Archive | August, 2008

On The Other Hand

15. August 2008

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Me, earlier: My thought of the day: While the scroller is really cool, and learning to use it gave me some good brain exercise …. How long would regular readers continue to find it cool? After the first couple times playing with it, I could see it getting old…. and regular, returning readers just want [...]

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Blog Parent Categories

15. August 2008

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I’ll continue to post my “installation notes” here… The BLOG section of the Vibrant Theme is based upon creating a Parent category named “Blog” and setting the blog URL to “/category/blog/”  on the Vibrant options page. And then when you click on the “blog” navigation link, it serves up items categorized under “blog” Setting Vibrant up as a real [...]

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The Small Conundrum Part II

14. August 2008

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Oh.  After a page is created, simply changing its title does not change the permalink. So I need to edit the permalink for each already exisiting page (so it is not a duplicate of the post permalink).  I’m adding a -1.

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A Small Solvable Conundrum

14. August 2008

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Re using Vibrant CMS for real estate/property listings. Say you have a property listing, and you create a featured page for the listing to go into the scroller. And then you create a blog post for the listing as well,  to provide more infomation than will fit in the scroller page. If you are using pretty URLS, don’t [...]

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Updating VibrantCMS

13. August 2008

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The easiest way to update VibrantCMS is to simply upload the entire new folder, overwriting everything in the old folder. HOWEVER, if you do this, BE SURE to first make copies of any theme files that you have changed, such as the stylesheet or header, so you can re-install your customized files after the update. All the [...]

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The Basic To-Do List

12. August 2008

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Upload Theme & Activate  …  See documentation here http://www.woothemes.com/support/theme-documentation/vibrantcms/ My additional notes: First step after activating:  Compose pages for Info Boxes and Extended Footer.  Note ID numbers of each page.  In VibrantCMS Options, place page ID numbers in Info Boxes and Extender Footer Boxes, Next:  Set up blog.  Create Parent Category “Blog”, edit all existing categories to be [...]

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No more Flutter

12. August 2008

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Well that was fast. I just downloaded Vibrant CMS a couple days ago. I decided I liked it so much, I wanted to use it on another site. I uploaded it, went back to the Woo web site to review the instructions for setting up the Custom Write Panel,,, and the instructions were gone. The Woo [...]

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Main Navigation in Upper Right Corner

10. August 2008

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Regarding the man navigation links in the upper right corner: As you add pages, unless they are featured pages in the scroller, info boxes, or extended footer, they will be added to the navigation menu in the upper right corner of the screen. If you want to keep the navigation menu simple, with only links for the [...]

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I’m liking this….

10. August 2008

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Yep, I think I’m liking this concept for a featured home layout. Gimme a couple days and I’ll write out the how-to steps for the vertical collage, if you want them.

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Important: 9 Is Maximum

10. August 2008

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Looks like the maximum number of pages that will work in the scroller is 9.  After 9, the 10th  crowds up on the 9th, and the others don’t show up at all……

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