Sidebar Components

Categories

This component allows users to navigate to the various categories of the blog, in order to view the posts within those categories. It's a primary means of blog navigation.

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Tag Cloud

This component displays aggregated tags for your blog, visually weighted based on how often they occur on your blog entries. Users can click tags to see blog entries which are marked with that tag. It gives users a way of navigating more detailed topics of your blog, and also gives a visual representation of the blog's content.

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Archive

This component displays links to all posts available in the blog, grouped by month and year. It allows users to navigate your blog by time, and also provides crawlable links to all entries for search engines.

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The Archive supports two rendering parameters which are not currently displayed using a Parameters Template (i.e. you must enter them as key/value pairs in the Additional Parameters field of the rendering).

ExpandMonthsOnLoad (true/false) - Controls whether individual months in each year should be visible/expanded when the page loads. Defaults to true.

ExpandPostsOnLoad (true/false) - Controls whether individual posts in each month should be visible/expanded when the page loads. Defaults to false.

Interesting Entries

This component displays "popular" posts, either by number of comments (default) or by page views. This option is set on the rendering parameters of the sublayout. Pulling by page view requires either OMS (pre-6.5) or DMS. You can also implement your own custom algorithm by populating the Algorithm property of the sublayout (see code for details). The rendering parameters of this component also allow you to specify an alternate [Dictionary] key that should be used for the component title.

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Recent Comments

This component displays the most recent comments made on entries in your blog. The number of comments displayed is set on the blog home item.

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Blog Feeds

This component will display links to any RSS Feed items found as children of the blog home item. Enable RSS also needs to be checked on the blog home item.

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Social Sidebar Components

Please reference the Social Components guide.