I don't know if I'm missing something, because I'm new in 2sxc Apps, but I can't find paging option in Blog settings (like it is in the News App).
Does Blog use paging? And if it does - can the number of posts per page be set (and where)?
Thank You all for your help.
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I noticed your question was downrated 2x, but don't take this personally, the people who did this probably didn't realize you're new to StackOverflow.
The blog app uses paging, but the setting for it isn't in the view - it's part of the query which feeds the items to the list view. It's just implemented differently - in the blog it's a number in the query, in the News it's a placeholder in the query, which gets the number from the current module.
BTW: since you're new I'll just explain that if this answered your question, best mark it as answered to help people who find this question in future.
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I'm sorry I do not know how to word that title better. I have tried searching google but my terminology isn't helping my results.
Let me explain the context. When you're on a news website or blog and you're on their homepage like: www.homepage.co.uk/ and then you click an article it will go somewhere like this: www.homepage.co.uk/2017/article/ how do they make the 2017 appear? because if you remove the /article/ from the url it takes you to an archive of all the links in that year? I don't understand, is there a process to this?
When I click a link in my website it goes to: www.website.co.uk/link
I want to be able to have that 2017/link/ in the url so they can find the archive of that year just like on their websites?
How do I do this?
I am sorry if I am not explaining this very well.
I understand changing my filenames to : "2017/article.html" might work but I do not believe that is the correct way of doing it?
Thanks a lot for your time and suggestions!
You're asking about a couple of things: one is the taxonomy of the site. Taxonomy, if you don't know, is the "shape" of or how your site is organized. News sites, for instance, are usually organized by date and perhaps topic (Health and Leisure, Politics, Entertainment, etc.). The other aspect of your question is regarding what you might call RESful "hacking" of URLs. One of the tenents of REST is that URLS (uri, to be accurate) are supposed to be hackable. A news site might have /2017/10/10 to display all articles for Oct 10. Maybe you remove the last "10", and get all the articles for October so far. If you are not using a site platform that does this for you, you will have to maintain that taxonomy yourself, and manually write all the links. Systems such as Drupal and Joomla, among others, will translate your taxonomy into automatically-maintained links. In editing a page on one of these platforms, you typically only refer to the system's internal name of the page (could be a shortened version of the article's title in the above example), and the underlying engine takes care of reconstructing the URL for you (in case the page moves, or its tags/taxonomy changes).
This is a big topic, and I encourage you to do some further reading:
http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/feature/Building-a-website-taxonomy-in-eight-steps
https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/organizing-content-with-taxonomies/organizing-content-with-taxonomies
So I have a form where a user can post a project. He fills the fields and submits so far. However what I would like is to use a tag system where instead of writing a string of skills needed for the project, they should be tags. Then implement a tag based search. Kind of like here on stackoverflow you can search questions based on tags. I'm not sure what to google or what kind of question I am looking for. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction?
There are numerous jQuery plugins that do this. For a comprehensive list of them, see this stackoverflow post. I personally like Tag-it!, which is probably the most popular one.
By "dynamic links", I mean a list of links that will constantly be updated.
To illustrate my question, I have a website that I am constantly writing new articles for. I currently have about 10 articles. If someone is to read article #5, there is a list of links to all 10 articles in the right panel of the page. As I update the site, and article #1 becomes out of date, I'd like to replace article #1 with article #11. Rather than updating the links within every article (so 10 times), is there a way to update the links once and have them all update simultaneously to every page?? Could I create an iframe for this??
Thanks for any and all help!
What's your goal? Do you want to learn to be a web developer? Or are you mostly concerned with getting your articles published?
If you want to be a web developer, I'd recommend steering clear of large CMS system like Wordpress or Drupal. Those are great products. But you want to learn the basics first. I think starting a PHP tutorial is the way to go.
If you just want to publish your articles, I'd recommend you find a nice place to create a blog. There are so many to choose from. It all depends on how much you want to spend.
Feel free to ask follow up questions. Web development sounds simple. But it's really a complex topic. I can't imagine what is must be like starting out these days with so many choices and competing technologies.
One way to do it would be to use Server-side includes. (Wikipedia) They work like this:
<!--#include file="some-content.html" -->
or
<!--#include virtual="some-folder/some-content.html" -->
The difference is file="" finds a file relative to the current page, whereas virtual="" finds it from the domain root. Either way, this method can use any type of regular text file as a source. The actual addition of the content is done by the server (hence the name) so its contents will be parsed as regular HTML and all CSS will apply to it as if the file were part of your page. I don't know about compatibility with different hosts, but if your web server supports it, this is probably the easiest way to go.
one of my clients (www.expertmanage.com) requires random ordering of frontpage articles. We are using Joomla 1.5. I have gone through primary order and category order options, but there is no way to show up articles in random order. Can this be achieved somehow by editing the query on front page blog layout controller ?
If you goto Joomla's extension website, you can find some that can help you. Try auto-frontpage for instance (here) or you can search the list of frontpage extentions. I'm sure you would find a solution to your problem (frontpage extensions)
I decided to start my blog recently. Anyway I put it on blogger.com and was looking at the widgets you can add. There are some 100k+ of them.
By the way, I tried to add the StackOverflow search widget and it complained it was broken.
Anyway, I'm after some suggestions on good programming related widgets worth adding.
Syntax Highlighter -- Support for pretty much every language you might wish to post snippets of.
A widget that allows access to documentation for countless APIs.
http://www.gotapi.com/widgets/index.html