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)
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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.
welcome to StackOverflow :)
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.
I am having a hard time finding an example of what I am looking for. I am trying to show recent changes on one of my category pages using {{special:recentchanges/day=5,limit=10}}. I am part of a busy Wiki and am trying to limit the search to just a particular category or my watchlist.
I can see from the "Help:recent changes" page on the main MediaWiki website that it lists "namespace" as an integer but I cant seem to get it to work narrowing down to just a specific category in conjunction with the above line.
Long story short: I would just like to show recent changes to a specific category or my watchlist on my main category page. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Tgr's answer is correct, copying here: Namespaces are unrelated to categories. You cannot filter Special:RecentChanges by category. You can use Special:RecentChangesLinked instead which is similar.
For more, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tracking_changes
I have recently finished creating a website without using Wordpress, yet web filters like Fortinet/Fortiguard or Qustodio declare that my site's category is "unrated", therefore not letting the site to be visible.
Is there a possibility or method to assign a category to the site through HTML coding, or is it obligatory to use Wordpress so the site can be recognized as not-unrated category-wise?
Apologies for the redundances, and thanks beforehand.
Is there a possibility or method to assign a cathegory to the site through HTML coding
No.
or is it obligatory to use Wordpress so the site can be recognized as not-unrated cathegory-wise?
That won't work either.
The category is determined by the filter's own rules, not by the website.
Those sites determine your website's category by looking at the content and the people who visit it. These actually take time. Be patient.
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.
I have been searching for a few days and it is hard to find specifics for wikimedia.
Does anyone know of an extension, or report that will show internal links to nonexistent pages?
We host a wiki where we have users that have crated some excellent content, but to have to go through each page to find the links to pages that have not been created yet is next to impossible due to the amount of content.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated...
Go to your Special:SpecialPages list and you will find
Wanted categories
Wanted files
Wanted pages
Wanted templates
which are (more or less) dynamic lists of all redlinks in your wiki.
If you want to only see a list of dead links for a specific page or a group of pages, you can use DynamicPageList to run a linksfrom query with openreferences = yes. Go here for more info: http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=DPL:Manual_-_DPL_parameters:_Criteria_for_page_selection#linksfrom