Rules for DNN Blog Entries

Is there any way to add a rule for DNN Blog Module Entries to be displayed with a page name instead of entryID=4, for example? I checked the rules sticky page and didn't see anything. Thanks very much in advance

Hi Briandus,

Can you show me what the Url looks like before, and what you would like for it to look like after the replacement is done?

I have a similar (same?) need to what Briandus has outlined above. For example, the following URLs link to the same blog entry on my DNN website.

• http://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Blogs/Beijing_Beat/tabid/81/EntryID/241/Default.aspx 
• http://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Default.aspx?tabid=81&EntryID=241 (Permalink)

The title of this blog entry is 'Wrecking Ball For Beijing Club' (this title is stored in a field in the DNN SQL 2005 database). What I would like is for the URL to include the blog entry's title so that it looks something like this:

• http://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Blogs/Beijing_Beat/Wrecking-Ball-For-Beijing-Club.aspx 
•        or
• http://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Blogs/Beijing_Beat/Wrecking-Ball-For-Beijing-Club/Default.aspx 

By introducing the blog title into the URL (as is the best practice of other leading blog platforms) it greatly improves the URL in the eyes of the serach engines - as the URL contains unique, meaningful textual information that is highly relevant / indicative of the rest of the content on the page.

Can this be done?

Eoghano

Jjust stumbled across PageBlaster and rewritting the BLOG url is exactly what I was looking for. Has anyone made any progress on this with PageBlaster.

Ok, sorry it took me so long to get to this, but I think I have an answer.  I actually have two.

For a simple replacement rule you could use this:

SearchFor:  <a(.*?Blog.*?href=.*?)Default.aspx">(.*?)</a>

ReplaceWith: <a$1$2.aspx">$2</a>

If you want to get rid of the spaces between the words in the url and replace them with dashes you can do it with two rules like this:

SearchFor:  <a(.*?Blog.*?href=.*?)Default.aspx">((\w+)\W(\w+)?\W?(\w+)?\W?(\w+)?\W?(\w+)?\W?(\w+)?\W?(\w+)?\W?(.*?))</a>

ReplaceWith: <a$1$3-$4-$5-$6-$7-$8-$9.aspx">$2</a>

This second option grabs up to 7 words from the subject title and replaces default.aspx as the page name. With this option you may have extra dashes at the end of your page names if you have a subject with less that 7 words, so you can also add another rule to execute after which will remove the extra dashes. It will look like this:

SearchFor:  -+a?-?t?d?\.aspx
ReplaceWith:  .aspx

John,

Thanks for the reply. I have purcahsed and installed PB and it is working great so far. I have created some Portal rules (basic URL rewrite type stuff) and am now working with some page rules on my blogs. I implemented the above samples and it is working as advertised. The one issue I ran into with the last replace (removing the extra dashes) is that it leaves an extra space before the .aspx (here is a sample: http://www.rantinstitute.com/personal-rants/tabid/57/EntryID/19/Alberto-Gonzalez-finally-resigns%20.aspx). I'm new to regex and am pretty much getting my rear-end kicked trying to fix the space. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, do you have any ideas on how to grap the blog title on the blog main page and get it into the url. He is an example:

http://www.rantinstitute.com/personal-rants/tabid/57/BlogID/4/Default.aspx

I would like to change "/BlogID/4/Default.aspx" to "the-daily-rant.aspx"  (Which is the Blog title) but I don't know how to pull it in and am struggling with regex code at this point. If possible I would like it to pull it in dynamically to avoid hard coding it anywhere (like in the siteurls.config).

Thanks,

John Studdard
www.rantinstitute.com

What I would like to do is put the title of the Blog, Wiki or Forum entry into the url of the page it is viewed on.
For example, I currently have a Blog entry at the url http://www.mysite.com/tabid/176/EntryID/4/Community/Blogs.aspx (note this is already using a nifty PageBlaster rewrite rule ). Since the Blog modules all appear on the same DNN tab, the EntryIDs just change what the modules on the tab display. The Blog is titled "Blog Title" and the Blog Entry is titled "Entry Title".

How can I get the url be something more like http://www.mysite.com/tabid/176/EntryID/4/BlogTitle/EntryTitle.aspx ? That would be really sweet!

Also, I wonder about a similar thing for the DNN Wiki module -- putting the Wiki entry title into the page url?.

And, while we're on the topic of the Blogs and the Wikis, is it possible to also rewrite the "title" tag in the head of the page to have the "Blog Title: Entry Title" or the "Wiki entry title" in it?

I'm using the free page-blaster. If this is easier in the paid version, I'd be happy to use this as my excuse to the boss for upgrading .

Thanks,
Ari

All right, Here's teh answer. (John replied to this by email and I'll post it here)

For the Blog - the Blog entry title is already in the page title, just not the Blog title. With Forums (I'm using ActiveForums), the thread title is already in page title.

For Wiki entries, here's a page rule to get the Wiki Entry Title into the Page Title.

I couldn't spend any more time trying to figure out how to get html code to appear here, so I just attached it as an image file.