Not even sure I labeled this correctly, I am in the process of converting a site to Umbraco, and there are sections of the site that needs to be edited using the CMS tools in the back end, basically it is a grid with pictures and description text
Here is a sample of the HTML
<div class="hi-icon-effect-1 hi-icon-effect-1a">
<a class="hi-icon">
<img class="img-responsive " id="ImgSales" src="../../Images/sales_icon_circle_grey.png" alt="">
</a>
<p style="padding-left:5px;" id="lblSales" class="">Sales</p>
</div>
What I would like to be able to do is go to the content section of the admin and edit the list of items and configure the image and text for each item.
http://www2.strikemedia.co.za/
If you view the above link and scroll down there will be a grid of items (services) and it is this list that I want to be able to generate.
I am comfortable with all the technologies used in Umbraco, I just do not know the system well enough to do these kinds of modifications, can someone please assist or point me to the resources that will help me build this.
Thanks
You should take a look at the Archetype package: https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/archetype/
As far as I understand your question you are looking for a way to add X amount of similar items to the contents of a page - for this, Archetype is probably perfect :-)
Once you have your list of items added inside Umbraco, look here: https://github.com/kgiszewski/ArchetypeManual/blob/master/03%20-%20Template%20Usage.md
Use case #1 in this example will allow you to iterate through items and output it with whatever "template" you want (aka the HTML sample you provided).
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If you make a Gallery in Batflat CMS, the template tag it creates will generate its only Bootstrap HTML for a gallery. What if I just want to emit IMG tags for the gallery items, instead?
Create a Gallerymod custom module. That way, your customization may likely survive a Batflat Update.
Copy inc/modules/galleries as inc/modules/gallerymod.
Remove the lang folder and Admin.php in your gallerymod folder.
Change the Name and Description inside the gallerymod/Info.php, as well as the comments. I used static strings instead of code. Also in this file, inside the install function and uninstall function, remove code inside those so that it does nothing on install or uninstall.
In your gallerymod/Site.php, look for the $assign[$gallery['slug']] assignment, and on the following line, add:
$assign[$gallery['slug'] . '-alt1'] = $this->draw('gallery-alt1.html', ['gallery' => $tempAssign]);
Also, where you have the namespace line set as namespace Inc\Modules\Galleries;, change it to namespace Inc\Modules\Gallerymod;.
In your gallerymod/view folder, create a gallery-alt1.html file and add these contents:
{loop: $gallery.items}
<img class="photo-{if: $value.title}{$value.title}{/if}" alt="" class="img-responsive" src="{?=url($value.src.lg)?}">
{/loop}
Now activate this inactive module in Batflat's admin system. You'll notice that it has no admin panel -- because it doesn't need one. You already have the Galleries one. Do not deactivate the Galleries module because the Gallerymod module relies on the Galleries module.
Now, from your custom theme template, you can call this by varying how you called the old slug. So, if your old way of calling the gallery was something like {$gallery.home-photos}, then you would merely tack on the "-alt1" on the end and call it like {$gallery.home-photos-alt1}. I like to wrap these in a DIV wrapper with an ID on it so that I can address it with CSS, jQuery, or Javascript.
In the Batflat Admin system, go back and edit your image titles in the gallery. Treat those titles like a slug (lowercase alphanumeric phrase with dashes) because these are used as class names on the IMG tags in gallery-alt1.html, and you may want to address these individually in CSS, jQuery, or Javascript, later on.
Refresh your browser and you may see the source code display something similar to:
<div id="hidden-images" class="hidden">
<img class="photo-man2" alt="" class="img-responsive" src="https://example.com/uploads/galleries/2/15831273220.jpg">
<img class="photo-woman1" alt="" class="img-responsive" src="https://example.com/uploads/galleries/2/15831272980.jpg">
<img class="photo-man1" alt="" class="img-responsive" src="https://example.com/uploads/galleries/2/15831272540.jpg">
</div><!-- hidden-images -->
Just remember that if you update your version of Batflat, that you may need to reapply this customization again -- it depends on what was done in the update to the existing Galleries module.
