Introducing ... BlogShow (MT)

What is publishes looks fantastic, your own JS or a framework?

Not tried the actual plugin yet, but I'm sure a need for it will come along soon! The last slideshow plugin that I tried just didn't work at all (can't remember what it was now) and it broke my YUI editor at the same time, so that went!

Thanks! It's our own JS/Flash. Not sure if it works with the YUI Editor yet ...

I have it working in YUI Editor. I will post the info in a few.

Well I cannot get the plugin to work at all in MT 4.23. Granted, I am using a lot of plugins. It will not create a new set. This happens if I launch it from the MT RTE or YUI. So I am not entirely sure if this works, but here is the code. You will have to make your own blogshow.gif, I suggest a 14x14 image.

CSS:

.yui-skin-sam .yui-toolbar-container .yui-toolbar-blogshow span.yui-toolbar-icon,
.yui-skin-sam .yui-toolbar-container .yui-button-blogshow-selected span.yui-toolbar-icon {
    background-image: url( ../assets/blogshow.gif );
    background-position: 3px 3px;
    left: 5px;
}

YUI JS:

function afterYUIInit() {
    var YUIEditor = app.editor.myEditor;
    YUIEditor.toolbar.addButtonToGroup({ type: 'push', label: 'Insert BlogShow', value: 'blogshow' }, 'insertitem');
    YUIEditor.toolbar.on('blogshowClick', function() {
    var div = DOM.getElement( "editor-content-enclosure" );
    app.openDialog( "__mode=blogshow_open&blog_id=" + div.getAttribute( "mt:blog-id" ) + "&dialog_view=1" );
    }, this, true);
};

FWIW I cannot get the BlogShow MT 1.0 Trial to work in my vanilla MT4.25B2 install. It fails the same way. When I click "Create Set" I see a loading graphic for a split second, then nothing.

you need to make sure that the file storage path you have set is writable by php. it also needs to be the path from the web document root, and should start and end with a slash, like:

/blogshowdata/

if you are running php under apache, you will likely need to chmod the folder to 777.

does that help?

Was gonna say it is getting to late to try out tonight.

But I tried it. I chmod'd /blogshowdata/ 777 and that did not help at all. Same thing is happening.

Disabling YUIEditor had no effect.

Very cool.

The big question: Pricing. Specifically for me, personal use pricing. So, how much?

They said introductory pricing was $100 and normally $150. But considering I was never able to get it to work in MT 4.23 and they never got back to my emails about not getting it to work, I have gone onto other solutions.

If I could get it to work I may consider a purchase. I cannot get it to work in a clean MT 4.23 install or my production MT Pro site.

where is online demo ? or a trail?
i had submit information for a copy, but no any reply yet

I have been working with Michael Sablone tonight and he has been changing a bunch of code around and things are working wonderfully. I gotta say I am totally impressed.

The problem I was having was because I chose to put my mt-static outside of my MT_HOME dir. But he fixed that.

He changed around how it loads thumbnails so it has made things a bit better but it seems my server is throttling things and so some of the thumbs do not load at first (but will on subsequent reloads) so I am talking to my host about that. I am on a dedicated box so this should not be a problem.

He also has made some changes so that Richard Benson's YUIEditor will work. For some reason when the YUIEditor would write an IMG tag, it would not end it with /> even though the config is set to XHTML.

This means the JS and CSS code I posted above works just great if you are going to use the YUIEditor.

My thanks to Mike as he made a lot of changes tonight to make the plugin work on my server, and I believe make the plugin work much better for all for the next release of the BlogShow plugin.

Hi there,
I'm trying to run the trial version in my site but I'm probably doing something wrong. I'm not an expert but I've followed the instructions ... obviously not quite well :-S
I've copied all the files into my mt directories and the Blogshow icon appears when i create a new entry, i can create a set, upload the pics and embed it in the entry's extended field but I only see the BlogShow logo ... what have I missed?
can someone help?

thanks!

love blogshow, it htere are any updates please let me know, my site was created by ITDR

I cant create new Set. Check all cmod. all 777. changed folder to /images/