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What does FancierURL2 do? It converts the url like this
to this. It actually make it easier to reference a url within a blog and it does look nicer and cleaner.
In our blog that has many blogs built in, we can just type "http://ltooz.com/ltooz341/blog/NUCLEUSCMS" and it would go straight to the blog, which is nice because we don't have to remember all the characters if we don't have FancierULR2.
First we need to download the FancierURL2_v06.zip file and extract it, it contains 2 files, ".htaccess" and "NP_FancierURL2.php"
Upload the ".htaccess" to the root directory = nucleus directory = l2spage
Upload the "NP_FancierURL2.php" to the plugin directory like all other plugins.
Install the plugin
Since the plugin must be on the top page of all plugins, the best is to install this plugin as soon as we set up our blog with NucleusCMS. Now, since it's on the bottom, we have to move it all the way to the top, by clicking "move up" . Another way is to uninstall all plugins except this one and re-install them, which ever is faster for you.
When it's totally to the top, then we need to edit options. We don't want to display time/hour/days and we use UTF-8 in case...
We do need to back up our blogs once in a while if we don't want to loose all the article we wrote if somehow our website is gone and we need to restore our blogs. Nucleus CMS does provide Block Backup, but this one has database and the name of the absolute path must be the same as the backed up one. NP_BlogIE backs up blogs, but only the contents which are portable to any other blogs. We can back up the contents of blog A and import it to blog B, all categories and items will be transferable.
Click Admin or blogie on the side panel, select the blog to be backed up (export), check all the boxes with comments and click export. A pop up window will come up with a generic blogbackup.xml file to save.
Save the file and if we use the firefox then open the content to find the file to rename to a specific name since all blogie will have the same name blogbackup.xml
The good thing about this blogie is that we can import (restore) to any blog we want and it will automatically restore all items in all categories. We have a trial Nucleus...
Click insert/embeded media icon, select the type "windows Media" and enter the url for the wma file, the size of the player.
Click advanced tab to select autoplay or NOT
Now we have the wmplayer size 200x100 pixel. Although the autostart is unchecked but tinymce actually put the value="false" which doesn't actually turn off the autostart. The correct one that we found to actually turn off the autostart is value="0", so we need to go to html mode to edit the code.
This is a ver nice plugin for playing mp3 format files which most people would use these days. The installation is pretty straight forward and extremely easy to use. Follow the instruction on the plugin page which requires the dewplayer. Download the dewplayer for future use with playlist. All the options to play mp3 is in the plugin page, We haven't use all except single mp3 player. Make sure the NP_FlashMP3 is installed.
dewplayers scripts inside the media folder.
Load an mp3 song
(@)<%FlashMP3(1/20091224-Princess Princess.mp3)%> This one doesn't work
(@)<%flashMP3(1/20091224-Princess Princess.mp3)%> Neither does this one.
So, either our system setup is wrong or the instructions on the plugin page is wrong. Our system only play if the code is "flashMP3(full url)" and NOT "FlashMP3(relative url)" and the "f"lashMP3 is lower case.
We tried the folder of mp3 songs, it doesn't play either. There must be something we did wrong with our system.
(@)<%flashMP3(http://ltooz.com/music/xmasmp309)%>
Anyhow, we only use this plugin for single song of mp3. For the playlist, we use DewPlayer xml player.
PLAYLIST for NucleusCMS
To generate a playlist automatically, we need this script xpsf_playlister.vbs and just follow the instruction, it's very easy. Again, we need notepad++ to edit the xml file. We create...
I played with the shadowbox 3.0.1RC a few weeks ago and I really liked it. I modified the NP_LightBox2 to NP_ShadowBox and I got it to work for my blogs. I don't know much about codes, but I modified so I can use it efficiently. Anywho, after trials and errors and gathered information on the Internet on how to "shadowbox", I ironed out all the bugs and here it is and it does even work with ie6 (the most popular but extremely hard to please browser). For those who wants to use it in an html webpage, go here .
Can't display text file with black text with black background. Can't figure out how to change the background color on the fly yet.
Modified Scripts to eliminate conflicts with LightBox2 plugins (rel="lightbox" used to work in shadowbox), without modifications, the shadowbox displays on top of the lightbox2 display.
NP_ShadowBox Usage
This plugin needs to include all the Shadowbox files & JW player5 files necessary to use, you need to download and configure since they can't be included in the plugin due to redistribution rights. Everyone needs to download the files him/herself.
We have both 2 columns and 3 columns skin types, we like to show 10 latest entries when a blog is loaded and when a category is selected, the list of latest 10 items will show for that category. Frank had shown us how to do it and we write it up so we don't forget how to do it later.
Latest Entries
Current Category Items List
In order to do this, we need to create 2 new templates in the templates section: catshowsidebar and headlines.
Edit Templates
Codes that need to be placed in the sidebar or the 2nd bar in the 3 columns skins.
Update/save everything and we should have the display as shown above. The pop ups in this item is shadowbox which we really like now.
