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Hi, First off I want to thank the developers of serendipity for their awesome work.

What I'm trying to do is use serendipity as a complete CMS for my website but I've ran into a few issues.

First, I need to sort each page of my site by category. Easy enough, so I might have for example:

-Main Page (News)
-About
-Contacts

My problem is that on the main page I might need a headliner that remains at the top with the rest of the news below. So I tried the static page plugin but I cannot seem to print content below that and have it show up, and it generally seems to complicated for what I need to do. Is there an easier way to do this using smarty markup?


Another problem that I have is that I would only need certain sidebar plugins on certain pages. For instance, I don't need archives for contacts. Contacts should not even show up in any searches, etc. Could I call plugins for only certain categories?


Finally, I'd like to remove all the unnecessary info at the bottom of each post. ie: timestamp, category, posted by, etc. but looking through the entries.tpl and tweaking things I can't seem to find what I need. Any hints?


Thanks a bunch for any help!

You can use the plugin "Extended features for articles" (soemthing like this in english) to have articles at the top of a page.

About the sidebars on specific pages i cannot help

You can remove stuff from the entries bottoms by editing the file entries.tpl (or any other template you want to edit), so i guess you are on the right way. Have you searched in the entries.tpl of your current template?

I hope you find something helpful inside

Madmusk wrote:My problem is that on the main page I might need a headliner that remains at the top with the rest of the news below. So I tried the static page plugin but I cannot seem to print content below that and have it show up, and it generally seems to complicated for what I need to do. Is there an easier way to do this using smarty markup?

No need for smarty, just use the plugin serendipity_event_entryproperties (should come with serendipity) which gives you the possibility to have 'sticky' articles. Make your headliner sticky, and there you go.

Madmusk wrote:Finally, I'd like to remove all the unnecessary info at the bottom of each post. ie: timestamp, category, posted by, etc. but looking through the entries.tpl and tweaking things I can't seem to find what I need. Any hints?

This is the so-called entry footer. Have a look at entries.tpl and search for serendipity_entryFooter.

Thanks a lot guys.

One more thing that arose from that last suggestion. How do I remove the giant "Stick Posts" text from a sticky entry? Thanks.

Edit your entries.tpl and change the {$CONST.STICKY_POSTINGS} bit. Removing it altogether might cause problems, but it simply represents a language-specific bit of text; replace it with any text you like, or even a blank (as in  ).

You can also modify the tags around it: for instance, if it says "<h3 class="serendipity_date">{$CONST.STICKY_POSTINGS}</h3>", you could change the <h3> to an <h4>. This may cause problems with the styling, though.

Probably safest to stick to a space or some replacement text.

Hi

Madmusk wrote:Another problem that I have is that I would only need certain sidebar plugins on certain pages. For instance, I don't need archives for contacts. Contacts should not even show up in any searches, etc. Could I call plugins for only certain categories?

you could try the event plugin 'Toggle Sidebar state' that might do what you want.

cheers

Dave