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chadi · Post by **chadi** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:08 am

I know how to make static pages but how do I make other page like the frontpage that I can install different plugins on controlled by the admin pages?

Thanks
Chadi

Post by **yellowled** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:49 pm

chadi wrote:I know how to make static pages but how do I make other page like the frontpage that I can install different plugins on controlled by the admin pages?

There are no silly questions, there are just silly answers

However, I don't get what kind of page you want to create - a static page or a blog entry? What purpose should this page serve?

YL

chadi · Post by **chadi** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:29 pm

Well a Blog Page would be fine but I was asking generally how would I create any page that will be managed by the admin tool and also allow me to install plugins to it. One idea would be to have a page called News and the how page in news pulled in via RSS for example.

Thanks
Chadi

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:10 pm

Hi!

You coudl try to use the system to layout each category differently. Using plugins you can assign distinct templates to each category view (categorytemplates plugin), making those your "blog pages". And you can also assign different sidebars to each category with the sidebar hider plugin.

Pulling in RSSis done with the RSS aggregator s9y plugin.

Regards,
Garvin

chadi · Post by **chadi** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:30 am

There is no simple way to have basically Pg 2 of the frontpage where it is controlled by the admin page? In other apps you create additional pages the same way the static pages are. I did try the RSS feeds but they aren't feeding.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:27 pm

Hi!

I don't understand what you mean? Please explain more detailed. Serendipity has the Static Page plugin, did you try that?

And what do you mean with "they aren't feeding"? What did you do, exactly?

Regards,
Garvin

chickens · Post by **chickens** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:55 pm

I believe what they are looking for is a CMS that offers different plugins on each page. So on page1 you have one set of plugins and then on page2 its something completely different.

At least that is what I got out of the questions.

chadi · Post by **chadi** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:40 am

To me static means a page that has no active content i.e. rss, wiki, blog...
What would be great is to have an admin item that says "create page and perhap have a couple of choices like blog page, pic gallery etc and based on that choice an associate plugins in placed there still controlled (edited) by the central admin function. Even a blank page that you could add the plugins to would be great. With a page dedicated to news, you could place rss widgets covering all 3 columns for example.

Feed example feed://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/cricket/rss.xml
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Thanks for your comments
Chadi

Post by **yellowled** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:52 am

chadi wrote:What would be great is to have an admin item that says "create page and perhap have a couple of choices like blog page, pic gallery etc and based on that choice an associate plugins in placed there still controlled (edited) by the central admin function. Even a blank page that you could add the plugins to would be great.

See, the difference in s9y is that you can in fact have (sidebar) plugins on static pages. I think you can also (but someone correct me if I'm wrong) put the output of at least some plugins in other places than the sidebars, but that's going to require some extra work, i.e. editing template files etc. Might not be worth the effort. It is, after all, a blog engine that can be tweaked to act like a CMS, but it does not offer anything some CMS frameworks like i.e. Typo3 do.

YL

chadi · Post by **chadi** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:42 pm

Thanks Yellowled, I had a site with e107 another nuke like CMS in the past I think I thought everything was a Nuke knock-off

I'll play a bit and see what I can do. Just gotta get my feeds running now. I will say that I saw some example s9y blogs for the forum and their are some beautiful sites to be made in s9y.

chadi · Post by **chadi** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:11 am

No one wants to comment on my RSS feed issue?
See above for details

Thanks
Chadi

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:07 pm

Hi!

chadi wrote:No one wants to comment on my RSS feed issue?
See above for details

You can create your own category "News stuff" and use the plugin "Show/hide sidebars". With that you can place individual sidebar plugins that are only displayed when the visitor is viewing a specific category on your blog.

Regards,
Garvin

chadi · Post by **chadi** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:51 pm

Understood, however now I have rss feeds setup on the frontpage that do not work, I put a link above to my configuration.

Thanks
Chadi

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:42 pm

Hi!

feed:// is not a valid address, you must use http://blablanla.

Regards,
Garvin

chadi · Post by **chadi** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:34 pm

These are my feeds, they open in my browser, do they have to be formatted differently for the feed reader plugin?

www.irinnews.org/RSS/Middle_East.xml
www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/MiddleEast.xml
www.danielpipes.org/pipes_articles_rss_2.0.xml
newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/cricket/rss.xml

Thanks
Chadi

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