Here's another tip which I thought would be useful to a lot of you. While working with a customer last week, they asked me how to configure Blogs for a very specific use case. Specifically, they were looking to do the following:
- The Blogs module should be enabled
- Anyone can comment on blogs
- Anyone can rate blogs
- Only two people can create blogs / blog entries
I figured the easiest way to do this was to hide the "Start A Blog" and "Create Blog Entry" buttons. The magic happens in this file:
<WAS_PROFILE_ROOT>/installedApps\node\Blogs.ear\blogs.war\themes\homepage\Weblog.vm
Comment out the two <span> tags (one is for 'Start a Blog', the other is for 'New Entry')
Once you edit the .vm file, you'll need to restart the Blogs server for the changes to go into effect.
Enjoy!