I have written a simple plugin to allow you to show a list of blogs in a skin. It includes filtering capability and allows you to change the display of the list using a template.

Save as NP_BlogList.php, then upload and install plug-in.

You then have four options:

• Order By field: Type the field(s) you want to order the list by. Use ASC or DESC after the field to choose direction of sort.
• Header: This allows you to choose the default header template that precedes the list
• List: This allows you to choose the default template for the items in the list
• Footer: This allows you to choose the default footer template that follows the list

Templates follow standard Nucleus conventions. Variables available are all fieldnames in the Nucleus_blog table (e.g bshortname) as well as ‘friendly’ variables blogid, blogname and bloglink.

To insert the bloglist into a skin use <%BlogList%>

The parameters are as follows:

• Filter (optional) : Allows you to add a where clause to filter info. e.g <%BlogList(bpublic = 1)%>
• Header, List, Footer (all optional): allows you to override the template for one instance of a list. e.g <%BlogList(bpublic = 1,HeaderTemplate,ListTemplate,FooterTemplate)%>

NP_BlogList doesn’t work with Nucleus CMS version 3.31 - 2007-10-30 kg

Nucleus CMS 3.31 has an own skinvar bloglist which can be used instead of this plugin.