Start Page NOT as set!

[Lottozentrale]

Forgive me if I am asking a question already answered somewhere - I DID look but didn't find anything.

Here is the thing:

I got a couple of static pages in our serendepity only website
I got one Category-Entry "News" (which is the blog-style content)

I want a certain page of the static pages to be displayed upon entering www.Lottozentrale.com
I did set all static pages: "Make this page the frontpage of Serendipity" to "NO"
I did set ONE of these static pages at: "Make this page the frontpage of Serendipity" to "YES"

....but it still shows the Page with the "News"-Entries as frontpage for the site.

Any hints on how I can change that??


Ah, ja, a second question while I am at it:
I have a nifty little "Social Bookmark Script" (Java Script) which I actually wanted to place in the side bar. Albeit: there is only the "HTML-Plugin" available - which does not show properly when I paste the script into the html-view version of the editor.
I now did slam it into the index.tpl which works (almost) just as find - but is there any plugin one could use for inserting java-script with?

Thanks @ all!

(Answers in German are welcome as well)

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Maybe you're using the "Start Category" event plugin, which overrides your startpage.

Ah, ja, a second question while I am at it:
I have a nifty little "Social Bookmark Script" (Java Script) which I actually wanted to place in the side bar. Albeit: there is only the "HTML-Plugin" available - which does not show properly when I paste the script into the html-view version of the editor.
I now did slam it into the index.tpl which works (almost) just as find - but is there any plugin one could use for inserting java-script with?

You must temporarily disable the WYSIWYG editor to paste javascript, or switch WYSIYG-Editor to HTML sourcecode view.

HTH,
GArvin

[Don Chambers]

I have experienced the same as you - setting a static page as start page, yet it did not work. Unfortunately, I cannot recall what I may have done to fix it. What plugins come before the static page plugin in the list of event plugins?

Regarding js in a nugget, it should work just fine. Just make sure the option "Perform Markup Transformations" is set to "no". Also, the HTML Nugget plugin is "stackable", meaning you can install multiple copies of it, each for a different purpose.

[Lottozentrale]

Cool! Thanks! Will take off to explore what I just learned and will return to report!


Another question in the meantime maybe?

Why does:
http://www.lottozentrale.com/feeds/index.rss2
return the message:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

BRB

[Lottozentrale]

Maybe you're using the "Start Category" event plugin, which overrides your startpage.

Hmm, nope, doesnt look like it. Here is a complete list of my installed event plugins:

Markup: Serendipity
Extended properties for entries
Markup: Emoticate
Markup: NL2BR
Browser Compatibility
Spam Protector
Spartacus
Static Pages
Announce entries
Tooltips
HTML META-Tags
HTML Link Metatags
Sitemap Generator (for Crawlers)
Contact Form
Microblogging (Twitter,Identica)
Typeset/Extended Buttons for non-WYSIWYG editors
Google Analytics

================================

Ref. WYSIWYG-Editor. I DID switch to "html" mode - or else pasting code wouldnt make any sense. However, it did not display the Social Bookmark Icons. (Just the headline to them!) - However, that problem I solved by writing a new <div> into the index.tpl which does the trick nicely.

[Don Chambers]

Why does:
http://www.lottozentrale.com/feeds/index.rss2
return the message:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

BRB

The feed looks OK to me using FF3.

[Lottozentrale]

Could be, thanks for that info, I am toying here around with an old SeaMonkey 1.1.17

Any new hindsight on the initial issue anyone?

[Don Chambers]

Sorry - I missed one of your replies.

Check each static page. Set all so they are NOT a start page. Go back to the one that is supposed to be the start page. Make sure it is set to "publish". Make sure Article Type is set to "Article", and not "Static Page with related category".

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Also you might want to try to put the staticpage plugin after the contact form; in some instances the order of staticpage and contactform plugin matters.

Also, does your static startpage display when you use the permalink you specified with it? It might not be shown at all if you set it to another language than your blog is in, or if you set it to "draft" instead of "Publish", like Don says.

HTH,
GArvin

[Lottozentrale]

Hi guys!

Did everything you suggested:
The event plugins I have installed are in exactly that order as posted above - which would indicate the static page-plugin to be before (above) the contact-form plugin. (Did also try to switch positions of those two - to no avail)

I did uncheck all static pages, clicked each on save, went back and just checked the one I wand to show as start-page.

The permalink of the start-page I want to be the start page, can be viewed when clicking on "Die Elite" - and yes, the permalink: http://www.lottozentrale.com/pages/verlosungen.html works just fine.

What makes this twice as "weird" is, that I recall that in the beginning when starting to build that site, it DID work as supposed, - I know I added some plugins later, (like the twitter plugin or recent posts) but dont recall after which installation the correct start-page was changed to show the "news" instead of the designated static page (Die Elite).

Hmmm, ... I had high hopes, that there would be some simple solution to what I might have done wrong to trigger this.

Also strange: I have set the language to German, but when reading out the Meta-Tags / Title etc i.e. with a social Bookmark service the special German characters are being displayed wrong - i.e some weird signs instead of the ä,ö,ü etc which are common in German.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You do have the latest static page version, yes? I'm a bit out of clues, if it's not the language then there's not much left that could be interfering. I can only offer to have a look at the page if you want to share your FTP details with me, then you can contact me via PM.

About the meta tags: The umlauts seem fine to me here in the HTML sourcecode...maybe the bookmark services you use do not properly UTF-8 encode/decode them?

Regards,
Garvin

[Lottozentrale]

Static Page Plugin is version 3.79

Thanks a lot for the kind offer to have a look at it - will send you FTP in a sec via PN