OpenWGA Enterprise Blogs 2.3: Customizable by design
This week we released version 2.3 of our OpenWGA Enterprise Blog plugin, retrievable via the Download Page or - preferrably - the OpenWGA 5.4 Plugin Store that is integrated to the admin client. This version has quite a number of exciting features including the ability to import Wordpress blogs, a dedicated content module to display blog postings in other applications and support for Gravatar Images on Comments.
The most important part of it however is that it is our first OpenWGA application that is customizable by design, using a new OpenWGA 5.4 feature called "design overlays". Lets have a look at what this means and how this makes it easy for you to develop your own flavor of blog design while still using our predefined functionalities.
So we want to setup some new blog. We create a new OpenWGA application in the admin client and use the design of the OpenWGA blog plugin. However now with version 2.3 there is one additional setting that can be specified here:
The design directory for customization allows you to specify a design directory from the "designs" folder of your OpenWGA runtime. If specified - you may still chose "none" if you do not want to use this feature - the chosen directory will be the place where you can customize the blog that is installed, for example to create your own blog theme or add custom functionalities to it.
On to the next page...