Using Wix Blog with Wix Code

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I’m trying to get my head around how to modify the new Wix blog with Wix Code, either through an API or code injection. Both Wix blog and Wix Code are developing platforms at the moment, and I don’t know their roadmaps so a steer would be welcome. Equally, the ideas presented here may, I hope, help you shape the roadmap for the Wix blog API.

Scenario: I want to build a membership site where members write reviews of products

New Wix Blog is already 95% of what I need so I don’t want to rebuilt these elements:

  • The blog post editor
  • The memberships
  • The commenting
  • The categories
  • The hashtags
  • The like buttons
    ^ These are all big features, so I don’t want, or have the capability, to rebuild them.

What I want to add is a couple of custom fields to the blog posts, to be entered by the user at the same time as the blog post. One of the custom fields will capture the products’s URL, the other custom field will capture the product’s price.

I’ve been discussing what I’m trying to build with the Wix Blog Product team in further detail at the link below, in particular see the posts towards the end of the thread , especially the one with the annotated picture of the user input fields
https://www.wix-blog-community.com/blog/custom-posts

I am wondering if Wix Code’s new API for blogs may be able to help with this?
E.g.:

  • Will it be possible to add extra fields to the blog database?
  • Will it be possible to output the blog database using the new Repeaters?
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Looking for same info…want to tie the blog to the repeaters. That would be the exact and powerful took I am needing

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How can one build a search bar for the blog feeds in New Wix blog?

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Very useful having custom fields in blogs.
To add to this, I would like to see the ability to link blogs to a collection.
e.g. I want to create a collection of business cases. The business case requires a rich text field for the actual business case detail.
But instead of using a rich text field, with the above capability I could use the better functionality of a blog article and link it to my collection
#LinkBlogsWithCollections

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i’m looking for the ability to add forum posts based on form information on another page by the click of a button

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Just follow this tutorial except do it with the blog database instead of the products database.

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The blog collection only returns plaintext content. If you add anything besides text to your blog posts you seem to be right out of luck.