Most of the methods available in the ContentManager class could be used to manage blog posts. For more information on how to work with the ContentManager methods, see Generic Content API Overview of Generic Content API.

This topic will provide two examples to demonstrate how to use the BlogManager class and manage post items while at the same time applying ContentManager methods.

 Create a blog post:

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// create new instance of BlogManager Telerik.Blogs.BlogManager blogManager = new Telerik.Blogs.BlogManager(); // get all blogs IList listOfAllBlogs = blogManager.GetBlogs(); if (listOfAllBlogs.Count > 0) {    // get the first blog item    Telerik.Blogs.IBlog firstBlog = blogManager.GetBlog(((Telerik.Blogs.IBlog)listOfAllBlogs[0]).ID);    // create a blog post by calling the CreateContent method of the    // ContentManager class through the BlogManager class    Telerik.Cms.Engine.IContent postContent = blogManager.Content.CreateContent("text/html");    // set the parent of the post item to be firstBlog    postContent.ParentID = firstBlog.ID;    // save the Content property value and the Title meta key    postContent.Content = "My first Post Item includes ...";    postContent.SetMetaData("Title", "My Post Item 1");    //save the Content item through the BlogManager    blogManager.Content.SaveContent(postContent);    Response.Write(firstBlog.Name + " has following content : " + postContent.Content + "<br />"); }

Although BlogManager uses ContentManager class methods for the post items, which includes GetMetaData and SetMetaData, the Blogs module has specific meta keys which differ from the Generic Content ones. This means that when using the two methods for meta keys, you should use the Blogs meta keys. Here they are: Title Author Publication_Date BlogID Category

Get all content for the current Blogs provider:

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// create new instance of BlogManager Telerik.Blogs.BlogManager blogManager = new Telerik.Blogs.BlogManager(); // get all blog posts IList listOfPosts = blogManager.Content.GetContent(); if (listOfPosts.Count > 0) {    foreach (Telerik.Cms.Engine.IContent newsItem in listOfPosts)        Response.Write(newsItem.GetMetaData("Title") + "<br />"); }

Apart from the methods that could be used from the ContentManager class, there are several more methods for managing blog posts, and they are provided only in the BlogManager class. Here they are: 

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