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#1 2013-05-04 20:43:09
- roelof
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How would you do this in Textpattern
Hello,
A long time ago I made this site in Txp with very difficult scripts so I have looked at other solutions.
But I wonder how can I made my site (http://www.tamarawobben.nl) workable with Txp.
Where I have to find a solution for is that all articles are not even big so I have used a non fixed number of articles on a page. But that is not working.
So Im looking at other ideas ?
Roelof
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Re: How would you do this in Textpattern
Hi Roelof
Can you explain more please? what are you trying to do and where you found difficulties!
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#3 2013-05-05 07:59:26
- roelof
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Re: How would you do this in Textpattern
Hello,
What I try to achieve is a blog about the life of my daugther.
The difficulties are that some months have some big articles and some small articles.
So if I say 2 articles a page then some pages will be very long to read and some are almost empty.
Now I can use read more links but I think it’s makes the site ugly.
I hope my problem is clear now.
Roelof
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I guess what you are looking for is a script that counts the words and then decides on whether a page will have one, or two articles. This does not exist out of the box. I would think that this is not a good tactic though as the length of articles are random. What would happen if you have 3 short articles and then a very long one for example?
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#5 2013-05-05 13:05:39
- roelof
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Re: How would you do this in Textpattern
Hello,
At this moment I decided with a checkbox if a new page is needed.
So it can be that 3 short articles are one page and the big on another.
But this is not working well so im looking for alternatives.
Roelof
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#6 2013-05-05 14:31:44
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Re: How would you do this in Textpattern
Roelof, the main problem I see on your daughter’s website is not caused by shorter or longer pages, it’s that of readability: the articles there are completely unstructured, just a single paragraph, no white spaces, no subheadlines in longer articles.
The good news: that’s much easier solved than by a change from Wordpress back to Textpattern.
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#7 2013-05-05 15:36:52
- roelof
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Re: How would you do this in Textpattern
Oke,
Can you give a example how to solve this ?
And my site is not a wordpress site but a symphony cms made of xml and xslt.
Roelof
Edit 1:
Not a problem with big and small articles in a month ??
Look and compare these pages : http://www.tamarawobben.nl/dagboek/2005/09/1/
and http://www.tamarawobben.nl/dagboek/2005/09/10/
the last one has 3 articles and is even big as the first with one article.
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#8 2013-05-05 19:08:16
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Hi Roelof, what exactly makes you think it’s a problem that not all articles are equally long? As a visitor of your site, it doesn’t bother me at all. So what if one day, or one month, needs more scrolling than another? Did your visitors tell you they don’t like it? If not, why don’t you stop worrying about it.
What Uli said, about the lack of paragraphs, I can see in the source code that you do use line breaks. So it must be something in Symphony CMS that is not showing these in the HTML output. Textpattern does this by default, but I’m sure Symphony also must have a setting for that. I agree with Uli that an entire article without paragraphs or line breaks is a bit harder to read.
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#9 2013-05-05 19:45:34
- roelof
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Re: How would you do this in Textpattern
Hello Els,
It’s a feeling that I have. I never get respons from visitors.
So you think I can stick with one article a page. That will make my life a very much easier.
Regarding Symphony. Im thinking about leaving it because some plugins never get updated so I have to stick with a old version.
So Im looking for a alternative cms and for a better idea to make my site work.
Roelof
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#10 2013-05-05 20:38:58
- els
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roelof wrote:
It’s a feeling that I have. I never get respons from visitors.
So you think I can stick with one article a page. That will make my life a very much easier.
Yes, I really think so. Just look at other blogs, sometimes an article is just a couple of lines, and sometimes you’re reading for half an hour or longer. That’s just how it is, don’t worry about it.
Regarding Symphony. Im thinking about leaving it because some plugins never get updated so I have to stick with a old version.
So Im looking for a alternative cms and for a better idea to make my site work.
What you wanted to do (make all pages the same length) will be difficult to do in any CMS, I guess. If you can abandon that idea, I suppose you can use whichever CMS you want, including Textpattern. Just find one that allows for date based archives (I assume that every CMS can do that). Then the only thing you’d need to look for is does the CMS have a template that you like. If you like your current layout and want to keep it, make sure that it’s not hard to port it to the other CMS.
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#11 2013-05-07 16:08:59
- roelof
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Re: How would you do this in Textpattern
Hello Els.
Which plugin would you recommend for my date based archive.
Roelof
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roelof wrote:
Which plugin would you recommend for my date based archive.
Roelof, you don’t need a plugin. Check out this post
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