How do i Change somthing?

[adamswbrown]

I would like to change the text for "Sticky Postings" to "Important News". How do i do this. My site is www.adambrowndesigns.co.uk. How? Im using the Earphone theme.

[garvinhicking]

You can do that by editing your entries.tpl file of your current template. If your template does not have that file, copy it over from the "default" directory.

Within that file, search for

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{$CONST.STICKY_POSTINGS}

and change it to:

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Important News

Best regards,
Garvin

[adamswbrown]

Where do i put the entries.tpl file?

Thank you very much Gavin

[garvinhicking]

Just copy the 'entries.tpl' file from templates/default/entries.tpl to the direcory of the template you are using. Like templates/earphone/ - I don't know the name of the earphone template by heart, but it must sound something like that.

Regards,
Garvin

[adamswbrown]

Thanks gavin. much apreiccated

[adamswbrown]

How would i change the look of a sticky posting? For example i would like to remove the comment links at the bottom of the stiky posting.

On a side note - how do install plugins, ive added them to the plugins directory on my websever (from the tgz file) and they dont appear)

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You could do that also with Smarty markup.

Like you could change this block:

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            <div class='serendipity_entryFooter'>
                {$CONST.POSTED_BY} <a href="{$entry.link_author}">{$entry.author}</a>
                {if $entry.categories}
                   {$CONST.IN} {foreach from=$entry.categories item="entry_category" name="categories"}<a href="{$entry_category.category_link}">{$entry_category.category_name|@escape}</a>{if not $smarty.foreach.categories.last}, {/if}{/foreach}
                {/if}

                {if $dategroup.is_sticky}
                    {$CONST.ON}
                {else}
                    {$CONST.AT}
                {/if} <a href="{$entry.link}">{if $dategroup.is_sticky}{$entry.timestamp|@formatTime:DATE_FORMAT_ENTRY} {/if}{$entry.timestamp|@formatTime:'%H:%M'}</a>

                {if $entry.has_comments}
                    {if $use_popups}
                        | <a href="{$entry.link_popup_comments}" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'comments', 'width=480,height=480,scrollbars=yes'); return false;">{$entry.label_comments} ({$entry.comments})</a>
                    {else}
                        | <a href="{$entry.link}#comments">{$entry.label_comments} ({$entry.comments})</a>
                    {/if}
                {/if}

                {if $entry.has_trackbacks}
                    {if $use_popups}
                        | <a href="{$entry.link_popup_trackbacks}" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'comments', 'width=480,height=480,scrollbars=yes'); return false;">{$entry.label_trackbacks} ({$entry.trackbacks})</a>
                    {else}
                        | <a href="{$entry.link}#trackbacks">{$entry.label_trackbacks} ({$entry.trackbacks})</a>
                    {/if}
                {/if}

                {if $entry.is_entry_owner and not $is_preview}
                        | <a href="{$entry.link_edit}">{$CONST.EDIT_ENTRY}</a>
                {/if}

                {$entry.add_footer}
            </div>

into this:

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{if $dategroup.is_sticky}
<!-- FOOTER OMITTED -->
{else}
            <div class='serendipity_entryFooter'>
                {$CONST.POSTED_BY} <a href="{$entry.link_author}">{$entry.author}</a>
                {if $entry.categories}
                   {$CONST.IN} {foreach from=$entry.categories item="entry_category" name="categories"}<a href="{$entry_category.category_link}">{$entry_category.category_name|@escape}</a>{if not $smarty.foreach.categories.last}, {/if}{/foreach}
                {/if}

                {if $dategroup.is_sticky}
                    {$CONST.ON}
                {else}
                    {$CONST.AT}
                {/if} <a href="{$entry.link}">{if $dategroup.is_sticky}{$entry.timestamp|@formatTime:DATE_FORMAT_ENTRY} {/if}{$entry.timestamp|@formatTime:'%H:%M'}</a>

                {if $entry.has_comments}
                    {if $use_popups}
                        | <a href="{$entry.link_popup_comments}" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'comments', 'width=480,height=480,scrollbars=yes'); return false;">{$entry.label_comments} ({$entry.comments})</a>
                    {else}
                        | <a href="{$entry.link}#comments">{$entry.label_comments} ({$entry.comments})</a>
                    {/if}
                {/if}

                {if $entry.has_trackbacks}
                    {if $use_popups}
                        | <a href="{$entry.link_popup_trackbacks}" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'comments', 'width=480,height=480,scrollbars=yes'); return false;">{$entry.label_trackbacks} ({$entry.trackbacks})</a>
                    {else}
                        | <a href="{$entry.link}#trackbacks">{$entry.label_trackbacks} ({$entry.trackbacks})</a>
                    {/if}
                {/if}

                {if $entry.is_entry_owner and not $is_preview}
                        | <a href="{$entry.link_edit}">{$CONST.EDIT_ENTRY}</a>
                {/if}

                {$entry.add_footer}
            </div>
{/if}

Note the added "IF" statement on the top that I added.

When you copy plugins into your plugins directory, you must go to your serendipity admin interface, go to "manage plugins" and enable them there!

Best regards,
Garvin

[adamswbrown]

Gavin, you are a god among men

[garvinhicking]

You are welcome. Have fun with Serendipity, and spread the word!

Best regards,
Garvin

[adamswbrown]

All working all good