<Blog>

The <Blog> option is used to configure the blog portion of your website.

Example

<Blog>
  <SortOrder>               PubDate         </SortOrder>                          
  <ShortDates>              false           </ShortDates>            
  <AbsoluteURLs>            false           </AbsoluteURLs>
  <PrependCategoryToTitle>  false           </PrependCategoryToTitle>
  <EnableFeed>              true            </EnableFeed>            
  <FeedsIncludeContent>     true            </FeedsIncludeContent>   
  <FeedSize>                6               </FeedSize>              
  <FeedSyndicationHours>    1               </FeedSyndicationHours>  
  <IndexSize>               6               </IndexSize>        
  <AbstractLength>          20              </AbstractLength>     
  <MinTagSize>              5               </MinTagSize>            
  <MaxRelatedPages>         20              </MaxRelatedPages>       
  <FeaturedImages>          M1, M2, M3, O4  </FeaturedImages>
  
  <Author>                  
    <Name>                  Bob Bobson                                       </Name>            
    <Avatar>                https://domain.com/media/bob.png                 </Avatar>            
    <Description>           Lives in Bobstown with his wife, Bobbette Bobson </Description>            
    <ContactInfo>           https://thebobsons.com                           </ContactInfo>            
  </Author>

  <Author>                  
    <Name>                  Bobbette Bobson                                  </Name>            
    <Avatar>                https://domain.com/media/bobbette.png            </Avatar>            
    <Description>           Lives in Bobstown with her husband, Bob Bobson   </Description>            
    <ContactInfo>           https://thebobsons.com                           </ContactInfo>            
  </Author>
</Blog>

Options

<SortOrder>
[ PubDate ]
Pages can be sorted by reverse publication date ( PubDate ), reverse modification date ( ModDate ) or by record id ( Id ).
<ShortDates>
[ false ]
By default, dates are in the form of January 12, 2001. Enabling this option will display dates in the form of Jan 12, 2001.
<AbsoluteURLs>
[ false ]
When URLs are internal generated, they are by default relative to the subfolder where your website resides. Enabling this option forces all internally generated links to include the <Domain> in the URL. This may be useful if your website and/or pages are embedded within external environments such as an RSS feed, etc.
<PrependCategoryToTitle>
[ false ]
You can define a single category for every page. Enabling this option will prepend the category to the filename.
<EnableFeed>
[ true ]
RSS feeds are enabled by default.
<FeedsIncludeContent>
[ true ]
Page content is include in the feed by default.
<FeedSize>
[ 6 ]
Use this option to set the maximum number of pages to include in the feed.
<FeedSyndicationHours>
[ 1 ]
Use this option to set how often (in hours) feed readers should refresh.
<IndexSize>
[ 6 ]
Use this option to set the maximum numbwer of pages included on each blog index page.
<AbstractLength>
[ 20 ]
If an abstract is not provided with the page, set the maximum number of words to include from the page content before showing the "Continue Reading ..." link. These abstracts are also used in the feed. All HTML will be stripped from the abstract.
<MinTagSize>
[ 5 ]
Slimlines treats words beginning with a # sign as a hash tag. Dashes in hash tags are converted to spaces when displayed. A separate index page is created for every hashtag. Hash tags are automatically hotlinked to their index pages. Use this option to set the minimum size allowed for hash tags. This value is overridden by the page-specific setting.
<MaxRelatedPages>
[ 4 ]
Use this option to indicate the maxumum number of related pages to include at the bottom of a page. Setting the value to 0 disables related pages. A page is considered related if it references the original page. If there are more related pages than the value set here, a random selection will be shown.
<FeaturedImages>
[ 0 ]
A comma-delimited list of multimedia image ids. Featured images are chosen at random from this list to use as the page's media image when undefined in the page. The media image is also shown alongside each page on the index page, and along the top of each page when not hidden. Having a list of feature images will ensure that every page has an assigned media image.
<Author>
This tag indicates the beginning of a new author card. Author cards appear at the bottom of each page.
<Name>
[ ]
The author's name. It should match one of the page authors.
<Avatar>
[ ]
The author's avatar.
<Decription>
[ ]
The author's description.
<ContactInfo>
[ ]
The author's contact info.
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