Are there going to be Meta Info fields (description, keywords) in Blogg-X so that you don't have to log in to your Joomla website to fill in those fields after publishing with Blogg-X ?

Any news? Thanks.

Thank you so much. Looking forward to it...

Hi Chris. other folks,

I'm so tired of logging in and posting with jceeditor I've been looking at the options. For 90% of my posts I just need some simple features, all of which blogg-x does except for being able to enter the metadata fields (description and keywords). If it had this I would be jumping for joy right now (and clicking on the donation button) but unfortunately it doesn't get you much if you have to post with blogg-x, then you have to log into your site and edit the metadata with the site editor.

Any chance of seeing this anytime soon? Or maybe some workaround. I was thinking of looking at your server mambot, and maybe adding code to extract metadata keywords and description from the text of the message. Something like:

{metadata description: blah blah blah}
{metadata keywords: joomla, blog-x, etc}

I'm a long time c, c++, apps and embedded systems programmer, but just started looking at php and joomla api a few days ago, so it may take me a bit to do it. Any thoughts on whether that would be a reasonable approach, or better yet, when you might release the metadata support?

Thanks so much for the work in this area, it is very much needed.

Cheers,
Gary

Gary, Joshua, Chris,

I looked at the blogg-x mambot for multilanguage support, but I can't do very much with it without access to the user interface in Blogg-x. The metadata has a much better chance of succes, if you can extract the text automatically. If Chris is OK, I'd like to take at shot at it to try to change the mambot to automatically extract metadata, but I need some idea's:
- Do I only extract metadata for a new article, and don't update for updated articles, or do I update the metadata each time the article is updated (I'll probably put a switch in the configuration file)
- I need some suggestions for what to generate and where, I propose a configuration file on the server in the Blogg-x component directory with (personalized) "standard" keywords and description data that are "always" added, and some rules for adding article-specific metadata.
- Presumably, I extract the author and the title, but what else? anybody have a suggestion on how to format all this?
- I would imagine something like a section of "text pairs" in the config file, where if the first text is contained in the article, the second text (defaults to the first) is included in the metadata. Is this useful?

Hope you all have some suggestions, keep in mind that I can't touch the user interface, as I don't have the source code. This means that choices will always be site-specific (out of the configuration file), but of course you can "update" the configuration file with FTP if you want to.

I'll post the result somewhere here, just don't expect heroic efforts during the holidays...

Willem