uBlogsy (webforms) PostService showing no posts on landing page - umbraco

Question

I'm using uBlogsy WebForms 3.0.2 on Umbraco 6.1.5...
And the posts on the landing page are not showing up.
The function PostService.Instance.GetPosts is returning 0 posts, even though there are posts in the correct location.
I still get 0 posts when I try to substitute this:
var posts = PostService.Instance
.GetPosts(
IPublishedContentHelper.GetNode((int)Model.Id)
).ToIPublishedContent(true);
int postCount = posts.Count();
Would anyone know why the PostService isn't working? Or, what is going on?

Answer 1

I had same problem couple of times with Ublogsy. So I decided to write my own codes as below:
(Its a bit long)
// get tag, label, or author from query string
var tag = Request.QueryString["tag"] ?? "";
var label = Request.QueryString["label"] ?? "";
var author = Request.QueryString["author"] ?? "";
var searchTerm = Request.QueryString["search"] ?? "";
var commenter = Request.QueryString["commenter"] ?? "";
int page = int.TryParse(Request.QueryString["page"], out page) ? page : 1;
var year = Request.QueryString["year"] ?? "";
var month = Request.QueryString["month"] ?? "";
var day = Request.QueryString["day"] ?? "";
int postCount;
IEnumerable<IPublishedContent> posts = new BlockingCollection<IPublishedContent>();
var filterResults = this.FilterAgainstPosts(this.Model.Content, tag, label, author, searchTerm, commenter, year, month);
if (filterResults != null)
{
posts = Enumerable.Take(filterResults.Skip((page - 1) * itemsPerPage), itemsPerPage);
}
#RenderForLanding(posts)
And my FilterAgainstPosts method is as follow:
#functions
{
private IEnumerable<IPublishedContent> FilterAgainstPosts(IPublishedContent landing, string tag, string label, string author, string searchTerm, string commenter, string year, string month)
{
IEnumerable<IPublishedContent> filteredPosts = landing.DescendantsOrSelf("uBlogsyPost").Where(x => x.GetProperty("umbracoNaviHide").Value.ToString() != "1");
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(searchTerm))
{
filteredPosts = filteredPosts.ForEach(i => this.FilterAgainstTerm(i, searchTerm));
}
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(tag))
{
filteredPosts = filteredPosts.ForEach(i => this.FilterUponTag(i, i.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostTags").Value.ToString(), tag));
}
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(label))
{
filteredPosts = filteredPosts.ForEach(i => this.FilterUponLabel(i, i.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostLabels").Value.ToString(), label));
}
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(author))
{
filteredPosts = filteredPosts.ForEach(i => this.FilterUponAuthor(i, i.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostAuthor").Value.ToString(), author));
}
//
//TODO: Coomenter search needs to added
//
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(year))
{
filteredPosts = filteredPosts.ForEach(i => this.FilterUponYear(i, i.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostDate").Value.ToString(), year));
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(month))
{
filteredPosts = filteredPosts.ForEach(i => this.FilterUponMonth(i, i.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostDate").Value.ToString(), month));
}
return filteredPosts.WhereNotNull();
}
private IPublishedContent FilterUponMonth(IPublishedContent currentNode, string postDate, string month)
{
DateTime postedDate;
if (DateTime.TryParse(postDate, out postedDate) && postedDate.Month.ToString() == month) return currentNode;
return null;
}
private IPublishedContent FilterUponYear(IPublishedContent currentNode, string postDate, string year)
{
DateTime postedDate;
if (DateTime.TryParse(postDate, out postedDate) && postedDate.Year.ToString() == year) return currentNode;
return null;
}
private IPublishedContent FilterUponAuthor(IPublishedContent currentNode, string authorId, string author)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(authorId)) return null;
//Loads relevant node
int authorNodeId = -1;
if (!Int32.TryParse(authorId, out authorNodeId)) return null;
Node authorNode = new Node(authorNodeId);
//Trims the author name and search for given name
