Textpattern CMS support forum
You are not logged in. Register | Login | Help
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
[wiki] Page title changes to existing Images (admin-side) page
There’s a new tag, <txp:images />. In order to document this tag in the wiki, we had to make a decision to either rename the Images panel page (currently holding the title “Images”), or create a new tag page with a title that breaks the existing convention of tag pages. Considering the Tag Reference pages are popular, it made sense to change the title of the admin Images page and add the new images page for the new tag.
It takes a specific path of steps to get it ironed out in MediaWiki, but we got it. We now have the following pages: images (the new tag page) and Images (panel) (the newly titled admin-side page).
To make this work, we had to differentiate between the two images pages. I added “(panel)” to the Images panel page title, using parentheses, to help indicate it’s an exception to the rule, not the rule. Please don’t go changing all the site-admin page titles to make them consistent. It’s not necessary.
There are, likely, some links broken that need updated. If you find them, please fix them. For example, if you see “yadda yadda in the Images tab”, please change it to either:
- Images (panel) (using link
[[Images (panel)]]) - Images panel (using a custom wiki text label link
[[Images (panel)|Images]])
You typically do not want to have a common link label that goes to two different locations (in this case the new tag page and the Images admin-side panel), so the second option is less desireable, but if the surrounding text makes the context clear, it’s doable.
Last edited by Destry (2010-11-05 20:59:02)
Offline
Re: [wiki] Page title changes to existing Images (admin-side) page
I just discovered this is not the first time we’ve had to do this. Looks like Comments (admin-side) was a similar work-around in 2009: http://textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Comments_(admin-side).
(Hmm. Those wiki URLs links with the parentheses don’t work well with Textile here in the forum.)
So we have two panel pages that have annotated titles to accomodate pages for tag names:
- Images (panel)
- Comments (admin-side)
Should we fix them so their consistent or leave them be?
Offline
#3 2010-11-06 00:25:05
- uli
- Moderator
- From: Cologne
- Registered: 2006-08-15
- Posts: 4,315
Re: [wiki] Page title changes to existing Images (admin-side) page
Destry wrote:
- Images (panel)
- Comments (admin-side)
Should we fix them so their consistent or leave them be?
I’d make them consistent. And “panel” is more significant I think.
Those wiki URLs links with the parentheses don’t work well with Textile here in the forum.
Yup. Els discovered that when we wanted to link from the English tag pages to their foreign equivalents, they’re all ending in _(xy). Is there something that can be done about that?
In bad weather I never leave home without wet_plugout, smd_where_used and adi_form_links
Offline
#4 2010-11-06 01:13:28
- els
- Moderator
- From: The Netherlands
- Registered: 2004-06-06
- Posts: 7,458
Re: [wiki] Page title changes to existing Images (admin-side) page
uli wrote:
Is there something that can be done about that?
Sort of: Images ;)
(Blue links are hurting my eyes BTW…)
Last edited by els (2010-11-06 01:15:17)
Offline
Re: [wiki] Page title changes to existing Images (admin-side) page
uli wrote:
Yup. Els discovered that when we wanted to link from the English tag pages to their foreign equivalents, they’re all ending in
_(xy). Is there something that can be done about that?
I’m guessing people are doing it that way because certain tag names don’t have a different translation in certain languages? In that case, I would have suggested using a simpler convention of an underscore. For example, article_fr, article_es, etc. I wouldn’t worry about it now, though we probably should update the instructions for translating pages to help ensure a standard is used in those cases. Now would be the time to change, if at all.
Els wrote:
(Blue links are hurting my eyes BTW…)
I’m not a big fan either, honestly, but other people aren’t happy with the brown links and the blue is the style and color for links in the new Txp design (if that’s the standard to go by). I haven’t finished with including some more of the presentation, which will help temper the overall effect, but maybe making text larger would help the visibility on links (and maybe a touch darker wouldn’t send anyone to jail).
So, how did you make that “Images (panel)” link in here?
Offline
Re: [wiki] Page title changes to existing Images (admin-side) page
Destry wrote:
So, how did you make that “Images (panel)” link in here?
Els used URL shortening service (bit.ly). It’s not necessity, just one of the methods to get over the fence. Textile can be used to link anything; the “special chars” just have to be encoded using percent sign hex things (%HEX).
For example http://textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Images_(panel) becomes http://textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Images_%28panel%29.
Let’s test it out: http://textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Images_
Last edited by Gocom (2010-11-06 14:06:45)
Offline
#7 2010-11-06 15:47:41
- els
- Moderator
- From: The Netherlands
- Registered: 2004-06-06
- Posts: 7,458
Re: [wiki] Page title changes to existing Images (admin-side) page
Gocom wrote:
the “special chars” just have to be encoded using percent sign hex things (
%HEX).
So we would have to do that manually?? In that case I prefer my ‘method’ ;)
Offline