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Hi,

Im sure you all have been asked these questions thousands of times so please forgive me in advance. That being said...

I have three people writing on my webpage. From what I can tell, it seems that all users seem to end up on one main giant blog page. Is it possible so that when a visitor to my site clicks on writer A 's link, they will be taken to a blog that only has entries from writer A. When they click on writer b's link on the homepage, they will be taken to writer b's blog only. Also I would like A B C to all have different titles. Is that possible ?

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Where would I find out info on how to change the blog backround color, text color, and add custon banners ?


Thanks
Mike

Hi Mike

spid77 wrote:Where would I find out info on how to change the blog backround color, text color, and add custon banners ?

have a look at http://www.s9y.org/44.html
and Carl Galloway has some good tutorials on his site http://wwwcarlgalloway.com

HTH

Dave

Hi!

I have three people writing on my webpage. From what I can tell, it seems that all users seem to end up on one main giant blog page. Is it possible so that when a visitor to my site clicks on writer A 's link, they will be taken to a blog that only has entries from writer A. When they click on writer b's link on the homepage, they will be taken to writer b's blog only. Also I would like A B C to all have different titles. Is that possible ?

You can go two different routes:

One is, you can click on an author name of an entry and then only see entries by that author. You can also install a sidebar plugin "Authors" that will show links to all authors.

The other is that you can create 3 categories for each of your authors, and then make people go to the different categories. You can then use the plugin "Extended Options for Categories", with which you can assign a different template to each category, so that you can customize the title of the specific categories and their look.

HTH,
Garvin

Thanks. I cant seem to find the "extended options for catagories plugin". Where is it ? You rock.


Mike

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

I have three people writing on my webpage. From what I can tell, it seems that all users seem to end up on one main giant blog page. Is it possible so that when a visitor to my site clicks on writer A 's link, they will be taken to a blog that only has entries from writer A. When they click on writer b's link on the homepage, they will be taken to writer b's blog only. Also I would like A B C to all have different titles. Is that possible ?

You can go two different routes:

One is, you can click on an author name of an entry and then only see entries by that author. You can also install a sidebar plugin "Authors" that will show links to all authors.

The other is that you can create 3 categories for each of your authors, and then make people go to the different categories. You can then use the plugin "Extended Options for Categories", with which you can assign a different template to each category, so that you can customize the title of the specific categories and their look.

HTH,
Garvin

Hi!

This plugin can be found here:

http://spartacus.s9y.org/cvs/additional ... plates.zip

(I'm sorry, the exact name was "Properties/Templates of categories")

you are all awsome. Just one last question. Is it possible to make it so that each of my authors, in each of my catagories has their own top banner/ header/ thingy ?


thanks

Mike

Hi!

You can do that on a category-level, but not on an author-level, like I explained.

With some more manual customization you could though edit your smarty files and make IF-Checks like
However that would be a quite unflexible solution, and would also require a custom config.inc.php file for your template.

Instead, you should go the category-only route as I explained.

Of course you can also just install Serendipity three times on your server, so that each author has his very own blog.

Best regards
Garvin