if (authorNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyAuthorName") != null && authorNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyAuthorName").Value.ToUpper().Trim().Contains(author.ToUpper())) return currentNode;
return null;
}
private Boolean FilterUponAuthor(string authorId, string author)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(authorId)) return false;
int authorNodeId = -1;
if (!Int32.TryParse(authorId, out authorNodeId)) return false;
Node authorNode = new Node(authorNodeId);
if (authorNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyAuthorName") != null && authorNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyAuthorName").Value.ToUpper().Trim().Contains(author.ToUpper())) return true;
return false;
}
private Boolean FilterUponCategories(string categoryIds, string category)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(categoryIds)) return false;
int categoryNodeID = -1;
foreach (string catID in categoryIds.Split(','))
{
if (!Int32.TryParse(catID, out categoryNodeID)) continue;
Node categoryNode = new Node(categoryNodeID);
if (categoryNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyLabelName") != null && categoryNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyLabelName").Value.ToUpper().Trim().Contains(category.ToUpper())) return true;
}
return false;
}
private Boolean FilterUponTags(string tagIds, string tag)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(tagIds)) return false;
int tagNodeID = -1;
foreach (string tagID in tagIds.Split(','))
{
if (!Int32.TryParse(tagID, out tagNodeID)) continue;
Node tagNode = new Node(tagNodeID);
if (tagNode.GetProperty("uTagsyTagName") != null && tagNode.GetProperty("uTagsyTagName").Value.ToUpper().Trim().Contains(tag.ToUpper())) return true;
}
return false;
}
private IPublishedContent FilterUponLabel(IPublishedContent currentNode, string nodeIDs, string label)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(nodeIDs)) return null;
foreach (string nodeId in nodeIDs.Split(','))
{
int labelNodeId = -1;
if (!Int32.TryParse(nodeId, out labelNodeId))
continue;
//Loads relevant node
Node labelNode = new Node(labelNodeId);
if (labelNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyLabelName") != null && labelNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyLabelName").Value.ToUpper().Trim().Contains(label.ToUpper())) return currentNode;
}
return null;
}
private IPublishedContent FilterAgainstTerm(IPublishedContent currentNode, string searchTerm)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(searchTerm)) return currentNode;
if (currentNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyContentTitle").Value.ToString().ToUpper().Contains(searchTerm.ToUpper()) ||
currentNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyContentSummary").Value.ToString().ToUpper().Contains(searchTerm.ToUpper()) ||
currentNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyContentBody").Value.ToString().ToUpper().Contains(searchTerm.ToUpper()) ||
currentNode.GetProperty("uBlogsySeoKeywords").Value.ToString().ToUpper().Contains(searchTerm.ToUpper()) ||
currentNode.GetProperty("uBlogsySeoDescription").Value.ToString().ToUpper().Contains(searchTerm.ToUpper()) ||
currentNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyNavigationTitle").Value.ToString().ToUpper().Contains(searchTerm.ToUpper()) ||
FilterUponAuthor(currentNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostAuthor").Value.ToString(), searchTerm.ToUpper()) ||
FilterUponCategories(currentNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostLabels").Value.ToString(), searchTerm.ToUpper()) ||
FilterUponTags(currentNode.GetProperty("uBlogsyPostTags").Value.ToString(), searchTerm.ToUpper())
)
return currentNode;
return null;
}
private IPublishedContent FilterUponTag(IPublishedContent currentNode, string nodeIDs, string tag)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(nodeIDs)) return null;
foreach (string nodeId in nodeIDs.Split(','))
{
int tagNodeId = -1;
if (!Int32.TryParse(nodeId, out tagNodeId))
continue;
// Loads relevant TagNode
Node tagNode = new Node(tagNodeId);
if (tagNode.GetProperty("uTagsyTagName") != null && tagNode.GetProperty("uTagsyTagName").Value.ToUpper().Contains(tag.ToUpper())) return currentNode;
}
return null;
}
}