How can I customize or enhance Cms-Kit to add Wordpress like custom types, taxonomies, custom fields etc. #2789

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  enisn created 2 years ago

  Support Team .NET Developer

  Hi @Radoslav

  As an answer to your questiıon, you can use ExtraProperties to attach custom data and fields to your entity

  You can see usages of it from here: https://docs.abp.io/en/abp/5.1/Object-Extensions#object-extensions

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  As a comment on your rest of explanation, WordPress is a different solution, and designing something like that it's not a good solution, you just can't call everything a post and define types with a column. If an entity's behavior changes according to a column, that means they're already different types. I think wordpress does this because it provides creating everything at runtime. But ABP Framework provides a maintainable, proper DDD solution. In wordpress you have to maintain your database but in CMS Kit you have to maintain your source code and it works with any database that is supported by Entity Framework and Mongo Driver. By the way, they're not substitutions of each other. Both of them provide different proposals. CMS Kit offers to you adding CMS features to your AspNetCore application and it's a library. But Wordpress offers you an entire standalone CMS application. They're different.

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  Radoslav created 2 years ago

  @enisn,

  Are you saying that once I add custom Properties in ExtraProperties I will automatically see these below other fiels in Blog Post edit screen?

  I cannot possibly use ExtraProperties as I don't want to depend on existing entity: BlogPost and define very complex .AddOrUpdateProperty<Type> property definitions in Domain.Shared.MyAppModuleExtensionConfigurator.cs and add valitions and other UI related concerns. I want to use normal Entity Classes and properties and do add relations between entities.

  I would probly want to compose some entities like: Book, RentalProprty, Event from a BlogPost entity at the top and add specific view component for Book, RentalProperty and Event below it.

  I would want to compose pages like these 2: /Account/Manage /SettingManagement

  Basically to replicate dynamic nature of how \Account\Manage.cshtml is assembled from 4-5 view components in a loop:

  @await Component.InvokeAsync(group.ComponentType, new
                          {
                              parameter = group.Parameter
                          })
  
  group.ComponentType here is AccountProfilePictureManagementGroupViewComponent, AccountProfilePersonalInfoManagementGroupViewComponent, etc.
  
  
  public class AccountProfileManagementPageContributor : IProfileManagementPageContributor
  {
      public async Task ConfigureAsync(ProfileManagementPageCreationContext context)
      {
          var l = context.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<IStringLocalizer<AccountResource>>();
  
          context.Groups.Add(
              new ProfileManagementPageGroup(
                  "Volo-Abp-Account-Picture",
                  l["ProfileTab:Picture"],
                  typeof(AccountProfilePictureManagementGroupViewComponent)
              )
          );
          context.Groups.Add(
              new ProfileManagementPageGroup(
                  "Volo-Abp-Account-PersonalInfo",
                  l["ProfileTab:PersonalInfo"],
                  typeof(AccountProfilePersonalInfoManagementGroupViewComponent)
              )
          );
  

  AccountProfilePictureManagementGroupViewComponent : AbpViewComponent
  AccountProfilePersonalInfoManagementGroupViewComponent : AbpViewComponent
  

  I would need to create a custom BlogPost page enabling some ViewComponent injections at run time depending on what is needed for a particular Book or other Entities.

  

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  enisn created 2 years ago

  Support Team .NET Developer

  CMS Kit doesn't implement that logic by default. You can customize BlogPost Create/Update pages as your wish.

  The blogging feature of CMS Kit is already open-source: https://github.com/abpframework/abp/blob/dev/modules/cms-kit/src/Volo.CmsKit.Admin.Web/Pages/CmsKit/BlogPosts/Create.cshtml

  If you place that .cshtml file same path in your application, it'll be replaced. You can check Completely overriding a razor page.

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  Radoslav created 2 years ago

  I would want to have my own custom page like this: /Pages/BookPosts/Create.cshtml /Pages/PropertyPosts/Create.cshtml

  There is no need to override BlogPosts/Create.cshtml because I need to have various entities that have some common rendering on top, so I can actually make a blog post as view component or view razor page and render it within each new entity

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