ago, Jamynee said:

So I'm going to try to use the default "Articles" page I suppose but creating a blog-like home page with boxes representing each article (rather than a forum-like list of articles names)

This is there out of the box. Just change the setting of your database to 

It is not that pretty, but better than a data list.

Edited May 12, 2022 by Sonya*

[opentype]

It’s a standard feature with several templates to choose from. 

(But be warned: it’s for the homepage as requested. It won’t apply to individual categories.)

[David N.]

Thank you! However that gives me only one column? I meant a blog view like https://invisioncommunity.com/news/ with 2 or 3 columns, one box for each article with a featured image. 

[Sonya*]

Choose another template for the Articles template under Homepage Options:

Category 2 Column First Featured and so on is probably what you are looking for.

[David N.]

19 minutes ago, Sonya* said:

Choose another template for the Articles template under Homepage Options:

AAaaah! Now we're getting somewhere. Thanks a lot @Sonya* !

[Matt]

You should definitely check out @opentype's fantastic Pages template packs and blocks

 

 

[David N.]

Great, thank you Matt, I'll check that out. 

[CheersnGears]

7 hours ago, Jamynee said:

Thank you both. I'm disappointed to see how difficult it is to create a wordpress like blog in Invision Community. Seeing the blog on this site I assumed that I would get the same functionality and look from the Invision software without too much tweaking or 3rd party plug-ins. 

So I'm going to try to use the default "Articles" page I suppose but creating a blog-like home page with boxes representing each article (rather than a forum-like list of articles names) is a little more challenging that it would seem. 

🤔

If you'd like, I use the Pages app to operate like wordpress, I'd be happy to help.

My page is CheersandGears.com - We Heart Cars

Edit: And I use @opentype's plug-ins to do it. 

Edited May 12, 2022 by CheersnGears