I have completed work on my new free course for Blocs for iPad, and now I will shift my focus to the Blocs 5 Course. While I will keep adding new masterclass tutorials to Part 3, my next major releases will focus on BLOGGING with Blocs.
I have previously covered Volt CMS (which is great), so now I would like to explore two other scenarios (listed below in the poll).
You donât need Volt CMS to create a blog; itâs expensive and not aesthetically pleasing. A free alternative is https://www.sanity.io/.
A quick explanation on how to use Sanity with in Blocs.
Visit the Sanity website (https://www.sanity.io/) and sign up for a free account. Once youâve created your account, log in to Sanity.
In Sanity, create a new project by selecting âCreate New Project.â Give your project a name and configure the options according to your preferences.
Once youâve created the project in Sanity, go to the âContentâ section in the admin panel and define the content types youâll need for your blog, such as âArticles,â âCategories,â etc. You can customize these content types according to your specific requirements.
Now, within Blocs, select the area where you want to display your blog posts. You can use the âHTML Widgetâ component to add custom HTML code.
In the Sanity admin panel, select âAPIâ from the menu and copy the GraphQL API URL of your project.
Return to Blocs and paste the following code into the âHTML Widgetâ component:
Thatâs an interesting solution. Just, accessing a API URL without leaving website visitors the choice if they want to allow that is so against the GDPR. Or am I missing something here?
It will be implemented on your site, sanity would be like a dashboard where you can create new articles and display them on your site. If you take a look at the documentation you will see that you can access the server from your localhost.
I love Volt and the support from @Jannis is just brilliant.
My issue with these free offerings is how long will it be freeâŚ.or even around? VOLT is here and able to use over and over again due to the brilliant work from Jannis.
Thanks for sharing. I havenât used it (Sanity) myself, so canât compare it directly, but I do think that VOLT is the best 3rd party bric for Blocs, which brings a lot of value to the average Blocs app user. Canât wait to see what @Jannis does with the second version!
I really appreciate all the effort you have put into Volt, I know how hard it is to create an application of this type, but my comments are merely constructive, in the years that I have been critical with your app, I have not seen many changes. I also believe that we must take into account all feedback, positive and negative, and our product will thank us in the long run.