PluginBlog

A simple MVC5 blog for existing sites.

The package adds a BlogAdmin area to an existing web project, providing CRUD methods for posts/categories/tags. An example of a BlogController is also added to show/list posts.

For a demo visit http://pluginblog.apphb.com/.

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Download instructions:

• Download the Nuget package using PM> Install-Package PluginBlog
• Create a database according to the PluginBlog connection string in the web.config and use the script.sql file in the App_Data folder to create the tables .
• If the hosting site already uses authentication then remove from the web.config the one added by the plugin. For more details check the Setup Guide below.
• Login to the admin area: yoursite/blogadmin/auth/login (default credentials in the config) and start adding new posts.

Setup

PluginBlog adds a PluginBootstrapper class in the hosting App_Start folder, in here you can setup your DI, change the routing and eventually change the default WYSIWYG, below the default one:

public class PluginBlogBootstrapper
{
	public static void Start()
	{
		//Register a custom repository by implementing IBlogRepository 
		PluginBlogConfig.RegisterRepository = () => new BlogRepository(new BlogContext());

		//Register the authorization used to access the BlogAdminArea
		PluginBlogConfig.RegisterAuthorization = () =>
		{
			var authProvider = new SampleAuthProvider();
			return authProvider;
		};
	}

	//After App_Start is executed register the bundles
	public static void PostStart()
	{
		BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jquery").Include("~/Scripts/jquery-{version}.js"));
		BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/bootstrap", "http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/js/bootstrap.js").Include("~/Scripts/bootstrap.js", "~/Scripts/respond.js"));
		BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/tinymce", "http://tinymce.cachefly.net/4.0/tinymce.min.js").Include("~/Scripts/tinymce/tinymce*"));
		BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/pluginblog").Include("~/Scripts/pluginblog.js"));
		BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/bootstrap","http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap.css").Include("~/Content/bootstrap.css"));
		BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/pluginblog").Include("~/Content/pluginblog.css"));
		BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true;
	}
}

Start

The two functions register respectively the repository and the authorization for the blog. You can replace (delete) them with your own DI framework, both IAuthProvider and IBlogRepository are passed via constructor to the blog controllers. To replace the default authentication, create a new implementation of IAuthProvider and replace SampleAuthProvider.

PostStart

After the start, client dependencies are registered. By default the TinyMce wysiwyg is used along with Bootstrap for the layout. The login page is at BlogAdmin/Auth/Login.