Perch Blog

Add a simple blog to the Swift Migrations Site using the Perch blog app. This tutorial follows on from Getting Started.

• 3:41

  Installing the Blog

  We're now going to add a simple blog to the Swift Migrations Site using the Perch blog app.

• 5:34

  Create a Blog Listing page

  Create a page to list recent blog posts.

• 10:47

  Create a Blog Detail page

  This time we are creating the blog detail page to display a single blog post.

• 12:08

  Create a Blog Archive page

  The final page of our blog is an archive page, which serves to display posts by category or by tag.

• 9:18

  Editing Blog Templates

  Edit the default templates that come with Perch to add in the markup that we want to use to show our posts.

• 5:37

  Blocks

  Give editors the ability to choose between different things to put into their content using Blocks.

• 3:38

  Showing blog posts on the homepage

  This time we are creating the blog detail page to display a single blog post.

• 8:27

  Create a Blog RSS feed

  The blog templates include a template which outputs the post in a format as needed for an RSS feed.

• 6:05

  Rewriting URLs with htaccess

  Easily rewrite URLs in any way you'd like.