Mishka Blog

📖 What is Mishka Blog?

mishka_blog is the blog extension of Mishka CMS. It adds posts, collections, tags, bloggers, editorial teams, threaded comments, ratings, bookmarks and follows to a site, with admin screens under /admin/dashboard/blog, a JSON:API, and ready-made page components that read the blog and draw it.

Every record belongs to a site, so each site in a Mishka CMS install has its own blog.

🧩 Part of Mishka CMS

Mishka Blog is an extension of Mishka CMS, an open source real-time CMS. It runs on mishka_cms_core, the engine, inside the mishka_cms application, and it is listed with the other CMS extensions.

✨ Features

• Posts that are a draft, scheduled, published or archived, with a scheduled publish time, an excerpt, a featured flag and image, reading time, SEO tags and Schema.org data. A post's text can place components from the site's library, and its code blocks are highlighted when the post is saved.
• Collections for nested categories, and nested tags. Posts, collections and tags can be written in several languages.
• Version history with restore for posts, collections, tags, bloggers and teams.
• Bloggers with a public profile (bio, expertise, social links and a slug). A post can have several authors. Bloggers can be grouped into teams, and each team has its own page.
• Threaded comments with the moderation states pending, approved, flagged and spam, pinning, and up and down votes.
• For readers: a 1 to 5 star rating for each post, bookmarks, follows for bloggers and teams, and a count of unique views.
• An analytics page with daily views, the most-read posts, where readers came from and whether they were signed in, over a period you choose.
• Seventeen page components (eleven blocks that run their own queries and six smaller pieces they draw with) and nine sample pages: the blog index, a post, a category, a tag, an author, a team, and the lists of categories, tags and people.
• The sample pages hang on the site's site-main layout and draw nothing around themselves. The blog hands the layout its bar (Posts, Categories, Tags and People) and, for a post, a category, a tag, a blogger or a team, the languages that record is written in, each at its own address, which the header's language menu lists.
• SEO for each record: its own head, BlogPosting and breadcrumb JSON-LD, sitemap.xml entries for posts, categories, bloggers and teams, and share cards.
• A notification to the blog's admins when a post is published, and dashboard widgets for recent posts, top posts, drafts and scheduled posts, comments to moderate, and bloggers.
• A JSON:API for admins at /api/json/v1/master/admin/mishka-blog/… and /api/json/v1/tenant/admin/mishka-blog/…, and one for readers at /api/json/v1/user/mishka-blog/… (published posts, comments, ratings, bookmarks, follows and votes), described in the CMS's OpenAPI spec.
• Permissions admin:dashboard:blog:post and admin:dashboard:blog:comment, with admin:api: twins for the API, so a moderator can hold the comments alone.
• Events for plugins, such as blog:blog_post:after_publish and blog:comment:after_create.

🚀 Getting started

Mishka Blog is installed with Mishka CMS. Add it from Hex:

{:mishka_blog, "~> 0.0.1"}

Mishka CMS loads it from __extensions/mishka_blog instead when that folder exists.

Mishka CMS registers it in three places: MishkaBlog in ash_domains and MishkaBlogWeb in the core's extensions list, both in config/config.exs, and MishkaBlog in the domains of the JSON:API router.

Then install the blog onto a site. Tick Blog in the install wizard, or open the Blog dashboard of a site that does not have it yet and press Set up. Either way the site gets the seventeen components, the nine sample pages and a sidebar snippet. Running it again adds only what is missing and leaves anything you edited.

For sample bloggers, posts and comments in development, run mix run priv/repo/dev_seeds.exs in mishka_cms.

📚 Documentation

• Mishka Blog documentation, which is still being written
• Features, the post editor, SEO, the REST API and the admin preview
• Mishka CMS documentation
• Mishka Installer documentation, for plugins and events
• The Mishka blog

💬 Community and support

• Report a bug or ask a question in GitHub issues.
• Read about new releases on the Mishka blog.
• For a custom blog feature, a migration from another CMS or priority support, hire the Mishka team.

💖 Support the project

Mishka CMS and its extensions are free and open source. You can support their development through GitHub Sponsors or Buy Me a Coffee.

📜 License

Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.