adefwebserver / blazor-blogs

Simple blogging application written in Microsoft Server Side Blazor

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blazor-blogs's Issues

Option of Tags to Blog Posts

Re-Work Blog Administration

• Get rid of Blog Administration page and just display an Edit Button if logged-in user is the author
• Prevent anyone from using Blog control if they are not the author of that blog

Implement Privacy Statement and Terms Of Use

• Create templates see: https://github.com/ADefWebserver/ADefHelpDesk/tree/master/AdefHelpDesk/SystemFiles

• Allow the dynamic values to be updated. See: https://github.com/ADefWebserver/ADefHelpDesk/blob/master/ADefHelpDeskApp/Controllers/WebApi/ApplicationSettingsController.cs

• Implement in the footer of the application

Allow project to be Installable/Updatable

• Break out into a boot loader and project assembly
• Create Install Wizard (remove code that creates Administrator in index page)
• Allow Administrator to upload an update package

See:
http://blazorhelpwebsite.com/Blog/tabid/61/EntryId/4352/A-Blazor-Application-Updater.aspx

Test Email Button: Object Reference Not found

If you get an error when clicking the Test Email button, and your site is being hosted in Azure, ensure that web sockets is turned on:

Add Display Name and Newsletter Subscriber to Membership

See:
https://www.yogihosting.com/aspnet-core-identity-custom-user-properties/

Raw HTML mode for the Rich Text Editor

Multiple bloggers

• Anyone in admin role can make a blog post
• Anyone who has one blog post is a blogger. 

Newsletters

• Allow users to subscribe and unsubscribe in the Profile Page (add a dropdown to the Manage Page)

Enable Email Verification and Password Resets

• See:
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authentication/accconfirm?view=aspnetcore-3.1&tabs=visual-studio
• Alter to use Email settings stored in the Settings Table
• Disable requiring verified emails in Startup.cs file if the SMTP is not set-up
• Allow Verified Registration to be turned off in Administration (ensure default is to have it turned on)

Don’t allow root directory to be deleted

In File Manager, you can accidentally delete the root directory

Show Banner HTML on home page

HTML in the header does not show on the home page of the blog, only when you view a Blog page.

Where does BlazorBlogsLibrary.Views.dll come from?

Hello,

Apologies if this is a silly noob question, but where does the file BlazorBlogsLibrary.Views.dll come from?
It does not seem to be a build output and yet is referenced in BlazorBlogsLibrary.csproj to copy the file after the build of that project.

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Daniel

Record IP address of current user in Logs

• Record IP address of current user in Logs (see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59538318/how-to-use-the-httpcontext-object-in-server-side-blazor-to-retrieve-information/59538319#59538319)
• Display in log display

Use a file uploader to allow Administrators to upload to a blog images directory to insert into the rich Text Editor

• Clicking the image icon on the Rich Text Editor toolbar opens a pop-up that displays thumbnails of images in the blog images directory

• You to select an image that was uploaded to that directory to insert into the Rich Text Editor

• The popup has a button to allow you to upload additional images

Dynamically set SEO properties

See:

• dotnet/aspnetcore#10450
• https://www.iambacon.co.uk/blog/setting-the-document-title-in-your-blazor-app

Category Drop down not working on Blog Edit page

When editing a Blog post, the Category drop down is not working

Format First page

• Click on Blog title to show as a Popup
• Show Summary under title
• Make popup a large Modal on click of Blog post
• Make content in Modal scrollable

Link for site map (for SEO)

In settings, show the link to a sitemap that can be used for Google SEO

Display downloads to non-logged in users

Display downloads to non-logged in users, but, do not make the links clickable if the site requires authentication.

Dynamic Header and Logo

Allow the Logo and the application head to be set using the Rich Text Editor

• Create place holders in page
• Create Settings in database
• Display from database
• Allow Settings to be set

Deploy to Azure Button

• Latest Deploy To Azure Docs 2-7-2020

How would this Blazor Blog Handle SEO meta tags?

I was digging through and cannot find any solution.

I mean specifically on client-side Blazor not server-side.

Allow Administrator to clear the logs

Allow Administrator to clear the logs by clicking a button (with confirm)

Windows Live Writer throws error if display name of user is not set

When connecting using Windows Live Writer, an error is thrown if display name of user is not set.

