Newbie with many questions

Bhoney · 2005-12-14 08:51:06

Greetings :)

I created link categories and added my links, however they are not seperated by category, but rather all together.

I also can’t seem to figure out how to post images.

Any help would be most appreciate.

( I’ll come back later to scream about the skinning system.. lol )

andreas · 2005-12-14 14:58:07

I also can’t seem to figure out how to post images.

Have a look here

You might also want to look at the FAQ at large and at TextBook

And: if you want answers, make sure you post clear questions which is done best one at a time with a meaningful subject.

Apart from that: welcome to Textpattern! :-)

Bhoney · 2005-12-15 04:43:13

Thank you Andreas :)

Bhoney · 2005-12-15 22:56:44

Hmmmm… I still have not found anything to explain why my links are not seperated by category?????

:-)

thebombsite · 2005-12-15 23:18:25

Your link-lists won’t separate into categories automatically. If you use the <code><txp:linklist /></code> tag you will need to use it once for each category specifying that category in each tag. Have a look here.

Bhoney · 2005-12-16 06:40:59

Thanks you for your response :)

You know I did not come to the forum first, I actually did visit the Texpattern Wiki to learn my way around this software.However, it was quite confusing and continues to be so 4 days after I started reading it.

The above code is confusing… what do I do with it… where does it go?

Thanks :)

Last edited by Bhoney (2005-12-16 06:43:01)

thebombsite · 2005-12-16 16:44:06

You put the tag where you want the list to appear and the attributes go inside the tag a bit like an HTML tag. If this is for a sidebar you put it into your sidebar code which might be in your PAGE templates but as sidebars are used on several pages you could create a new sidebar FORM template and put all your sidebar code there. Then in your page templates you call the sidebar form using the “output_form” tag which you will find in the left-hand menu on the page template editing screen. That saves repeating the same code several times over.

Many WP users find TXP confusing at first. Because it is far more flexible than WP it is also less “structured” giving you more range to structure it YOUR way rather than the WP way. Give it a couple of weeks and you will wonder why you didn’t find it first. :)

Bhoney · 2005-12-16 21:55:39

Thanks thebombsite… I’m still confused lol, but think I’ll stick it out and try to get outta the WP way of thinking :)

thebombsite · 2005-12-17 01:58:18

Well we are always here to help, apart from the 5 minutes or so that I get to sleep. It helps if your questions are specific and if necessary you can post code here using the < code>< /code> tags (without the spaces).

zem · 2005-12-17 02:09:57

Also take a look at the FAQ, particularly this item, which briefly explains Textpattern’s main concepts.

ruminator · 2005-12-17 12:17:41

> I also can’t seem to figure out how to post images.

A tool I found to be very helpful for posting images is Dean’s image pop-up plug-in, see: dca_pop.

When I start off an entry with an image that has a larger format than I want in-line, I use code that looks like:

<br/>I then follow that code block with the text for the article. It puts a very nice pop-up image with a thumbnail in-line and has been rock solid since I started using TxP.

Of course, you need the <code>imgclass</code> defined in your style sheet. For left images, I use:

<code>.imgleft { float: left; margin-right: 10px;
}</code>

<br/>That makes a left-aligned image with text wrapping on the right side. The 10px seems to make a reasonably nice break between the image boundary and the text boundary.

Last edited by ruminator (2005-12-17 12:20:32)

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