Custom Serendipity Blog Implementation
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 9:55 am
Hi,
I am building a website for a band and was in need of a simple solution for allowing the site owner to login remotely and create/add News & Updates items to the site, while also broadcasting an RSS feed to simultaneously update his Reverbnation & Myspace pages automatically. I looked into several different solutions and settled on Serendipity as my interface of choice.
I have hacked up one of the templates and stripped down the UI so that it suits my purposes. Now I am faced with a problem and I was hoping someone could help me out here:
It is important to note, just for some context here, that each menu section of the website is being displayed in it's own IFRAME inside of it's own layer, and these layers appear and disappear based on which menu item is selected.
There are two menu items on the site for which I want to display the blog in an IFRAME. One is "Home" and the other is "News". I want the News section to display my Blog Description, "News & Updates", at the top of the page, including up to 10 entries below it. I've got that part down and it looks perfect.
For the Home section, I wanted to display only the first 2 blog items, just to keep things very basic and not invest too much time into it. Therein lies problem #1: The homelink2 header is still going to be displayed as "News & Updates", and I don't want that to happen. So rather than completely dissecting my template's CSS file all over again and spending hours trying to figure out how to manipulate it into working for me, I am considering creating a completely separate blog document to display on the Home page. In that case, I could let the site owner change/update the greeting that is generated on the Home page as an independent document.
But I don't know exactly how to do that in a way that causes the homelink2 header to no longer display "News & Updates" at the top of the new page. If it is, is there any relatively simple way for me to get rid of/change that header just for this one page without haveing to create an entirely separate installation of Serendipity for use with the Home section?
Thanks in advance!
Chris
I am building a website for a band and was in need of a simple solution for allowing the site owner to login remotely and create/add News & Updates items to the site, while also broadcasting an RSS feed to simultaneously update his Reverbnation & Myspace pages automatically. I looked into several different solutions and settled on Serendipity as my interface of choice.
I have hacked up one of the templates and stripped down the UI so that it suits my purposes. Now I am faced with a problem and I was hoping someone could help me out here:
It is important to note, just for some context here, that each menu section of the website is being displayed in it's own IFRAME inside of it's own layer, and these layers appear and disappear based on which menu item is selected.
There are two menu items on the site for which I want to display the blog in an IFRAME. One is "Home" and the other is "News". I want the News section to display my Blog Description, "News & Updates", at the top of the page, including up to 10 entries below it. I've got that part down and it looks perfect.
For the Home section, I wanted to display only the first 2 blog items, just to keep things very basic and not invest too much time into it. Therein lies problem #1: The homelink2 header is still going to be displayed as "News & Updates", and I don't want that to happen. So rather than completely dissecting my template's CSS file all over again and spending hours trying to figure out how to manipulate it into working for me, I am considering creating a completely separate blog document to display on the Home page. In that case, I could let the site owner change/update the greeting that is generated on the Home page as an independent document.
But I don't know exactly how to do that in a way that causes the homelink2 header to no longer display "News & Updates" at the top of the new page. If it is, is there any relatively simple way for me to get rid of/change that header just for this one page without haveing to create an entirely separate installation of Serendipity for use with the Home section?
Thanks in advance!
Chris