If you have different tastes as to how you want to format your images, just edit your gallery-alt1.html file. Plus, you can make multiples of these for different situations, such as gallery-alt2.html, gallery-alt3.html, etc. You can even make it emit JSON instead of html so that you can insert it into a Javascript block in your theme.
Another tip for debugging, in case your site won't load or the admin system breaks, is to edit inc/core/defines.php and change the DEV_MODE to false. That way, PHP will show you every error and that might help you in debugging what might be wrong.
I'm working on a news publishing site that needs to load in stories from an RSS feed below the current news page. I've been using InfiniteAjaxScroll (http://infiniteajaxscroll.com/) to some success however, I've hit a brick wall. There is not way for me to dynamically change what story should load in next as you scroll down the page.
Does anyone know of any other plugins, tutorials, examples that replicate behavior like this. I've searched but come up with nothing that meets these requirements.
I'm trying to create something similar to what the Daily Beast has implemented on their site.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/05/inside-the-democrats-godawful-midterm-election-wipeout.html
How do they know what stories to load in?
Thanks!
If you're using the InfiniteAjaxScroll library, the "next story" is whatever link you define as the next URL which can be dynamic for each story you load.
Imagine your first story's HTML as something like this
<div class="stories">
<div class="story">
...
</div>
</div>
<div id="pagination">
next
</div>
Then in the storyC.html you have
...
<div id="pagination">
next
</div>
Assuming you're using some sort of dynamic backend, you would use some sort logic to grab a related story and just set that URL as the "next" URL.
I have a problem that has taken me days to figure out.
The social follow icons I get from AddThis website appear vertically instead of horizontally. I want to make it appear horizontally but I have found that it is impossible to do so.
Below is the code I got from https://www.addthis.com/get/follow
<!-- AddThis Follow BEGIN -->
<p>Follow Us</p>
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style">
<a class="addthis_button_facebook_follow" addthis:userid="TheMostafaAbedi"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_twitter_follow" addthis:userid="theMostafaAbedi"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_google_follow" addthis:userid="106914586115617584077"></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=xa-506a607f490b6601"></script>
<!-- AddThis Follow END -->
The specific page that the problem occurs is http://www.under-review.com/about under Mostafa Abedi description.
You've got line breaks between lines of code, which makes the icons go one below the other. You're most likely using the WordPress editor to insert the code, which alters the formatting.
If you're using Visual editor, switch to HTML editor and give it a try.
If you're using HTML editor, at the very least remove all the spacing between items, making them placed in one line, which would prohibit WordPress from entering new lines, i.e.:
<a class="addthis_button_facebook_follow" addthis:userid="TheMostafaAbedi"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter_follow" addthis:userid="theMostafaAbedi"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_follow" addthis:userid="106914586115617584077"></a>
From my experience, about 90% of all formatting issues are fixed by good code and as a rule I follow W3C. I suggest you validate against that because at the moment it fails (both the HTML and CSS fails)
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Funder-review.com%2Fabout%2F
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Funder-review.com%2Fabout%2F
I want a sidebar on article page, with additional info. Is there such a solution for Joomla 1.5.
I mean that I add an article and the info is pulled from my text between the tags e.g.
{info_for-sidebar}
Lorem ipsum....
{/info_for-sidebar}
And this info shows in sidebar for current article with actual info.
Is this possible?
Setting up something like what you are asking for require some sort of workarounds.
First, lets agree that what you are calling a "sidebar" is nothing but a content... You enter that content as a part of your article.
So, to achieve what you are asking for I would recommend you use what is called CCK - Content Construction Kit - extension for Joomla using Form2Content. There's a free light edition that would be enough.
Form2Content let you setup a content type. You define what fields you want for each content. Then you create a template that will use the info you are going to enter on the fields to built an article layout.
So let's say you are going to create 3 fields like this :
1- Intro text
2- Full text
3- Sidebar
You are going to create a template as we said. each content type will have 2 templates an intro text template and a full text template
The full text template shall be like this :
<div class="content-container">
<div class="content-sidebar">{$SIDEBAR}</div>
<div class="content-fulltext">{$FULLTEXT}</div>
<br clear="both" />
</div>
The {$SIDEBAR} and {$FULLTEXT} are the text you entered in the form and Form2Content will use it to create a regular content with layout.
