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Expression Engine 2.0 compatiblity

2007-12-15T01:33:13-08:00

With the dev blog entry about Questions Concerning ExpressionEngine 2.0 Compatibility, some of you might be wondering if I will be converting the linklist or any other plugins I’ve created to fit with EE 2.0.

Well, I will if I have to. I only say this because will EE 2.0 have linklist/blogroll capabilities? I think so. And before you start wondering, no I haven’t gotten any word of that from anyone. I’m just predicting. But if not, then if I get a copy of the dev version of EE 2.0 to bring it up to specs, then I’ll do it. We’ll see how long till they have something for us developers though. I never anticipate any date unless it comes from the horses mouth, and well, they’re saying who knows when it’ll be ready to go out there.

So there you go, I thought I’d throw that out there before people who are using linklist now wonder if there was going to be a linklist 2.0.

Welcome to Modules and Plugins Support!

2007-03-13T17:17:17-08:00

If you’ve got any support questions with any modules or plugins, please post them here!

Show/Hide Code

2007-08-01T20:47:41-08:00

Not too sure if this is the right place for this question, but here I go..

I’ve posted this question in the EE forums HERE but got no response at all.

I want to use the More/Less feature in my EE site, but I can’t get it to work. I followed the instructions to a “T”, but I get a script error on my side.

Is there extra CSS modification involved or any changes to the code?

Currently the JS code is between the ‘head’ tags, and looks like this:

function showHide(entryID, entryLink, htmlObj, type) {

if (type == "more") {

extTextDivID = (’comText’ + (entryID));

extLinkDivID = (’comLink’ + (entryID));

} else {

extTextDivID = (’extText’ + (entryID));

extLinkDivID = (’extLink’ + (entryID));

}

if( document.getElementById ) {

if( document.getElementById(extTextDivID).style.display ) {

if( entryLink != 0 ) {

document.getElementById(extTextDivID).style.display = "block";

document.getElementById(extLinkDivID).style.display = "none";

htmlObj.blur();

} else { 

document.getElementById(extTextDivID).style.display = "none";

document.getElementById(extLinkDivID).style.display = "block";

}

} else {

location.href = entryLink;

return true;

}

} else {

location.href = entryLink;

return true;

}

}

My entry tag looks like this:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="faculty" limit="15"}

<h1>{title}</h1>

{body}

{if extended !=""}

<div id="extLink{entry_id}">

<a href="[removed]void(0);" name="ext{entry_id}" onclick="showHide({entry_id},’{permalink}’,this,’entry’);return false;">Read More...</a>

</div>

<div id="extText{entry_id}" style="display:none">

{extended}

<a href="[removed]void(0);" onclick="showHide({entry_id},0,this,’entry’);return true;">Read Less...</a>

</div>

{/if}

{if allow_comments}
({comment_total}) <a href="{url_title_path="{musiced}/comments"}">Comments</a> &#8226;
{/if}

<div class="spacer"></div>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

What am I missing?

Thanks SOOO much for any help you can give me!!!!

Not The Plugin Per Se

2007-07-07T02:54:57-08:00

I’ve been using your On This Day plugin for years and years. Thank you thank you soooo much for creating it. It’s nice to see where I’ve been and how far I’ve come sometimes. Anyhow, I’m having a problem, not with the plugin or how the plugin works, but with something else that probably has an easy fix, but I don’t know exactly what it is.

On my index page, “On This Day” displays what was written in previous years on *today’s date* regardless of whatever entry is showing. (I only display the most recent on my index page.) However, on the permalink entries, “this” day becomes whatever date you’re viewing. In other words, if I view a permalink page for December 25, 2004, it’ll show me all entries written on December 25, not all entries written on today’s date.

With me so far?

Everything plugin wise works wonderfully. The issue comes in because I display only an excerpt for each entry written. Even that isn’t an issue. The issue is that sometimes (often!) I will begin a post with a quote or lyrics that I’ve put in blockquotes or list format or some other wonky text formatting and when the excerpt is done, the wonky formatting doesn’t end. That means if I used blockquote to begin the entry, the WHOLE rest of the page, including other “on this day” links and even the comments for that entry are all in the blockquote style that I have assigned.

Let me show you an example:

Here you can see that “on this day” was blank. I hadn’t written anything on that particular date in previous years so there’s no quoted entry, nothing to fuss with the way that the comments display. They display properly and with nice black text, etc. Lovely.

Now in this example, you can see things aren’t so lovely. I started out the first item in the “previous years” list with a blockquote, so the whole rest of the page ends up in a blockquote tag instead of ending before the [read more]. The comments are hard to read because the color used isn’t the one intended since it’s intended for blockquote. Yes, I could change the color for blockquote, but, well, the whole comment section shouldn’t be blockquoted. Or bold. Or in italics. Or whatever strange thing that got interrupted when the excerpt ended.

