You use the Blogs widget to display blogs on your website pages. You select what content to display and then specify how blogs are listed and displayed individually.
The Blogs widget can be used along with Blog post widget. You can configure the widgets to work together and once you click on а blog title to see all blog posts for the currently selected blogs (listed in the Blog posts widget). To achieve this, configure the Blogs widget Open single item in... and select a page with a Blog post widget. Then configure the Blog post widget to show posts From currently opened blog.
PREREQUISITES: You created at least one blog item. For more information, see Create blogs.
List settings define how blogs are listed by the Blogs widget. Choose one of the following options:
Use paging Divides the blogs into pages. In the input field, specify how many blogs per page to display.
Use limit Displays only a limited number of blogs. In the input field, specify how many blogs to display.
No limit and paging Displays all blogs that meet the requirements and filters you set in the Content tab.
Sort blogs By default, last published blog items are listed on top. You can select a different sorting criterion:
List template Select the template you want to use to list blogs on the webpage.
CSS classes Expand More options section to specify CSS file names and apply additional CSS classes to the Blogs widget.
Single item settings define how individual blogs are displayed. Choose one of the following options:
Open single item in... Select one of the following options:
Auto-generated page When you click a blog, it is displayed in an automatically generated page with the same layout as the list page.
Selected existing page… From the list of existing pages, select the specific page in which blogs are displayed.
NOTE: To display a blog in a page, the page must have a Blogs widget added in advance.
Detail template Select the template you want to use to display blogs on the webpage.
In Advanced settings, you specify individual properties of the widget:
DetailPageMode Defines the location where you should be redirected when you click a blog title. Available options are:
DetailsPageId Gets the ID of the page you selected in the Selected existing page.. option in the Single item settings tab page.
DetailTemplateName Gets the template you selected in the Detail template dropdown menu in the Single item settings tab page.
ListTemplateName Gets the template you chose in the List template dropdown menu in the List settings tab page.
Model settings display all properties directly bound to the Blogs widget model. Access these properties by clicking the Model button in Advanced settings.
ContentViewDisplayMode By default, a single content item is displayed in Detail view. This property enables you to configure whether single content items are displayed in Detail or in List view by entering Detail or List, respectively.
DetailCssClass Gets and sets an additional CSS class to the detail view of a blog item.
DisplayMode Gets the value you selected in the Simple List settings tab page:
FilteredSelectionMode Defines whether to filter blog items depending on the blog posts they contain. Choose one of the following options:
NOTE: If you leave this property value empty, the default blogs provider is used.
SortExpression Adds additional sorting expression for the blogs. The default value is PublicationDate DESC.
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