I’ve created a new website and I’m really happy with how far you’ve come in the development, but there’s one feature I need before I can publish my new site — a blog. This is something important for me to have in place.
Do you have a timeline for when blog functionality will be available in Elements?
Do you have any suggestions for blog solutions that can be integrated with Elements in the meantime?
Maybe… @ben was looking into a third-party stop-gap solution. However, keep in mind that this won’t be an official solution and, as such, won’t ship as part of Elements. Hopefully, he’ll have more news to share on this in the coming weeks.
I first of all got it working in standalone mode as I was using ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Le Chat (Mistral) to develop the code and I didn’t want to confuse them (and me!) with using Elements. The primary aim I started with was to be able to easily migrate my current Alloy posts to Elements along with the ability to Add and Edit new posts etc.
Now that I have got this working well, I am well into the migration of this into Elements Component DevPacks. Whilst at first sight this should be comparatively easy, I am having to spend time generalising it and setting up Component Properties so that users other than myself can configure the Blog to their liking. I found too many places in the code where I had made default assumptions that worked well in my usage case but probably (make that definitely!) wouldn’t for others.
It will be at least another few weeks (probably) before it is ready for alpha testing (wouldn’t dare call it a beta ). However, as you might see from other of my posts, it is also dependant on some outstanding Elements feature/bug fixes.
At the moment, there are five components in the Dynamic component group:
Configure Blog
List Blog Posts
View Blog Post
Edit Blog Post
Blog Carousel
Just thought I would give a quick update to say that work is still actively progressing on this.