XBlog Renderings

It has been a while since I have done an XBlog post. If you are not familiar with the tool, XBlog is a blogging module for Sitecore. It was developed with the mindset that no solution is perfect. It gives you a lot of tools as a baseline to build from.

Let's take a look at the out of box renderings that are available.

Primary Renderings

Blog Listing – This is the listing of your blog. It will present a current date ascending list of blog posts. Pagination is built in. This will display title, date posted, summary, and author information.

Blog Post – This is the actual post. The view that gets displayed when you click through from the blog listing.

Author View – This shows a specific author. It will display their biography along with a paginated list of the blog posts for this author.

Helper / Callout Renderings

Author List – This will display a list of authors. This can be alpha sorted or sorted by total blog posts.

Category List – This displays your categories along with a count of posts in each category. Selecting a category will filter the blog listing.

OG Meta Data – This will output Open Graph protocol meta data. This will be invisible to the end user.

Recent Blog – This will display a configurable list of recent blog posts.

Related Blog – This will display a list of posts that are similar to the current post. It does a comparison of categories, tags, and authors with a weighted value for each.

Tag Cloud – This is a display of your tags. The tag size will vary based on how many posts are using that tag.

Tag List – This is a listing that will filter the blog by a specific tag.

Text Search – This is a search box that will filter the blog listing based on entered text.