HumHub Blog Module - Professional Publishing Platform

Transform your social network into a powerful content management and publishing platform

The HumHub Blog Module transforms your social network into a powerful content management and publishing platform. Designed specifically for HumHub v1.17.4, this comprehensive module enables users and spaces to create, manage, and share professional blog articles with advanced features that rival standalone blogging platforms.

Core Publishing Features

At its heart, the module provides a rich content creation experience with a full-featured editor supporting images, attachments, and rich formatting. Authors can craft engaging articles with automatic excerpt generation, SEO-optimized meta tags, and reading time estimates. The intelligent slug generation creates clean, search-friendly URLs while the revision system preserves content history for easy rollback.

Organization & Discovery

Content organization thrives through hierarchical categories and flexible tagging systems. The module supports nested category structures up to configurable depths, making it easy to organize large content libraries. A powerful search engine helps readers discover relevant articles, while archive views organize content chronologically. Tag clouds and category widgets enhance navigation throughout your blog.

Advanced Capabilities

The module excels with features like scheduled publishing for content planning, featured articles to highlight important posts, and comprehensive analytics tracking views and engagement. Social sharing integration expands reach across platforms, while RSS feeds keep subscribers informed. The responsive design ensures articles look beautiful on any device, from desktop to mobile.

Flexible Configuration

Administrators enjoy extensive control through a modern settings interface. Toggle features like comments, social sharing, and related articles. Configure URL patterns, image sizes, caching, and display options to match your needs. The module integrates seamlessly with HumHub's permission system, allowing fine-grained control over who can create, edit, and publish content.

Multi-Context Publishing

Articles can be published in user profiles or space contexts, with global blog views aggregating content across the network. The dual-URL system maintains SEO-friendly global URLs while preserving container-specific access, making the module perfect for both personal blogs and collaborative publishing.

Content Management

• ✅ Full article creation, editing, and deletion
• ✅ Draft, Published, Scheduled, and Archived statuses
• ✅ Rich text editor with media embedding
• ✅ Featured images with alt text
• ✅ Auto-generated and custom URL slugs
• ✅ Excerpt generation (auto or manual)
• ✅ Reading time calculation
• ✅ Content revisions and version history
• ✅ File attachments support

Organization

• ✅ Hierarchical categories (parent/child)
• ✅ Tag system with tag cloud
• ✅ Featured articles
• ✅ Article scheduling
• ✅ Multiple category assignment
• ✅ Related articles algorithm

SEO Optimization

• ✅ Custom meta titles and descriptions
• ✅ Open Graph tags (Facebook, LinkedIn)
• ✅ Twitter Card tags
• ✅ Schema.org JSON-LD markup (BlogPosting)
• ✅ Canonical URLs
• ✅ XML Sitemap generation
• ✅ SEO-friendly URL structure
• ✅ Image optimization metadata

Analytics

• ✅ View tracking (total + unique)
• ✅ Session-based deduplication
• ✅ Bot filtering
• ✅ Referrer tracking
• ✅ Analytics dashboard
• ✅ Popular articles widget
• ✅ Time-on-page tracking
• ✅ Article statistics

User Experience

• ✅ Mobile-responsive design
• ✅ Article cards with hover effects
• ✅ Author profile integration
• ✅ Author box with bio
• ✅ Social share buttons (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp)
• ✅ Related articles section
• ✅ Breadcrumb navigation
• ✅ Archive system (by date)
• ✅ Full-text search
• ✅ RSS feed generation

Permissions

• ✅ Create articles
• ✅ Manage own articles
• ✅ Manage all articles
• ✅ Publish articles
• ✅ Manage categories
• ✅ Role-based access control

Integration

• ✅ HumHub stream/wall integration
• ✅ Comment system integration
• ✅ File manager integration
• ✅ Notification system
• ✅ Search integration
• ✅ Space and profile integration

Performance

• ✅ Database indexing (10+ indexes)
• ✅ Query optimization
• ✅ Fragment caching ready
• ✅ Lazy loading support
• ✅ Optimized relationships

Security

• ✅ XSS prevention (HTML Purifier)
• ✅ CSRF protection
• ✅ SQL injection prevention (ActiveRecord)
• ✅ Permission checks everywhere
• ✅ Input validation
• ✅ Secure file handling

Requirements

• HumHub: Version 1.17.4 or higher
• PHP: Version 8.2 or higher
• Database: MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.2+
• Disk Space: At least 50MB free space
• Permissions: Write permissions on the HumHub uploads directory for the web server user.

1. Download: Obtain the module package (e.g., a ZIP file).
2. Extract & Place: Extract the contents and place the blog directory into your HumHub protected/modules/ folder.
3. Set Permissions: Ensure the web server can read and write necessary files within the module directory. Example commands for Linux:

   cd /path/to/humhub/protected/modules
   chmod -R 755 blog/
   chown -R www-data:www-data blog/ # Replace 'www-data' with your web server user
   
   

4. Enable:
   1. Log in as administrator.
   2. Go to Administration → Modules.
   3. Find the "Blog" module in the list.
   4. Click the Enable button.
5. Run Migrations: The module should automatically run its required database migrations upon enabling. If not, or if prompted, run them manually via the console: