I think I have a problem with my Blog. I upgraded to 4.08, and have reinstalled the latest version (3.04) of the blog module (to try to correct the problem). The problem I have is as follows:

On both the home page, and Blog page, I have the the module that shows the entry summaries, with the "Read More" link at the bottom of each entry. I thought that when you clicked on the "Read More" link, it would take the user to a new page containing the entire article. Instead, it loads the entire article on the page from which you clicked (i.e., if you click "Read More" from a summary on the home page, it reloads the home page with the whole article in place of the list of summaries, plus the comments feature. What I would like that to do is take the user out to a new page with the entire article.

My site is at www.windwardvillagemhp.com. I'd like it to function more like gizmodo.com where following the jump takes it to a wholly new page. I thought you could change a setting and accomplish this, but I've been through the "Blog Settings", Module settings and everything else I can think of to fix it, and I can't find it. Please help - I really need this to work in that fashion.

Don, thank you for the response - I appreciate it. I think I'm having a hard time explaining what I want the module to do. What I would like is to have the module on my home page (which is done). I want it to list the summaries of the articles (which its doing), but when a user clicks on the "Read More" link, I want them to be taken to a new page with the blog article on it. From an SEO standpoint, I think it makes more sense to have the full article maintained on a separate page with the title in the URL for the page? What I don't like about what my page is doing now is that there is a "Welcome" message at the top of the page, then the summaries. When someone clicks on the "Read More" link, they are still on the home page, with the welcome message at the top, but now the full article displayed on the page with the comments form at the bottom. I don't like the module rendering the whole article on the same page as the summaries - doesn't make much sense to me.

Is there someone who is selling, or has created a blog module that has the above-referenced functionality. I'd also like the blog module to paginate, but I understand that is not available in the current module.

Hi David,

I found a workaround to part of your problem.  Unfortunately, the blog module doesn't use the post title in the page when showing blog entries, so that's a limitation of the module that you could only work around by altering the source.

[Edit] We created a temporary workaround to this issue:  Temporary Fix for the DNN  Blog Title SEO Issue.

The part of your issue that you can work around without a change to the source is the ability to open a blog entry detail in a separate page.  You can achieve this by adding a custom Friendly URL entry in Host Settings.  In my portal, the home page has a Tab ID of 36 and a second instance of the blog module is added to Tab ID 54.  My entry in the Friendly URLs is as follows:

[^?]*/TabId/36/EntryID/(\d+)(.*)

~/Default.aspx?TabId=54&EntryID=$1

I move this above the following Friendly URL entry used by DNN

[^?]*/TabId/(\d+)(.*)

~/Default.aspx?TabId=$1

I created a short video to show the process I followed to get this entry above the default DNN entry.  Of course, you can also just edit the SiteUrls.config file at the root of your site.

HTH,

Don