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Re: [wiki] What are the 10 most frequently needed developments in a Txp site?
So here are the ten things I usually do in a new Textpattern site (sorry, no particular order):
- Set up categories for articles, images, links
- Remove sections unwanted and set up sections as needed
- Add tagging for articles
- Customize RSS feed with tags and copyright
- Change the theme/look and feel of the front end
- improve performance by caching (static css files and aks_cache or aks_header)
- Use Google CDN to deliver jQuery and other libraries if used
- Improve the write tab to ease content creation (insert images and links while working on an article)
- Integrate Piwik to keep track of user stats
- Try and get all customizable parts of the front end into variables (using adi_variables)
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Re: [wiki] What are the 10 most frequently needed developments in a Txp site?
Great stuff, guys. Thanks!
The admin-side UI tasks (like prefs, creating categories, associating pages/styles to Sections, etc.) will fit in nicely with the “workflow” idea I have for admin-side docs (see discussion here), so if stuff like that doesn’t get covered in a tutorial, it will certainly be addressed elsewhere.
Again, there are many contexts to user documentation. :)
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#33 2011-07-30 07:29:32
- net-carver
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Re: [wiki] What are the 10 most frequently needed developments in a Txp site?
Destry
This addresses some of the tasks listed here about content reset / automatic plugin installation / preferred settings on new sites.
For example, gaekwad wrote…
iii) delete default article comment, then default article, article section, article categories, default image, default image categories, default links, default link categories, all deletable forms and essentially strip it down to the framework
…and Dragondz wrote…
A reset button of the install (erase dummy information: comments, articles, category, …) can save me 10mn in each install
Whilst michaelkpate wrote…
- Go to Admin | Diagnostics and check the error messages
- Delete the setup folder
- Go to Admin | Preferences and…
- Set the timezone
- Set the production status
- Set the Permanent Link Mode
- Set Automatically append comments to articles? to No
- Set Present comments as a numbered list? to No
…and…
Go to Admin | Plugins and…
- Install gbp_permanent_links
- Install rvm_css
- Install smd_if
Most of which can now be done automatically with a plugin — all, in fact, if the filesystem permissions allow deletion of the setup folder by a script.
Last edited by net-carver (2011-08-01 17:07:59)
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