The maintainer mentions in the module description that he would like to include support for a blog description. I'd like to vote in favor for this.

This thread is meant as a small discussion on how best to implement this.

One way would be to include a form similar to the blog title where you can choose a profile field to populate the blog description. The description could then be shown directly under the title when viewing the blog landing page (i.e. blog/[uid]).

However, I'd prefer more flexibility, hence Views integration. Would it be possible to include Views field handlers for the blog title and the blog description? Then I'd be able to make a block with the blog title and description and have it shown whereever I choose.

I'm asking here to hear other opinions on how best to implement this feature. I have some PHP knowledge and some Views knowledge, but I'm no expert, so also I'd like to hear if this way is at all possible. As I understand it this module is not introducing new tables, so is it at all possible to make field handlers for the blog title and blog description?

Marcus

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remi commented
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This is postponed until I have more time to work on this. Anyone who's willing to jump in and contribute code for this is more than welcome.

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Also, I'd like to add that I will probably never implement the Views API in this module. I'm quite sure it's already possible to create views that imitate the listings of the Blog module, and profile fields also can be used in a view.