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hey everyone,
I'm new to serendipity.. I have used PHP and MySQL before, so I can understand conceptually.
I just put a new blog up here: I would like to do 3 things with it:

1. add catagories that are listed on new pages, but leave this as the index
2. add a login and password so users must be logged in to add comments
3. add the RSS syndication plugin so one of my catagory pages can be "syndicated" news.

I installed the RSS syndication plugin, but I don't know how to use it..
I know these questions are remedial, but any guidance would be appreciated!!
please help!!
thanks,

Hi,

first of all you have a nice blog over there. Looks fresh.

To answer your questions:

1. If I get you right, as far as is can see you already achieved this. E.g. the page of the OLD-NEW MEDIA is this http://conglomco.org/serendipity/index. ... -NEW-MEDIA

2. not sure about this. There is a login form plugin and a register plugin for the sidebar. And maybe you can use the user and group management to achieve what you want, but i never used this. Maybe someone else can help you out here?

3. and also answering your question from here: http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5743
I think adding feeds manually is not possible. When installing the Syndication plugin you just have the links to the feed of your whole blog. Additionaly you can have a feed per category which you configure in the category plugin in showing the rss icon. But you also already have this: The feed for the OLD-NEW MEDIA category is http://conglomco.org/serendipity/index. ... -MEDIA.rss
Another thing: When you install the free tag plugin you can also have a feed for each tag in the same way as with the categories...

I hope these hints help you.

Welcome in the serendipity universe...
matsch

1) I think the best bet for this is probably a static page. After you install the static page plugin, you can make any HTML you like for the front page. Then the front page will never change, but your categories and such will be on their own pages. The category listing sidebar plugin will even provide links automatically, so you won't have to change the front page every time you add a new category.

2) Serendipity has a "self-registration" plugin that allows anyone to register as a user. Using it, you can specify which groups these new users belong to. You can then remove write privileges from any group you don't want to write comments in the Admin page for "Manage Groups". You can even control the group permissions per category in the Categories link (again, from Admin).

3) You mentioned in another thread that you've got the aggregation plugin installed, so I'll let those other issues be handled there.

thank you so much for the help guys!
Ill let you know how it goes!
thanks,
c