one might assume that this would be quite a common question, but I couldn't find any helpful answers yet, so I'll ask. I have to add that I find the whole structure of mediawiki and also their help pages very confusing.
I'm not expecting an exact answer, I'll also be grateful for resources that will help me understand just how mediawiki is structured.
OK, so:
I want to set up a Wiki for personal uses, and I'm trying to get the sidebar customized to my needs, especially I want to have the section headings (that would be level 2 to, say, 4 headings) of the page that is currently viewed displayed in the sidebar (as anchors, I guess).
In other words, have the table of contents not on the top of the body / content part, but on the left hand side in the sidebar.
I have somewhat edited MediaWiki:Sidebar and could get rid of some stuff that I don't really need, but I just can't find a way to get a table of contents there.
Do I need an extension or is this possible with MWs standard functions?
I've seen this, but I would prefer not to edit the html or js myself and rather just edit MediaWiki:Sidebar if that is possible at all.
Thanks for any answers.
There isn't a build in way to do that. I don't know any extension, which actually provides such a feature. But there is a JavaScript, written by a MediaWiki developer, which does, I assume, what you're looking for:
https://github.com/prtksxna/persistent-toc
It will show all ToC levels at the left side, if the first visible area of the page goes out of the viewport (and the top ToC box isn't visible anymore). It would maybe not a big deal to limit the ToC to level 2-4. You could install this script via your MediaWiki:Common.js, your user specific js (like I did for WMF [projects][1] or you create a new extension, which adds the script and the css to your page.
[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Florianschmidtwelzow/global.js projects
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I've never used WordPress.org before. I'm wondering if I can convert this html website that I have to wordpress exactly the same?
https://reporting.pacificamerican.org/pas/
And if this website is a wordpress site, does it means that I don't have to go into the codes if I want to update my content? Because right now with html site it takes more time to update all the contents.
Thank you.
Yes, you can, but looking at the content I wouldn't say it looks like a great idea. Mostly because of how static the current content seems to be.
Pros:
It looks like you are about to add a blog-page. WordPress does make such re-occuring content easy.
It looks like you have repeated the menu on every page. (If you change the menu on one page, then you have to makes changes to all pages as well?). WordPress would help with that and let you use one menu everywhere. But there are also tons of easier methods to accomplish the same thing without WordPress. (For example <?php include 'menu.php';?> using PHP).
Cons:
The "multiple sub-pages in one page" that you are using doesn't play naturally with WordPress. Absolutely possible yes, perhaps not even difficult, but not out-of-the-box for sure.
The time it would take to edit pages would likely not change as drastic as you hope. I believe that the current content looks so static that anyone with a bit HTML/CSS knowledge would rather want to edit those static html files over having to click around in the WordPress admin interface.
The scroll-spy, editing tables and things like the yearly admissions does not come naturally either. I can think of a few dozen ways to solve such things with WordPress, but if you are going to do this work yourself, then the WordPress-conversion will take some effort and the results will not always be as pretty as you might imagine.
You'll definitely take a performance hit over using only static html. (But that is true for any CMS/framework)
My suggestion would be to first look at your current workflow. Perhaps look at an IDE that can upload with a click or on save, have history so you can back up when things break, and predefined snippets that make static content changes easy, (and of course code syntax highlighting!).
What tools are you using now?
Also remember that you are asking on a coding-site. Not many here would opt to use the WordPress editor over simply editing html-files. In fact, I dare to say many here carries a deep grudge after having to work around some specific quirks in the WP editor (aka tinyMCE).
Sure, you could replicate the layouts.
Sure, your content would be editable with just a form.
It would take a lot of effort, but certainly doable.
I have a simple html/css-only static website on which I would like to add a blog. Comments and RSS aren't necessary.
Now, how do I do that, without having to write all my entries in pure html?
My website consists of a vertical menu and an area to the right of it, where all the content goes on each page. I would like a blog inside that area on the blog page, so a blog on a separate page with its own layout is not what I'm looking for.
Googling this doesn't really help me much since the majority of the hits are on sites offering blog services.
Thanks in advance, I hope I'm not being too difficult. Please leave some feedback on my question if you think there are things I should have tried out before asking.
If i understand what you want the answer is that ist is not possible in pure html and css. With only Html and css you can not make a blog (if you dont want to edit the source everytime you write an entry and have to make a new file for each entry and so on).
You need some code (php or so) that is able to store and load the entrys into your site.
Html and css are not meant to make things working. With Html you define the elements so that they are structed and then with css you "style" your work. But for the task of a blog (i think you want an editor for the text on the site, the ability to edit, delete, more than one site and so on) you need something like php or aps.net that is able to "interact".
I have made a couple of simple Joomla websites before. Those are using a custom template made by myself. They are easy websites as they have a simple linear menu, all pages have the same layout, just some articles are changing between pages.
