Adding an "About This Blog" section...
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:47 pm
This may have been covered before, but I poked around a bit and couldn't find anything. Admittedly, my search-fu ain't great. My apologies if this is covered ground.
I am more or less a newbie to things like stylesheets and PHP. BUT! I'm a Unix sysadmin who has done some programming in her day, so I'm not completely lost.
Anyhoo, here's my question.
One of the things that chaps my keister about blogs is when I come across a blog and there's no reference to who's writing it, or what it's about. Whenever I come to a new site, the first thing I look for is the "About this" section, if there is one. If there's not, I seldom read much further. SO! I'd like to add such a thing to the sidebar of my Serendipity blog.
I'm guessing that I'd have to write a plugin. It would prolly look a lot like the HTML Nugget plugin that's already available. I could just copy it, essentially, and then in my nugget 'o HTML, I'd have a couple of links to the bios of the site or whatever.
The tricky thing for me will be the HTML of those linked biographical pages. Essentially, I'd want them to look EXACTLY like my Serendipity blog, with all the sidebars 'n everything. The only difference would be that they'd have some of my own HTML in the middle of them, instead of code that produces the entries.
How would I set something like that up? What file would I have to copy to create a bio page that keeps the Serendip look and feel, but has bios in the middle instead of the blog entries?
Any pointers would be appreciated. Hope this makes sense.
PS: Serendipity RAWKS! \m/
I am more or less a newbie to things like stylesheets and PHP. BUT! I'm a Unix sysadmin who has done some programming in her day, so I'm not completely lost.
Anyhoo, here's my question.
One of the things that chaps my keister about blogs is when I come across a blog and there's no reference to who's writing it, or what it's about. Whenever I come to a new site, the first thing I look for is the "About this" section, if there is one. If there's not, I seldom read much further. SO! I'd like to add such a thing to the sidebar of my Serendipity blog.
I'm guessing that I'd have to write a plugin. It would prolly look a lot like the HTML Nugget plugin that's already available. I could just copy it, essentially, and then in my nugget 'o HTML, I'd have a couple of links to the bios of the site or whatever.
The tricky thing for me will be the HTML of those linked biographical pages. Essentially, I'd want them to look EXACTLY like my Serendipity blog, with all the sidebars 'n everything. The only difference would be that they'd have some of my own HTML in the middle of them, instead of code that produces the entries.
How would I set something like that up? What file would I have to copy to create a bio page that keeps the Serendip look and feel, but has bios in the middle instead of the blog entries?
Any pointers would be appreciated. Hope this makes sense.
PS: Serendipity RAWKS! \m/