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Re: Developing a NewsPaper with Textpattern
When I began using TXP, I tried all the different plugins and settled on Textile.
I knew bbcode so the transition was somewhat easier. After about 20 articles I got the hang of it and I find it to be the fastest way to enter formatted text.
Unless you’re creating a fancy article, there’s only a handful of codes you really need to learn.
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Re: Developing a NewsPaper with Textpattern
Everything is going well developing a Newspaper with Textpattern but a new Issue:
How to provide a WAP (WML) version of the last news?
My knowledge about WAP and WML is equal to zero! Where to start?
( while I’m writing this I found some info here: w3schools – WAP )
and what can we do with TXP and WAP?
Thx in advance!
Update: A good list of Tools:
Visual Tools for WAP
Last edited by duchamp (2006-04-23 00:30:29)
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Re: Developing a NewsPaper with Textpattern
duchamp, an even simpler method of doing the “urgent” message may be to use sticky articles for those and test for their existence on your homepage. I’ve used this for teaser boxes on a homepage so that the homepage owners can change around what their most important current topics are.
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Re: Developing a NewsPaper with Textpattern
jakob wrote:
duchamp, an even simpler method of doing the “urgent” message may be to use sticky articles for those and test for their existence on your homepage. I’ve used this for teaser boxes on a homepage so that the homepage owners can change around what their most important current topics are.
You’re right jakob, that’s a logical method!
It’s better than using an special category, ‘cause you can archive that “urgent” notice under your normal categories and make it appear as an special news just changing its state. Thx
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Re: Developing a NewsPaper with Textpattern
Another idea/question that is rounding my mind is if a “Desktop Publishing tool” (like Qumana or other Publishing tools ) could Help to the journalists to maintain the site updated … what do you think?
This people works mostly with MS Word to write their news and articles. Knowing this I started to look for the shortest and comfortable way to take that doc files to Textpattern … not sure yet! but maybe you can Help …
(Any other Desktop Publishing Tool that Works with Textpattern?)
Thx
PS: About the previous WAP question, I’m still learning and searching to know the way to have a WAP version taken from the articles published with TXP.
PS II: Ahora que sabés que con TXP podés hacerlo, ahora que acá encontraste el secreto sagrado, ahora … como siempre, vas a hacer todo al revés!
Last edited by duchamp (2006-05-26 19:58:56)
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#21 2006-09-16 04:56:38
- guitarman
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Re: Developing a NewsPaper with Textpattern
Hi duchamp,
I’m working on a newspaper site too. However, since there is no content on sundays, I’m using the chh_if_data and chh_custom_article plugins. The code I’m using is
<code>
<txp:chh_if_data>
<txp:chh_article_custom section=“brief” listform=“brief_excerpt” time=”-1 day, -0 days” />
<txp:else />
<txp:chh_article_custom section=“brief” listform=“brief_excerpt” time=”-2 days, -0 days” />
</txp:chh_if_data>
</code>
The downside to this is that I am now unable to access a particular days articles through
http://www.sitename.com/year/month/day
or
http://www.sitename.com/year/month/
as it could earlier.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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