Various Plugin Questions

[ITS]

Hello,

I have some small questions regarding some plugins.

1.) I use Staticpages. I want to display "normal" links in the sidebar staticpages menu as well, is this possible? If not, is there a plugin just
displaying llinks in a navigation style?

2.) Where can I edit the "entry written" date-format shown in an entry?

3.) I use an additional navigation in my theme andreas 09 (http://www.bb0.de). I managed to edit the other navigation items, but I'm unable to find out how to edit the first (Homepage).
3b.) When I click a navigation point, the link works, but the menuitem is not selected

4.) The auto backup feature is working sometimes, sometimes not, are there any known issues/requirements?

5.) The format options are not available when creating an entry with opera 9. is there any plugin for opera?

thank you,
ITS

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

1.) I use Staticpages. I want to display "normal" links in the sidebar staticpages menu as well, is this possible? If not, is there a plugin just
displaying llinks in a navigation style?

No, that sidebar plugin does not allow for customized content easily. You would have to edit the serendipity_plugin_staticpage.php file directly to add anything to it.

You can try to use the "linklist" plugin, or even put manual HTML into a HTML nugget plugin.

2.) Where can I edit the "entry written" date-format shown in an entry?

You can edit your entries.tpl file and search for "DATE_FORMAT" or "DATEFORMAT". That refers to a constant in the language files, but you can replace it directory to use %Y-%m-%d etc. modifiers, like:

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{$dategroup.date|@formatTime:"%Y-%m-%d"}

3.) I use an additional navigation in my theme andreas 09 (http://www.bb0.de). I managed to edit the other navigation items, but I'm unable to find out how to edit the first (Homepage).

You can do that by editing the index.tpl file:

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<a class="current" href="{$serendipityBaseURL}">{$CONST.HOMEPAGE}</a>

3b.) When I click a navigation point, the link works, but the menuitem is not selected

That's because there is no "active link" detection in the index.tpl file.
It's a bit tricky to do that, maybe you can find a theme which does that. Or post that question in the 'Themes' section of this forum.

4.) The auto backup feature is working sometimes, sometimes not, are there any known issues/requirements?

Sadly the backup plugin takes up a lot of CPU cycles, RAM and HDD space. Depending on the load of your server it might not complete. Sadly I didn't develop this plugin (because I always thought it wouldn't work), so I can't offer help, I'm sorry.

5.) The format options are not available when creating an entry with opera 9. is there any plugin for opera?

Are you using an WYSIWYG editor? If so, are you using the default WYSIWYG editor, or a plugin?

Sadly I don't use Opera, so I don't know which editors it supports. I know that Opera had been lacking JavaScript capabilities that were required for WYSIWYG up to at least Opera 8.

Best regards,
Garvin

[ITS]

Hello,

thank you! The dateformat option works now, thank you!
I'll check the other stuff later.

Yes, I'm using the default WYSIWYG editor and the newest opera. Are there other editors with the same capability?

thank you,
ITS

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Yes, I'm using the default WYSIWYG editor and the newest opera. Are there other editors with the same capability?

Hm, that's bad. I thought if you were using a different one, that might be the trouble.

The other external WYSIWYG editors (available via spartacus) all have their strengths, but none of them has the tight integration with the serendipity media manager like the default one.

Best regards,
Garvin