Updating Textpattern and Solving a Rewrite Problem
Posted: March 29, 2017 Filed under: .htaccess, Computers, rewritebase, Textpattern Leave a comment »Just updated my CMS (Textpattern) to the latest version (6.4.2). I had to because the University just updated the PHP on the server and this broke the old install.
Everything worked great except for one thing: I could get it to work if I put the full URL to the index page in (i.e. http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel. Read the rest of this entry »
How to write to text pattern
Posted: September 14, 2016 Filed under: Computers, Textpattern Leave a comment »This document is a quick primer on using TextPattern, the Content Management System that controls my web pages. It covers the basics only.
Contents
Log in
After I have made you an account, you should receive login information in an email. Read the rest of this entry »
Code for table of contents in text pattern
Posted: November 1, 2014 Filed under: Computers, Textpattern | Tags: Computers, structure, table of contents, text pattern Leave a comment »Use the following to put in a table of contents in a text pattern page.
<div id="TOC">
<txp:soo_toc label="Contents" labeltag="h3"/>
</div>
The code will build a TOC for every header that has an IDREF. An example would look like this: h3(#thisIsTheID).
tags: computers, structure, table of contents, text pattern
How to do a table of contents in text pattern
Posted: February 19, 2014 Filed under: Computers, Textpattern | Tags: Computers, table of contents, Textpattern, Tips 1 Comment »My teaching pages are served out using Textpattern, a relatively light CMS that uses textile wiki-like markup.
Because adding an excerpt by hand wrecks the syndication of this site through Wordpress to my other blog, I don’t usually add a text summary. Instead, I do something similar to the Wikipedia or Wordpress: I begin articles with an abstract like first paragraph, then include a table of contents, then have the rest of the body.
I used to make up these tables of content by hand, cursing all the time that Textile wasn’t XML. Then I discovered soo_toc, a Textpattern plugin that builds tables of contents dynamically. Joy!
Of course, now I need to remember to add the template that calls the TOC to each page (as I type this, I wonder if there might not be a simple variable I could develop that does this, but that’s for later). Read the rest of this entry »
Should I keep this blog? Should I retweet yours? Scholarly responsibility and new publication models
Posted: August 24, 2012 Filed under: Applications, Digital Humanities, Essays, General, Research, Scholarly publishing, Textpattern, Wordpress | Tags: blogs, Ernesto Priego, instititonal repository, Matt Schneider, retweeting, Twitter Leave a comment »I’ve been engaged with on-line scholarly publication for almost two decades. For a while in the middle of the first decade of this century in fact, my most popular and most often cited publication was a 1998 webpage describing my plans for an electronic edition of the Old English poem Caedmon’s Hymn Read the rest of this entry »
Testing if a list is empty in textpattern
Posted: June 14, 2012 Filed under: Applications, Technical Notes, Textpattern | Tags: Computers, conditional statements 1 Comment »Let’s say you have a section on a webpage like the “current courses” section in the right menu bar my teaching webspace.
This draws its list from articles in the section “teaching” that have “current_interest” as a category.
The problem comes between semesters while I am preparing my syllabi. If no course has a category “current_interest” you end up with a header and no content.
What you need is something that checks whether there is content to display and then presents different material based on the outcome of that check. You might delete the section entirely, or, as I have done, display a placeholder message. Read the rest of this entry »
Textpattern
Posted: November 19, 2006 Filed under: Applications, Technical Notes, Textpattern Leave a comment »My new (2006-) version of this site is built using Textpattern. This is an open source Content Management System (CMS)—in other words, software that allows one to organise material in a website.
