Since v4.0.0.507 new setting for the blog is added: Grouping of lightbox.

Enabled by default (to keep previous blog lightbox handling), this option can be found in the Online Administration section of the blog, Settings tab.

When this is enabled, all element that have lightbox and are from the same type * will be grouped into same box with navigation to loop among them.

When this is disabled, every lightbox element will pop-up in separate box and no navigation among the other similar elements will be possible.

*Different types of lightbox elements (image thumbnails, pure links, etc) are grouped separately from each other by the lightbox handler. In other words - you can put both thumbnail and a link into same box and navigate through them.

with Blog Views you can create separate layout options for Blog (to display blog entries with different layout than main blog layout)

to use Blog Views, add one or more View pages in treeview explorer:

after you add view page, specify options in view settings to make view different than main view:

name you chooose for blog view will be used to access this view in your blog :

for example, to access blog view on page index.php, add url and append name of view :   index.php?myview

(you can also use internal url picker in url dialog to select available views)

example default blog view

example alternative blog view

you can also link blog view from menu with external url option on page settings panel --> advanced

tip: you can also use views to show short version of article in main view and full article in another view:

on main blog page, add hyperlink : read more and use macro : ../v4/howto.php?entry_id=1344965509&title=using-blog-views-feature&compact  (replace &compact with name of your own view) as url

Following parameters can be used in all Blog/Podcast sidebar macros

(  BLOG_ARCHIVE(), BLOG_MOST_VISITED()  BLOG_TOP_RANK()  BLOG_FULLLIST()  )

% date%  % DATE[date parameters]% % free_field%  % excerpt% % title% % category% % image% % image[width,height]%  % item_url%
in podcast also %subtitle% %author% are supported

in BLOG_FULLLIST() there is also additional macro:  % content%

1) make sure your server is linux (as this will only work on linux server)

2) go to blog admin panel online--> settings --> check Permalink Month and Title

3)  when you check this option some text will show below (this is just example, in your case it will be something different):


< IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /galina/v4_m/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /galina/v4_m/index.php [L]
< /IfModule>


4) copy this content in empty file with filename .htaccess

5) upload the file on server in the folder where your blog page is stored