Topic on Extension talk:SimpleBlogPage

Hi, I installed this extension under MW 1_35 and it does work. I found the BlogPage extensions indeed to scary and therefore your simple version is very welcome. Before, I used Wikilog which is no longer maintained.

I have a small documentation suggestion:

• Maybe you show say somewhere that User_blog:XXX pages need to be created if a user wants to reuse the link.

And I have a feature request that you may consider looking at:

• I'd like to be able transclude both Special:ArticlesHome and User_blog:XXX . Individual blog pages can be transcluded, but this is not very practical for home page maintenance.
• If possible, transclusion with a limit of N articles shown and another limit of N lines shown. E.g. like:

{{Special:ArticlesHome|limit=5|lines=10}}

• Display the text of the user page on top of User_blog:XXX

Here is my site: https://w.arbores.tech/

I accomplished this by editing the extension's code.

SimpleBlogPage/includes/specials/SpecialArticlesHome.php needs one small change to allow it to be transcluded:

find this line

class ArticlesHome extends SpecialPage {

and change it to

class ArticlesHome extends IncludableSpecialPage {

I also made some other changes. At some point maybe I will try to figure out how to submit a patch on github.