Thread

I am setting up a blog site in EE. This site has 15 different people with their own blogs, and it has been decided that the blog name will be included in the URL. For example:

http://www.example.com/blogs/bloggers-name/article-title

So, a post called “My Latest Blog Article” by Steve would appear as:

http://www.example.com/blogs/steve/my-lastest-blog-article/

The default behavior in EE doesn’t seem to support this out-of-the-box. The only way I can think to achieve this is to make a new Weblog named after each blogger and then create one template in the “blogs” template group for each one of them.

Of course, I could probably avoid making a template for each blogger by making one fits-for-all template which accesses the {segment_2} variable. Ideally, though, I would only want to have to make one fits-for-all weblog, too. I can’t really see an obvious way to do this, keeping each bloggers blog separate, though.

Any ideas? 😊

Ideally, though, I would only want to have to make one fits-for-all weblog, too. I can’t really see an obvious way to do this, keeping each bloggers blog separate, though.

Why not simply filter by username? And using a url_segment would be a very good idea here, I think.

Why not simply filter by username? And using a url_segment would be a very good idea here, I think.

Ok, thanks Ingmar, this would probably work for the majority of the blogs we have. However, something I forgot to mention is that a couple of the bloggers have more than one blog, under different names. For example, Steve has his own blog and also “Steve’s Tips and Tricks”. What I’d like to do is have:

http://www.example.com/blogs/steve/article-name

and

http://www.example.com/blogs/steves-tips-and-tricks/article-name

...both accessible by Steve from his own login. Creating two usernames for one user would not really be a great solution.

I thought of making a custom field (a dropdown) with a list of all of the blog names in it… but that would make it too easy for one blogger to accidentally post something in someone else’s blog.

Anyone have any idea how to do this?? 😊