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#1 2009-01-09 00:22:52
- jshan
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Suggestion needed for the following design approach
Hi,
TXP seems to be a very exciting CMS tool so I’m trying it out on one of my projects. As a new TXP adopter, though I’m trying to get up to speed as fast as I can, I’d appreciate any suggestion to the following design I’m trying to accomplish for the project site:
On the main/default homepage, I will have a very short Flash. Easy to incorprate into TXP?
After the Flash, I would like to have 5 boxes, each of each will display only the image of the latest article of 1 of the 5 categories. Below the image, the article’s short excerpt will be displayed along with the author name and publish time. That’s all I want to show with regards to article content on the homepage. Visitors will need to click the box to read the full article.
What is the easiest/cleanest way to achieve this?
Thanks,
Jay
Last edited by jshan (2009-01-09 00:28:24)
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#2 2009-01-09 11:27:35
- jelle
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Re: Suggestion needed for the following design approach
Hi Jshan,
That’s pretty easy with textpattern.
Get this plugin for embedding flash.
For the boxes create a custom form to call from the article tag that pulls up 1 article from each category.
Read about forms here
For your setup you’d do something like:
<txp:article_image/>
<txp:excerpt/>
<txp:author/>
<txp:posted/>
(and some styling ofcourse)
Last edited by jelle (2009-01-09 17:06:06)
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#3 2009-01-10 19:50:21
- jshan
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Re: Suggestion needed for the following design approach
Great! Will try it out. Thanks jelle! BTW, crisp design of your blog.
— jay
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#4 2009-01-11 10:43:39
- jelle
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Re: Suggestion needed for the following design approach
You’re welcome…good luck.
Last edited by jelle (2009-01-11 13:04:02)
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#5 2009-01-19 22:09:47
- jshan
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Re: Suggestion needed for the following design approach
jelle, I have a bit problem when installing. Since I’m using Textpattern, I uploaded expressinstall.swf to Content\Files. According to your instruction, I’m supposed to navigate to “Extensions → Kimili Flash Embed” and set the Express Install URL option to point to the URL of the expressinstall.swf. But where is the location of “Extensions”? There is no such tab under Admin, neither is it on any tabs under Content.
Greatly appreaciate your help!
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Re: Suggestion needed for the following design approach
The extensions tab shows up only by certain plugins when you have installed and activated them. Additionally, it doesn’t show when you are on the admin > plugin pane (so that one can still deactivate faulty plugins). So check:
- Plugin installed
- Plugin activated
- Not in plugins pane
I’m not familiar with the flash plugin (I just hard-coded into my template) so there may be another reason.
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