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Paged Articles
Is their anyway to have paged articles? So say you had a massive article, you could spread it out over a couple of pages to make it more digestible
~ Cameron
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There is this plugin, but not sure if it will work with latest TXP versions.
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I hate to promote vaporware, but since you ask, I am working on a plugin for exactly this. Will allow articles to have hierarchical structure (sections, subsections, etc.). By all means use the plugin jstubbs mentions if that does what you need, but keep an eye on the plugin forum. If all goes well I might be able to release this in a week or two.
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jsoo wrote:
I hate to promote vaporware, but since you ask, I am working on a plugin for exactly this. Will allow articles to have hierarchical structure (sections, subsections, etc.). By all means use the plugin jstubbs mentions if that does what you need, but keep an eye on the plugin forum. If all goes well I might be able to release this in a week or two.
You know the second I saw the plugin above I thought about sub-sections! BUT! I don’t think articles should be used as sub-sections, because an article is a block of content, where as a section is a block of a website, and may have 1-1million articles, yeh?
I dunno I can’t say too much until I see what you produce, but keep it pagination of an article, and not as a sub-section system, cos articles are not sections, and it would make the whole TXP box model ugly :P
Look forward to it all the same, one thing I dislike about the above plugin is the fact I have to go and and change the body tag etc, it would be nice to see something that works with the standard tags, and you can add the pagination with a new tag etc. x
~ Cameron
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It’s not a replacement for Txp sections. I mean an article with a structure such as:
- Introduction
- Foo
- Foo bar
- Foo baz
- Boo
- Boo far
- Boo faz
- Boo fat
- Appendix
So I do mean a single block of content.
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jsoo, I guess you mean something like cbs_article_index with additional nesting married with etz_pagination?
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I also have an (as-yet-unreleased) pagination plugin that auto-paginates long articles based on rules you give it, so there’s no need for people to insert markup at break points — unless you specifically want to do that of course.
I’ve been sitting on the plugin for about a year and had all-but forgotten about it; I was waiting until I had time/inclination to update smd_pullquote so it took advantage of quoting only parts of the article that were currently “visible” (and to tidy that plugin up, because it’s a mess). If I get a chance I’ll run some final tests on the pagination plugin and release it at some point. Thanks for reminding me about it!
Last edited by Bloke (2009-02-01 10:31:28)
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This is awesome, proper excited to see to try some of these new plugins, paged articles would really put a smile on my face, imagine the power of control you would have other your content :P
Keep it up guys
~ Cameron
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Yep, looking forward to seeing Jsoo and Steph’s plugins too…
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jakob wrote:
jsoo, I guess you mean something like cbs_article_index with additional nesting married with etz_pagination?
Not really, no. My (still vaporware!) plugin is for tying separate Txp articles into a single unit, so that they behave more or less like a single Txp article. The tying together is done in a custom field.
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Bloke wrote:
I also have an (as-yet-unreleased) pagination plugin that auto-paginates long articles based on rules you give it, so there’s no need for people to insert markup at break points — unless you specifically want to do that of course.
I’ve been sitting on the plugin for about a year and had all-but forgotten about it; I was waiting until I had time/inclination to update smd_pullquote so it took advantage of quoting only parts of the article that were currently “visible” (and to tidy that plugin up, because it’s a mess). If I get a chance I’ll run some final tests on the pagination plugin and release it at some point. Thanks for reminding me about it!
This sounds great, It would be awesome to be able to choose when the page breaks, but use the the default txp tags for articles, look forward to seeing it :)
Last edited by driz (2009-02-01 21:12:33)
~ Cameron
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#12 2009-02-02 11:05:08
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Re: Paged Articles
Here looking forward these too! Please, make them MLP-capable…
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