Forums / Cotonti / Extensions / Tutorial: A home away from home, building a blogging site - Part 1 of 3

It's good to build such a tutorial so that future Cotonti users could have a step-by-step blog building guide. I just do not understand what is wrong with the news plugin and why it should be renamed. Cotonti has all (well, most) facilities required to build a blog out of the box. What is missing here is "recent items by cat" which is basically a plugin that can be easily developed and added to the downloads. Issue of Cotonti as a blogging platform is a long-lasting discussion, and some things (like tags support in the news plugin) are added occasionally to the core to make the blog-building task easier. There are still some features missing (like tags in list items), so rather than misleading users we should identify the key blog features and discuss ways to implement them in the core or plugins.