You can use search based solution like in this post Creating a latest blog posts web part
The steps to do this are:
- Perform a full crawl of a content source which has at least one blog
post and a comment
- Add a Managed Property for the number of comments and name it
something appropriate, e.g. NumComments
- Add a Search Core Results web part to the page you wish to display
the latest blog posts web part on:
- I’ve chosen the My Newsfeed page so that it can display alongside the
Activity Feed
- It may be necessary to activate the Search Server Web Parts site
collection feature if the web parts are not immediately available
- Configure the Search Core Results web part:
- Add a column mapping for the new managed property NumComments
- Add in customised XSL to display the results
- Provide a Fixed Keyword Query of “contenttype:post”
- Limit the amount of items returned (I’ve gone for 5 in this example)
- Modify to sort the results by modified date
The XSL I’ve used for the web part:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:x= "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:d= "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp"
version= "1.0"
exclude-result-prefixes= "d xsl msxsl ddwrt xmlns x __designer WebControls asp ddwrt2"
xmlns:ddwrt= "http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime"
xmlns:asp= "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ASPNET/20"
xmlns:__designer= "http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/designer"
xmlns:xsl= "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl= "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:WebControls= "Microsoft.Sharepoint.WebControls"
xmlns:ddwrt2= "urn:frontpage:internal">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="no"/>
<xsl:template match="Result">
<xsl:variable name="blogPath">
<xsl:call-template name="getblogpath">
<xsl:with-param name="encodedPath" select="url" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<li class="blogListPost">
<!-- date box -->
<div class="blogListPostDate">
<div class="ms-postcalendardateboxtop" id="PostDateTopBox"/>
<div class="ms-postcalendardateboxbottom" id="PostDateBottomBox">
<div>
<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDateTime(string(write),1033, 'MMMM dd')" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="blogListPostBlock">
<!-- Title -->
<h4>
<a style="color: #295AC6;">
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="url"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="title" />
</a>
</h4>
<!-- Date and Summary -->
<div class="blogListPostPostedDateAndSummary">
<span class="ms-PostFooter blogListPostPostedBy">
Posted by
<xsl:value-of select="author" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
on
<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDate(string(write),1027, 1)" />
</span>
<p class="ms-PostBody blogListPostBody">
<xsl:value-of select="hithighlightedsummary" disable-output-escaping="yes" />...
</p>
</div>
<!-- Blog links -->
<ol class="blogListPostLinks">
<!-- Permalink -->
<li class="blogListPostLinksItem">
<span style="vertical-align:middle;">
<span style="position: relative; width: 16px; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden;">
<a style="width: 16px; display: inline-block; height: 16px;">
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="url"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<img longdesc="Permanent Link to Post" class="imglink" title="Permanent Link to Post" style="left: 0px ! important; top: -412px ! important; position: absolute;" alt="Permanent Link to Post" src="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png" />
</a>
</span>
</span>
</li>
<!-- Email link -->
<li class="blogListPostLinksItem">
<span style="vertical-align: middle;">
<span style="position: relative; width: 16px; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden;">
<a style="width: 16px; display: inline-block; height: 16px;">
<xsl:attribute name="href">
javascript:navigateMailToLink('
<xsl:value-of select="url"/>
')
</xsl:attribute>
<img longdesc="Email Post Link" class="imglink" title="Email Post Link" style="left: 0px ! important; top: -267px ! important; position: absolute;" alt="Email Post Link" src="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png" />
</a>
</span>
</span>
</li>
<!-- Comments -->
<li class="blogListPostLinksItem last">
<span style="vertical-align: middle;">
<span style="position: relative; width: 16px; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden;">
<a style="width: 16px; display: inline-block; height: 16px;">
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="url"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<img longdesc="Number of Comments" class="imglink" title="Number of Comments" style="left: 0px ! important; top: -396px ! important; position: absolute;" alt="Number of Comments" src="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png" />
</a>
</span>
<span>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="url"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="numcomments"/>
Comment(s)
</a>
</span>
</span>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
</li>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="TotalResults">
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="NumberOfResults">
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="getblogpath">
<xsl:param name="encodedPath"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($encodedPath, '/')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($encodedPath, '/')"/>/<xsl:call-template name="getblogpath">
<xsl:with-param name="encodedPath" select="substring-after($encodedPath, '/')" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<xsl:attribute name="href">
/_layouts/1033/styles/Themable/blog.css
</xsl:attribute>
</link>
<style type="text/css">
.s4-ca {width:100%;}
.blogList {list-style-type: none; padding:0;margin:0;}
.blogListPost {border-bottom:1px dashed #CCCCCC;padding:10px 0;margin:0;}
.blogListPost:hover {background-color:#F5F5F5;}
.blogListPostDate {float:left;width:90px;padding-left:20px;}
.blogListPostBlock {margin-left:110px;}
.blogListPostBlock h4 {padding:0;margin:0;}
.blogListPostPostedDateAndSummary {display:block;}
.blogListPostPostedBy { }
.blogListPostBody {padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0;}
.blogListPostLinks {list-style-type:none;padding:0;}
.blogListPostLinksItem {display:inline;padding:0 10px 0 10px;border-right:Solid 1px #999999;}
.blogListPostLinksItem.last {border:none;}
</style>
<ol class="blogList">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</ol>
</xsl:template>
<!-- End of Stylesheet -->
</xsl:stylesheet>