I had no idea how the NP_CatShow works until I understand the template of a skin, I tried to put in on the sidebar.inc and it didn't work, on the skin templates, there's index & item which we put the vars and they both seem to work. Anyhow, NP_CatShow is to show the list of the items in the current selected category. If we put the var on the index/item footer, then it will show at the bottom of each item at the display page. As the instruction on the plugin page the author recommended to put at the "item template/item footer". We want to see how it display when the var is placed at the "index template/item footer".
Now we need to place the <%CatShow%> at the item footer of the index template of every skin that we want to use, where is the item footer of index/item templates?
Edit the index template of the skin
Update the template and look at the blog, everything should show up at the bottom of each item (item footer)
Well, we looked at the index page , every page shows up to 10 titles after the end of each item, which are too busy looking, although...
Nucleus plugin has flashvideo player that uses JWplayer that works very well, but it doesn't support full screen and playlist option or we don't know how. Assuming we followed the instruction on the plugin page and installed the plugin correctly, all we need to do is to copy a youtube link and place the code in tinymce editor.
"(@)<%flashvideo(http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/MvgN5gCuLac)%>" must have the @ in front of "<"
JWPLAYER
We use jwplayer playlists a lot, therefore we need to use the code generator from longtailvideo.com. We just place the vars and it produces the embeded code for our page. We placed all down loaded files to a folder in the root directory for accessing everytime we use the code generator. After we did it once, we can just copy the codes and paste to other pages with the new*.xml name.
We need to make a playlist file in xml extension, put it in a folder and direct the player to that file. Here it's youtube.xml, the playlist names/icons are placed to the LEFT, we want the player to play through all the videos, we must select repeat always, volume initial set to 50%, when everything is done, click preview and select embedded codes for NucluesCMS...
When we put a "subscribe to RSS" link on sub-blogs of our Nucleus CMS system, which means all other blogs are in the same directory as the 1st Nucleus Blog, they're all re-direct to the first blog, Ftruscot show us the way to overcome this problem.
We have 5 blogs resides in 1 directory http://ltooz.com/ltooz341/
May be we should have made seperate directory for each blog like
http://ltooz.com/audis, http://ltooz.com/nucleuscms, etc.
Normal code for original code should be
<div id="rss"><a href="<%blogsetting(url)%>xml-rss2.php">Subscribe to RSS</a></div>
We have to change it to
<%if(skintype,error)%> <%elseif(skintype,member)%> <%else%> <div id="rss"><a href="<%sitevar(url)%>xml-rss2.php?blogid=<%blogsetting(id)%>">Subscribe to RSS</a></div> <%endif%>
If we want to see how many times an item is viewed at any given time, NP_VIEWS is the one to use, we set it up so we can see at the item page and the summary @ the Admin plugin page.
Well, first we need to install the plugin (assuming we're expert in how to install plugins by now) if not, then down load and extract the NP_VIEWS.zip, there are 1 folder and 1 file, copy both of these to your domain.com/yournucleus/nucleus/plugins/ directory, then go to admin page, click on the Plugins link (on the left column), go down to the bottom of the plugin page and select the VIEWS plugin, it should be there on the list, if not, then you didn't copy the folder & the php file to the correct directory. If you installed it correctly, you should see this
We left everything by default, but if you want to change the interval or something, click edit options
Now we need to place the var where we want it to show, which is every item in our blogs. Each blog has 1 skin, if we have 5 blogs, then we need to edit 5 index templates because each skin...
I dedicate a whole blog for Nucleuscms because it's still in development. There will be upgrades and changes and new features. This page will list what I discovered and how I use the software.
All Nucleuscms install package came with a default skin which we think it got all the options in it. We just changed the way it looks and left everything else in place. After tons of trials and errors we think we can explain what's what in the default skin.
The skin come standard with the default_right.css and a backup default_left.css which are the two files we modify to change the look of our blog. Inside the skin folder, there are other files like head.inc, header.inc
, sidebar.inc
, skinbackup.xml
, navigation.inc
, footer.inc
If we want to select the default_left.css (which the sidebar is on the left of the item body), we can go to the head.inc and change the default_right.css to default_left.css.
Before we start to modify the default_right.css, we recommend to have a graphic software like photoshop, we use Jasc paint shop pro 8 (bundled with some hardware we bought many years ago), cooltext.com, colorcodes (to select colors for the skin), if you can't find the color codes for some color, you can google for other website which has all different colors, the must have is notepad++ to find the lines of text in files since we need this to edit or modify files in...
If we want the category list to show how many items are in each category, CATLISTVARS plugin is the one to use.
It's dependent upon which skins we use, we have to edit the template on that skin. Since we use the modified default skin, therefore, the pictures are from the default skin. On the left handside column of the admin screen, we should see the Templates shortcut. Anyhow, first, we need to install the catlistvars from the admin Plugins screen
Go to the Templates, select index template and scroll down to the Category List Item, add either (<%numitems%> or [ ] whichever brackets you want the number of items to be in.
When it's done, you should see the display as the first pictures with the number of items in the brackets you chose. If they don't show up, something is wrong with the modified skin that you use. I have one that doesn't show and I haven't figured out why yet!
According to the instruction at the plugin page, we need to edit the item template, in our skin templates, there are index and item, both contains the category list item, I tested them both, one with [] and one with (),...
or [ ] whichever brackets you want the number of items to be in.