But in my new project, I have a ready html website that I have to convert to Joomla. The problem is, there is no one repeating menu and there is no consistent layout. To simplify a bit: there are 10 pages and they all have different layouts. Between pages background changes, menu position changes, menu content changes, content box positions change, everything changes. This means I'm not able to do this site as I've done before, using one template index.php which simply contained my repeating page structure.
I am dreaming of a way to simply change ready_page1.html to ready_page1.php, adding some modules inside the php (which are then available for online editing, which is the reason switching to Joomla). I would do this to each page. The custom menus inside each page I would "manually" point to the according php files instead of the old html files. Is this method possible somehow? I couldn't figure out how to do this.
I don't care loosing lots of Joomla basic functionality due to this crude method, I just want the simplest way to do this.
In the end, I just want the exact same website I already have on html, but I want some chosen rectangular areas in the html pages to be editable Joomla modules. The modules would have the pen icon for editing. That's it, no other functionality is necessary.
Sounds like the site you are converting is a usability nightmare. Consistency is part of giving the user a positive experience. That said, if you have to make it exactly the same, then the easiest way is to do it the right way to begin with.
First, you need to learn about page class suffixes. You can add those to a menu item so that you can control the CSS on a per page basis. This will allow you to change backgrounds and other elements on each page.
Documentation - http://docs.joomla.org/Page_Class_Suffix
Next, you will need to make a template so that each of the module positions is collapsible. If you plan out the positions, you should be able to use a single index.php for the entire site. We have a custom template that we use for every site we do and it rarely needs to be touched because all of the positions we would possibly want to use are already there, they just don't get used until a module is put in the position.
Documentation - http://docs.joomla.org/Collapsing_columns
You will also want to make sure you understand menu assignments. You should be able to assign the modules to the pages as needed to create the layout you want for each page. If you are using 2.5.x, then you can probably get by with the built in menu assignment features. If you are using 1.5.x then (you really should upgrade) you will probably want to use Advanced Module Manager as it makes menu assignments much easier and more flexible.
Documentation - http://docs.joomla.org/Help15:Screen.modules.edit.15#Menu_Assignment
Once you get a good grasp of how Joomla templates work and how they are supposed to be used you will find that you can basically do anything you want within the framework so you don't lose any functionality.
build your website and create those 10 pages (contents, heirarcy, and so on..).
then create your templates based on those html files. this is where you adapt the html into a joomla template. after this step, you should end up with at most 10 templates depending on your styles (crude but quick)
as far as i know and from the documentation, Joomla 1.7 supports "template per page" (see the screenshot). you can pick out which style will be applied to which item. it even applies to subpages. another documentation here
Is there any other way to access one and the same menu without re-adding the code for it in each "page"?
I mean a menu looks exactly the same, no matter which part of the site you´re in.
So there should be a way to have that menu attached to every page on the site without adding the code for every page you create?
Which language you want to use for your site development?
There are lot of frameworks available for each language.
For example struts with tiles in java.
In tiles concept you will be defining some base layouts. which will specify header here sidebar here etc.
Then on next pages you can simply extend your new page into your base layout. There even if you are not specifying any content specifically, it will take previously defined one by default.
For example refer the struts tiles example link.
In jsp there is an option to add a page within an another page. Key word is
<%# include file='menu.jsp'%>
here menu.jsp is mu menu bar, which I am calling to a location in my page. So hat it it will appear in the place where I specified. If you are not comfortable with tiles concept, you can use this method for adding menu into your pages with out repeating entire codes in all pages.
There are a good number of ways to do this, and as far as I am concerned, they all use PHP or something similar to generate the HTML menu code on each individual page.
The browser must have all the content or it will not display a particular part. One can either hard code something like a menu into every html page or they could create something more of a php site which generates the html and serves it to the browser.
Other the writing the php yourself, off the shelf solutions will (often) allow you to do this. Examples would be shopping carts, as well as content management systems (CMS).
I am currently revamping my own website, however, I have tried dotclear and chyrp, both are very good.
However, after many attempts trying to make the bog appear only in a table, I am giving up.
My aim is to have a blog inside of a table as shown in the image
http://i55.tinypic.com/2rfbtrn.jpg
Does anyone know how I can achieve that or know any other easier way or even another blog engine that allows me to do that?
Thank you.
Regads.
Of course, I don’t have the technical details of your web application, but one way would be to place your blog inside an IFRAME (either instead of a table, or place the IFRAME inside the table).
If you want to do thing properly (not using an iframe), it is not possible at all. The reason is that a CMS generate a complete page, with a header and internal link.
My suggestion is to do it the other way: adapt the CMS to display a menu on the left and a title above.
In dotclear, this can be done easily by doing a template. Even better: your goal might be achievable by using some dotclear theme and some extensions like "simplemenu".