What is Mango Blog?
Mango Blog is an extensible blog engine released under the Apache license, built with ColdFusion. It provides the core engine to administer and publish entries and the necessary architecture to extend its basic functionality by adding plugins. Mango Blog can be easily customized by the use of exchangeable and completely customizable skins.
Features
News
Github Gists Plugin
Posted on August 16, 2010, under Plugins and Tags.
Andrea Campolonghi has created a plugin to insert Github "Gists" into your blog posts. You can read more and download from Andrea's blog.
ViewCount plugin updated
Posted on August 11, 2010, under Plugins and Tags.
Paul Klinkenberg has updated his View Count plugin. You can read about the changes and download the update from his blog.
SwfObject Plugin
Posted on August 03, 2010, under Plugins and Tags.
This is not a new plugin, but somehow I missed the announcement. Andrea Campolonghi created a plugin that adds SWFObject script to all pages in case you need to embed a Flash movie. You can read more and download from Andrea's blog.
How to Create a Post Using Mango's API
Justin Scott wrote a good tutorial explaining how to programmatically create posts (ie: posts coming from a feed or another CMS) using the API. You can read more at Justin's blog.
Simple Rating Plugin
Posted on July 29, 2010, under Plugins and Tags.
I've created a plugin that adds "star ratings" to the bottom of your posts. To function correctly, your theme must dispatch the event "beforePostContentEnd". Most of the recent themes have the event, but it is possible that your theme doesn't have it. If so, then this must be at the end of your full post page:
<mango:Event name="beforePostContentEnd" template="post" mode="full" />
This in the index, after each post:
<mango:Event name="beforePostContentEnd" template="index" mode="excerpt" />
and this after each post in the archives:
<mango:Event name="beforePostContentEnd" template="archives" mode="excerpt" />
You can download it from: http://mangoblog-extensions.googlecode.com/files/simplerating.zip
