COREBlog is great for users with zope background. What about normal users, though?

While trying to get a blog for a community, asking users to go to ZMI (via /manage) is a no no, as I found out.

There are too many things there that did not fit community blogging.

What's needed for community blogging is only the Entry form. Nothing else, methinks

Simplify everything.

To that end, I tried hacking COREBlog. In a sense, I managed to get a Members only posting working.

Here's how to do it:

Apply this diff to COREBlog.py

Diff file

i changed the redirect to URL1, instead of manage_entryForm (which needs Manager role).

Also, changed the manage_addEntryForm permission to AddCOREBlogEntry, instead of ManageCOREBlogEntry.

This way we can put a link to add entry.

Then run a diff on dtml/manage_addEntryForm.dtml
diff file

The changes are only cosmetic. Nothing much

Restart zope

Go to ZMI, change the necessary permissions (Add COREBlog Entries) for aprropriate roles (Member, Manager)

Optional: get CookieCrumbler, for web login forms

We're done.

The next step is getting Member only comments.