My long winded explanation is this: Is there a way to close all the tags at the end of the excerpt?

Link List Help

2007-07-07T10:18:02-08:00

I’m kind of new to EE and I can’t figure out how to add Link List to my sidebar. Is there documentation available on how to do this?

Twittervision

2007-03-27T08:03:30-08:00

This is cool! View twitters from around the world.

link: http://twittervision.com/

Wednesday Update

2007-03-21T22:30:26-08:00

Before I let you in on updates on the site, I just want to shout out to everyone to visit Mom’s Cafe Home Cooking, go take a visit and get some really good recipes and learn a thing or two. You can click on her thumbnail on the right in the sidebar. Tell her we sent you!

You may notice a few things have been changed, and revamped. First of all, hopefully you notice the “Submit your Recipe” link in the sidebar. You can now submit your recipes to be posted on the site. If you’ve got any recipes you’d like to share, please do so! The only thing you’ll need to do is sign up for membership. It’s FREE and painless, I promise! No one is going to sell you information.

You’ll also notice that the recipe type posts are now in a recipe type look. If you have any suggestions, please let us know! We definitely look forward to your feedback and we can always use it!

You may or may not notice that we’ve implemented a few new changes, here and there, hopefully to make the site look better. If you’re having any issues with the layout, please let us know about it.

Simple Pagination Plugin for Expression Engine

2007-03-21T22:18:12-08:00

I know what you’re thinking. ExpressionEngine already has pagination, why do we need a plugin for this? Well, Dom Stubbs of Vaya Design made this plugin for allowing pagination within one entry simply by adding a single tag within entry: {pagebreak}. Using that tag within your entry, you can paginate a very long entry without the use of multiple custom weblog fields.

This is an impressive plugin and I’m currently using it on the hello! Food site. It comes in very handy when I’ve got a long review that just needs to be broken down into separate pages.

For more information, you can visit the original post.

Review my blog

2007-03-20T10:24:52-08:00

I’ve heard some talk here and there about the cynicism of the “Review my blog” sites. Basically, not that the review was actually meaningful, or in humour, or at the very least, an actual critique, but that those sites were basically a means to get publicity for your site, and to somehow raise your pagerank, or alexa score, or your technorati rating. Is this true? And if so, does it work?

It definitely seems like it works for quite a few people. Take John Chow dot com for example. You can review his site, and say anything about it, good or bad, and as long as you follow his linking rules, you will get a return back link from him. This seems to go over so well, he is getting close to being number one for the term, “Make Money Online”.

And that’s because people are reviewing his site. All he asks for are the links back in a certain fashion. While this might seem unconventional, it works for John Chow.

Then there are the other sites who review your site. I won’t link or mention any sites that do this, because there are just so many. But do they drive traffic to your site? Sure they do. Even if the review is bad, it will drive traffic to your site. Why? It’s what I call the Howard Stern (the radio shock jock) Syndrome. People will see your stuff, even if it’s bad, because they want to see what you do next. They want to know if you are going to do anything differently, if you’re going to offend anyone else, or just plain do anything.

Of course, another benefit of site reviews is the occasional new fan. Someone will come to your site because of a positive (or negative) review and actually like your site. This will then cause the said fan to link to your site, and their readers will find you as well, and maybe some of those readers will like your site and link to your site. And so on and so on. And that’s only one review site. With the number of review sites out there, this could exponentially blow up into thousands of sites. (Okay, I might be exaggerating just a little bit.) But you get my point.

Now, I’m sure by now, you’re thinking, “isn’t this like cheating the system?” Oh my, it could be construed as such. But honestly. Be real now. Is it really cheating? Is it the same as the spammer websites out there that drive traffic to their site by creating “dummy” websites that try to hog all the search engine results? No, I don’t think so. I think this is just plain old shameless self promotion.

It could be comparable to say an actor, who releases a movie, and will go on public appearances on all the talk shows. They need to publicize the movie. They need to have people out there knowing that they’ve got something new or something going on so they can get people to come see it.

So the next time you see a review site, and you’re tempted to get your site reviewed, just remember good or bad, it’s most likely going to do you some good by raising your rank on the internet. Does it work? If you work hard enough, I’m pretty sure it will. Look at John Chow. He’s doing it. Why can’t you?

Featured Site of the Week: Mom’s Cafe Home Cooking

2007-03-19T19:13:50-08:00

I’d like to take the time to welcome our featured site of the week, Mom’s Cafe Home Cooking. “Garden Gnome” is a wife and mother who definitely loves the many aspects of homemaking. Her site has plenty of recipes, and a few tips and tricks. It makes me hungry just reading her site! Which is a good thing most of the time. Please go take a visit my clicking on her thumbnail to the right, and tell her that we sent you!