Bloggerrolle

This Kirby plugin will ping bloggerrolle.de and/or uberblogr.de whenever you publish a page.

Deprecated

This plugin is no longer being maintained because the Bloggerrolle service has been discontinued. Use the UberBlogr plugin instead.

Installation

Use one of these methods to install the plugin:

  • composer (recommended): composer require mauricerenck/bloggerrolle
  • zip file: unzip main.zip as folder site/plugins/bloggerrolle

Usage

After installing the plugin, it will ping bloggerrolle.de and/or uberblogr.de whenever you publish a page.

If you are not a member of the uberblogr webring, you first have to register your site at bloggerrolle.de. If you are a member of the uberblogr webring, you don't have to register your site at bloggerrolle.de again. Read more about this here

In both cases you at least have to set the URL your registered with in your config.php file:

<?php

return [
    "mauricerenck.bloggerrolle" => [
        'url' => 'https://YOUR-BLOG-URL',
    ],
];

Use the full URL. So if you registered with https://example.com/en/blog you also need to use that URL in your config.php file.

Uberblogger members

In case your blog is a member of uberblogr you don't need to register at bloggerrolle.de again. This plugin will automatically ping both sites. In this case go to your config and set:

<?php
"mauricerenck.bloggerrolle" => [
    'url' => 'https://YOUR-BLOG-URL',
    'uberblogr' => true,
],

Restricting templates

You may not want to ping the pages with every page you publish. For example a new legal page should not result in a ping, but a new blog post should.

You have two options:

  • Allow specific templates to ping
  • Block specific templates from pinging

Setting templates.allowed will allow only the templates listed in the array to ping, no other template will send a ping.

<?php
'mauricerenck.bloggerrolle.templates.allowed' => ['post', 'note'],

Setting templates.blocked will allow all templates except the ones listed in the array to ping.

<?php
'mauricerenck.bloggerrolle.templates.blocked' => ['legal'],

Leave both options away if you don't want any restrictions.

Options

Please make sure to prefix all options with mauricerenck.bloggerrolle or use the array notation.

Option Default Description
url '' The URL of your blog
uberblogr false set to true if you are a uberblogr member
templates.allowed [] A list of template/blueprint names which should send a ping
templates.blocked [] A list of template/blueprint names which should not send a ping
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