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Hi Wix Code Team.

I was wondering if I could pick your ear for advice.
I have been playing around with the Wix Code- really love it…

Would there be a way for us to generating blog articles from a database?
This would be absolutely brilliant…

For context:
Currently we have a system where users can enter opportunities. These automatically generate a Google document which we then share on the old Wix blog.

Using WixCode I noticed we can automatically generate pages using user input data & databases (fantastic!)… However with around 1000+ projects this coming year, it would mean a ton of pages and the loss of the social media/user tools of the blog… (not ideal!)

We are going to re-launch in mid-september for the new academic year.

The best scenario:
Now that Wix has it’s own database system is there a way to generate blog articles in a similar way to dynamic pages? If it can be done in an automated way even better…
Bit of a moonshot I know!
But thank you for your consideration…

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Hi Callum,
thanks for the feedback!

Just a bit of context I’m missing - when you talk about losing the social media / user tools,
can you be a bit more specific?

also - are you talking about the old blog, or the new one?

thanks!

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New blog.
I’ve noticed this has a neat user profile which you can connect to your facebook account!

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OK,
so one by one:

  1. it is completely OK to have 1000+ records in a collection, and generate 1000+ dynamic pages from them. you should be fine.

  2. currently the new blog does not expose an API so you can’t program it through code. that is on our roadmap.

  3. it should be relatively easy to create the facebook integration you mentioned via some custom code in your wixcode site.
    if you can specify a bit more about your requirements, I can guide you through it.

good luck!

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Ziv,

On topic of New Wix Blog…how can one use code to design a search box for a custom feed. New Wix Blog has search box for the blog page, but no search boxes for pages set up with custom feed add-on.