Fix Deploy To Azure Button

Deploy to Azure button not working since the upgrade to .NET 5

https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.Template/uri/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FADefWebserver%2FBlazor-Blogs%2Fmain%2Fazuredeploy.json

{
    "status": "Failed",
    "error": {
        "code": "ResourceDeploymentFailure",
        "message": "The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'."
    }
}

Command: "C:\home\site\deployments\tools\deploy.cmd"
Handling ASP.NET Core Web Application deployment with MSBuild16.7.0.
'"\MSBuild.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
Failed exitCode=1, command="\MSBuild.exe" /restore "C:\home\site\repository\BlazorBlogs\BlazorBlogs.csproj" /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:configuration=Release /p:publishurl="C:\local\Temp\8d893b2a887544d"
An error has occurred during web site deployment.
operable program or batch file.
'"\MSBuild.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,\r\noperable program or batch file.\r\nC:\Program Files (x86)\SiteExtensions\Kudu\90.21106.4900\bin\Scripts\starter.cmd "C:\home\site\deployments\tools\deploy.cmd"

Search Box

Allow an optional search box that uses Google site search (like: "Blazor controls site:BlazorHelpWebsite.com")

Make User Admin searchable and pageable

Allow Google Tracking ID to be set

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080?hl=en

Find your Tracking ID and global site tag
Sign in to your Analytics account.
Click Admin.
Select an account from the menu in the ACCOUNT column.
Select a property from the menu in the PROPERTY column.
Under PROPERTY, click Tracking Info > Tracking Code.

Your Tracking ID is displayed at the top of the page.

Your global site tag is displayed farther down the page in a text box under Website Tracking > Global Site Tag (gtag.js)

Admin Account not being created properly on first install

On a fresh install the Admin account is created but it is not properly being set to Active

Uploads returning FileTitle as null

In your Blazor-Blogs website I needed to do the following changes to get Uploads to work

1. Create wwwroot/files
2. add the following code change to upload controller
   if (FileTitle == null )
   {
   FileTitle = "[Unknown]";
   }

File uploads not working

File uploads is not working because the wwwroot/files directory does not exist.

Downloads page does not handle large file uploads

Upgrade to .Net 5

Implement sharable social media previews

See: Open Graph: a guide to sharable social media previews

Allow Theming

Create a theming framework to allow Blog Administrators to create and upload themes for the look and feel of their Blog site.
See if the theming for Oqtane will work: https://github.com/oqtane/oqtane.theme.cerulean

Blog post comments

• All comments are moderated
• Email admin on all comments
• Allow admin to delete comments
• Users can delete their own comments
• Email user on any reply to their comment
• Show admin replies nested under comment)

Allow Google Tracking to be set

Allow Google tracking ID to be set (and implemented) in Administration page

View Blog not being logged

On some sites, when a blog page is being viewed, it is not being logged.

Disqus Comments Not Displaying

In the latest release the Disqus comments are not displaying at the bottom of the page.
The Blog ID and Title may not be passed to the Disqus JavaScript.

Categories

Add a Category Tree on the first page 

Implement Azure B2C

https://blazorhelpwebsite.com/ViewBlogPost/55

• Store the Azure B2C objectIdentifier in [AspNetUsers].[Id]

Allow Rich text in Blog Summary

Enable Email confirmation

See:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authentication/accconfirm?view=aspnetcore-3.1&tabs=visual-studio

Allow SendGrid to be used

SendGrid requires an API key.
You can no longer just use username and password

Implement Allow Registration

Turn off the Registration link if Administrator has set Allow Registration to False.
Ensure that install has this turned on.

Integrating Windows Live Writer

See https://github.com/shawnwildermuth/metaweblog (NuGet)

Documentation

• Document using Blog posts
• Update screen shots on GitHub page
• Create a .pdf download

RSS Feeds

Use:
https://mitchelsellers.com/blog/article/creating-an-rss-feed-in-asp-net-core-3-0

File Download Page

• Allow administrator to upload .zip files

• Allow Administrator to create database entries in a downloads table that describe a file and retrieves it when clicked

• Record the number of times a file has been retrieved