If you don't want to use another extension or that solution looks too complicated, you could use a javascript solution. For example you could create an HTML module in Joomla and assign its to the sidebar. On this module switch the view to HTML code and enter this:
<div class="content-sidebar"></div>
When you enter an article, switch the view to HTML code and enter the text you want to show on the sidebar and add a class to the paragraph or the div like this :
<p class="special-content">Lorem ipsum dolor<p>
Then use jQuery to append this special text to the sidebar like this :
jQuery(".content-sidebar").append(".special-content");
Note: Joomla does not load jQuery by default, you have to add it on your template or use a plugin.
Each blog post on my site -- http://www.correlated.org -- is archived at its own permalinked URL.
On each of these archived pages, I'd like to display not only the archived post but also the 10 posts that were published before it, so that people can get a better sense of what sort of content the blog offers.
My concern is that Google and other search engines will consider those other posts to be duplicate content, since each post will appear on multiple pages.
On another blog of mine -- http://coding.pressbin.com -- I had tried to work around that by loading the earlier posts as an AJAX call, but I'm wondering if there's a simpler way.
Is there any way to signal to a search engine that a particular section of a page should not be indexed?
If not, is there an easier way than an AJAX call to do what I'm trying to do?
Caveat: this hasn't been tested in the wild, but should work based on my reading of the Google Webmaster Central blog and the schema.org docs. Anyway...
This seems like a good use case for structuring your content using microdata. This involves marking up your content as a Rich Snippet of the type Article, like so:
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" class="item first">
<h3 itemprop="name">August 13's correlation</h3>
<p itemprop="description" class="stat">In general, 27 percent of people have never had any wisdom teeth extracted. But among those who describe themselves as pessimists, 38 percent haven't had wisdom teeth extracted.</p>
<p class="info">Based on a survey of 222 people who haven't had wisdom teeth extracted and 576 people in general.</p>
<p class="social"><a itemprop="url" href="http://www.correlated.org/153">Link to this statistic</a></p>
</div>
Note the use of itemscope, itemtype and itemprop to define each article on the page.
Now, according to schema.org, which is supported by Google, Yahoo and Bing, the search engines should respect the canonical url described by the itemprop="url" above:
Canonical references
Typically, links are specified using the element. For example, the
following HTML links to the Wikipedia page for the book Catcher in the
Rye.
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Book">
<span itemprop="name">The Catcher in the Rye</span>—
by <span itemprop="author">J.D. Salinger</a>
Here is the book's <a itemprop="url"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye">Wikipedia
page.
http://schema.org/docs/gs.html#advanced_enum
So when marked up in this way, Google should be able to correctly ascribe which piece of content belongs to which canonical URL and weight it in the SERPs accordingly.
Once you've done marking up your content, you can test it using the Rich Snippets testing tool, which should give you a good indication of what Google things about your pages before you roll it into production.
p.s. the most important thing you can do to avoid a duplicate content penalty is to fix the titles on your permalink pages. Currently they all read 'Correlated - Discover surprising correlations' which will cause your ranking to take a massive hit.
I'm afraid but I think it is not possible to tell a Search Engine that a specif are of your web page should not be be indexed (example a div in your HTML source). A solution to this would be to use an Iframe for the content you do not what search engine to index, so I would use a robot.text file with an appropriate tag Disallow to deny access to that specific file linked to the Iframe.
You can't tell Google to ignore portions of a web page but you can serve up that content in such a way that the search engines can't find it. You can either place that content in an <iframe> or serve it up via JavaScript.
I don't like those two approaches because they're hackish. Your best bet is to completely block those pages from the search engines since all of the content is duplicated anyway. You can accomplish that a few ways:
Block your archives using robots.txt. If your archives in are in their own directory then you can block the entire directory easily. You can also block individual files and use wildcards to match patterns.
Use the <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="noindex"> tag to block each page from being indexed.
Use the X-Robots-Tag: noindex HTTP header to block each page from being indexed by the search engines. This is identical in effect to using the ` tag although this one can be easier to implement since you can use it in a .htaccess file and apply it to an entire directory.