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Erich, you are as smart as your ListPages per Category system.
PS: when you add a blog:post, may I suggest you to insert "====" after a few lines,
gerdami, your suggestion was my command: ==== inserted; teaser is now much shorter
> to incite the reader to go to the post itself
To “incite” anyone we'd probably have to change this ugly blog layout. Why does it have its own theme, breaking with the site layout? And that monster yellow-green table thing?
XD XD XD XD XD
ROFLOLMAO
I couldn't agree more! (but I didn't want to offend somebody by being the first to say it)
λ James Kanjo
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Web Developer | HTML | CSS | JavaScript
That "monster yellow-green table thing" was perhaps James' attempt at patriotism? Edit: Oh, it wasn't, cos Erich created the page. Sorry James.
Rob
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Isn't it a terrible colour combination for any sort of patriotism? That's why we got it — 'cause all the other good combinations were already taken XD
EDIT:
FYI,
gerdami created the table, on the _template page.
λ James Kanjo
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Just came back from Tilff's Carnaval.
Much ado about nothing.
I don't mind the choice of colours (or colors).
I totally agree with you.
However, when James (thank you, James) suggested to change to LastPages based blog, I tried this with named colors to help me figure out the boundaries of the tables used, and also to help wikidot newbies understand the logic behind the page. A beautiful black frameborder is invisible against a black background …
Wikidot's Community is not mine, it is OUR.
Nahh, I just wrote a tutorial on how to do one… YOU were the one who took it further and update the community blog. The credit must go to you… so thankyou gerdami!
Yes, I figured that was the case. Do you know, I've been meaning to write a tutorial on how to do everything to do with Tables? If I do that, then it won't really be necessary to teach the newbies colourisation in tables via this blog…. maybe? It's debatable that one.
λ James Kanjo
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Web Developer | HTML | CSS | JavaScript
gedami is right - the borders are really very clear to see! :)
And I think this is better than a beautiful colorization.
I wounder more about the "themes" always changing betwenn main - screens/forums and:
A very old rule says - never change a running system - the confusion is greater then the win in most cases.
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
Sie können fragen und mitwirken in der deutschsprachigen » User-Gemeinschaft für WikidotNutzer oder
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I've said it before — I wish I could borrow Erich's brain for awhile. This is a great package.
I've adapted it and replicated it on a test site, and mostly it works really well.
But there's one trick I can't reproduce. Erich uses a combination of _templating and includes to pass two variables — a {$heading} and a {$category}. You can see the result — on this page, he passes them via the page's %%content{1}%%. On most of the other category pages, these variables are drawn from elsewhere.
I'm really interested in applying this same strategy here and elsewhere on our site. But it's not working for me. I try to use the same technique here (_default) and here (all), but on these pages my Listpages persists in drawing the heading and category variables from elsewhere, same as in all the other "category" pages.
Why doesn't this trick work for me? I've methodically pored over all the components, and I can't see a relevant difference between our pages:
Any insights? I sure would appreciate it. Thanks.
I also dumbed down the model and reached the same unsuccessful result:
_template
listpages
target page
If I understand Erich's method, the target page should populate the list via the template. But it doesn't.
OK, I've found the cause of the problem. Something changed in the compile process and %%content{1}%% is no longer being pulled out correctly. Old pages still work, new ones don't. I've reproduced the error on http://community.wikidot.com/category:default simply by making a trivial change and saving, and now you can see it's broken.
I'm going to report this to http://bugs.wikidot.com.
Portfolio
Please see bug report at http://bugs.wikidot.com/bug:16.
There is a simple workaround for cases where you need only a single parameter from the content. But for two or more parameters we need to fix that bug.
Portfolio
Thanks Pieter. That was crazy-making. I'll track the progress of the bug report.
We've got this great method for site-wide listpages by category. It's been invaluable for managing our growing site. But it doesn't pick up new categories, and it's not very straightforward to figure out which categories aren't yet in the list.
Under the current method, I'm thinking a ListCategories module would still involve creating a new page, category:%%category%%. But the module could at least provide the user with a direct link to create those new (empty) pages.
If we had ListCategories, this method could be a package that automatically applies to any site.
http://blog.wikidot.com/weneed:210