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Art Direction Sections
I am brainstorming a new format in which every month the style changes. The posts from that month all get archived together. Like a magazine!
I know of one plugin that let’s you pick a style per post or per section (cant remember what it is off-hand), but my main concern is flooding the Section tab with months.
Also at some point I’m going to have to make a menu that has an archive of all these sections.
So are sections the route to go here?
Last edited by mrtunes (2010-12-11 03:33:23)
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Re: Art Direction Sections
It really depends on how radical the style change is.
If it’s a completely different look from header to footer then sections is probably the easiest way to go.
One extra section a month isn’t too bad … it is quite a logical way to organise a monthly magazine.
If you really don’t like Sections you could pass a url var url?month_var=july2008 from your site navigation
then using adi_gps and Stef’s smd_multi_choice to display the right style for that month.
Last edited by geoff777 (2010-12-11 13:22:46)
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Re: Art Direction Sections
mrtunes wrote:
I know of one plugin that let’s you pick a style per post or per section (cant remember what it is off-hand),
I have one such plugin.
but my main concern is flooding the Section tab with months.
I’d want to avoid that. I’d rather take advantage of the fact that Txp has a native way of grouping articles by month. Even though Txp is rather lacking in core tags for dealing with dates.
I’m assuming the main thing you want to change from month to month is the CSS. If you want structural differences sections would be the better bet, because sections and templates are tightly coupled.
Code is topiary
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thank you, there are some good ideas here. i am mulling about on this one for a bit.
yes soo_required files was the one i was thinking of.
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believe it or not i am still chipping away at this idea. on a first build-out, i found that sections aren’t the best out of the box because if i want to make a menu listing sorting them by month, i don’t think that can be done just found this. articles might be better.
Last edited by mrtunes (2011-09-19 19:25:15)
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