• Registered: 2009-10-09
  • Posts: 1

Topic: Direct blog posting from frontend?

A newbie question.

I have a website running on Mia 4.6.5 and one of my authors, while an excellent writer, has troubles with computer interfaces. What I am looking for is an easy way for her to add new items to the blog she is responsible for.

Ideally, a "Post new" item in user menu, which opens editor (bonus if it is just a basic html window, she does not need anything except plain text and all the buttons in "advanced" editors confuse her) window to add a new item into certain Section, certain Category and automatically set its status to "published".

If I understand correctly the first part (publishing to certain Section) can be done via "index.php?option=com_content&task=new&sectionid=20" item in user menu, but what about two others?

Thanks a lot in advance,
kanni

  • cauld
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Re: Direct blog posting from frontend?

You can tell the editor to use "simple" mode.  This will remove most of the buttons except for the basics.  Unfortunately, this will happen for everyone as it is not a per user setting at this point.

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  • Registered: 2009-08-10
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Re: Direct blog posting from frontend?

I was able to create the "add new article" link (index.php?option=com_content&task=new&sectionid=7) only within the database, using cpanel. Is there a way one is supposed to be able to do this through the admin panel?