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Shows the following from the 3 newest posts:

• image (optional)
• category (limited to one, the first in the list selected by the author)
• Title
• Teaser text
• Read more link

If there isn’t an image for a post, the title should get larger. See the LitSmart example below.

Image, title, and Read more link should all link to the post. Blog post title should underline on rollover.

Clicking on a category tag would take you to the view of all the posts in that category.

“More Blog Posts” link at bottom center of section links to the list of all posts matching the criteria set up in the assembly (list below). Or it can just link to the blog main page, if that’s a big ask.

Admin Options

• Optional title field for the assembly
• Ability to select from / filter by blog categories (can select more than one)
• Ability to select from / filter by authors (can select more than one)
• Ability to select from / filter by blog (if the site has more than one, like Cross and OE)

More examples of this assembly

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@megan @matt if we need to be able to filter by author we'll need to hash out what the base functionality is for authors (whether we use Users or an Author content type)

We decided to start with the built-in users as authors @derek

So as far as the "read more" link goes, here is what I can link to with a nice alias:

• a single blog
• a single taxonomy term
• a single blog + single taxonomy term

I don't have url aliases for anything else (including "all blog posts"). I can link to a view, but the urls are going to be pretty ugly, e.g. filtering on three blogs (ids 1, 2, 3), any author, and a one taxonomy terms (tid 84) would look like /blog_feed/1+2+3/all/84.

We're generating the existing aliases whenever a new term or blog is created. Due to combinatorial explosion we can't really generate aliases for all these possibilities. But what we might be able to do is generate an alias on-demand when a section is saved. It's just a question of whether it's worth the effort. @matt @megan

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f81119c3 adds the assembly and supporting view. It also restricts categories to a single item in blog teasers. Everything else is theming, and I'm not sure if we want to provide templates in the module or do it in sitetheme, so I'm turning this over to @kerri.

assigned to @kerri and unassigned @derek

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Templates go in sitetheme.

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Remaining tasks

• Template for teasers to move blog post title under the image/category
• Add a conditional class to the title based on whether an image is present
• When a single blog, single category, or single blog+category is chosen as the filter, use the SEO-friendly url aliases for the More Blog Posts list

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