EZ Publish blog functionality

Author Message

Helge NordgÄrd

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

http://carroll.org.uk

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

http://www.sydesy.com

Powered by eZ Publish™ CMS Open Source Web Content Management. Copyright © 1999-2014 eZ Systems AS (except where otherwise noted). All rights reserved.

eZ debug

Timing: Jan 18 2025 22:13:32
Script start
Timing: Jan 18 2025 22:13:32
Module start 'layout'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 22:13:32
Module start 'content'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 22:13:33
Module end 'content'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 22:13:33
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime1.1053 sec
Peak memory usage4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries64

Timing points:

CheckpointStart (sec)Duration (sec)Memory at start (KB)Memory used (KB)
Script start 0.00000.0050 587.9141152.6250
Module start 'layout' 0.00500.0026 740.539139.4453
Module start 'content' 0.00761.0966 779.9844632.5391
Module end 'content' 1.10410.0011 1,412.523412.1641
Script end 1.1052  1,424.6875 

Time accumulators:

 Accumulator Duration (sec) Duration (%) Count Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache0.00310.2845160.0002
Check MTime0.00120.1115160.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection0.00080.069310.0008
Mysqli_queries1.042594.3171640.0163
Looping result0.00070.0622620.0000
Template Total1.071897.020.5359
Template load0.00190.174020.0010
Template processing1.069896.794620.5349
Template load and register function0.00010.009210.0001
states
state_id_array0.00090.083710.0009
state_identifier_array0.00120.104420.0006
Override
Cache load0.00160.1470220.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value0.00110.101040.0003
Fetch class attribute name0.00120.108880.0002
XML
Image XML parsing0.00390.352640.0010
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute0.00000.001280.0000
General
dbfile0.00240.2213340.0001
String conversion0.00000.000640.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

UsageRequested templateTemplateTemplate loadedEditOverride
1node/view/full.tplfull/forum_topic.tplextension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tplEdit templateOverride template
4content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl<No override>extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tplEdit templateOverride template
4content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl<No override>extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tplEdit templateOverride template
4content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl<No override>extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tplEdit templateOverride template
1print_pagelayout.tpl<No override>extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tplEdit templateOverride template
 Number of times templates used: 14
 Number of unique templates used: 5

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs