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@ERIKREAGAN. ENGINE SUMMIT . OCT
CHANNELS & RELATED GROUPS
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+*Blog*+
This Channel is (obviously) the site's blog. It is a pretty generic blog setup.
* 1 Category Group is used
* The Channel has it's own Template Group with a few templates
* The default Status Group is used
* 6 Custom Fields are used
** blog_meta_description (Text Input, not required, searchable, no formatting)
** blog_introduction (Textarea, required, searchable, XHTML formatting)
** blog_thumbnail (Text Input, not required, not searchable, no formatting, uses file chooser)
** blog_tags (Text Input, not required, searchable, no formatting, basic implementation of "tags" for our
entries)
** blog_gallery (Matrix with File Chooser & Text Input, Maximum of 10 rows)
** blog_full_content (Wygwam, uses standard toolbar & Default Upload Directory for uploads)
The Blog has the following pages on the site:
* Blog landing page (/blog)
* Archive page (/blog/archive)
* Authors Page (/blog/authors)
* Categories list (/blog/categories)
* Single Entries (/blog/blog-title-here)
Each template used in the pages above are discussed in more detail in the Tempalting section of this document.