- Kendle
* There is a section for saving entries that is hidden from public view (enabling you to create documents at your leisure and then publish them when you're ready), but only certain people can see it. I guess what you're asking for is a system like that but where only your own articles are available. Sounds like a good idea, I'll give it some thought.
Well I was more thinking about a draft option like the one in Wordpress but it would only allow you to see your own drafts and not others'.
- Kendle
* The preview option is rubbish, agreed, really need to scrap that and do something as you suggest, a full page with an option to publish or discard. Could maybe link this to the draft option, with a "save to draft" option as an intermediate step before publishing.
Yes definetely!
- Kendle
* The bbcode system is part of the CMS and something I don't like to modify, but I have done so in the past (in fact I already have a flag option, not sure why I haven't installed it here). I'll give this some thought as well, it's easy to do but it just means I break compatibility with the core CMS when it comes time to apply patches.
Yes please : )
- Kendle
* Not sure what the current thinking is on comments, we've had some issues in the past with people abusing the comment system. I'm not sure I'd agree that an author of an article should be allowed to edit / delete comments made by others on that article (which I think is what you're asking for?). If eya specifically wants this done I'll give it some thought but it could actually be rather complicated to implement, because the comments are handled by a separate module that only knows which page the comments are to be displayed on, it doesn't know anything about the content of the page or the author of it.
Yes I understand why it's not allowed by admins. No problems with that.
Thank you very much!
- Brainie
I got scared as hell when I saw that my article wasn't published once I hit the publish button. It saves correctly but once I publish it, it disapears. Luckily I had a html backup
. Perhaps it's because of the permission system? Then you should prevent the user if the article is put under a review process otherwise it scares the hell of ya
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Yeah, some categories (probably most) require admin approval before the content goes "live". I guess an author should always be able to see his / her own stuff, even if it's awaiting approval. I'll take care of that.
- Brainie
Make the content less large. It's too large and I don't think it's visually great... I know the page is big but it's not attractive when you read a content that is spread on the whole page's width if you see what I mean.
Content is displayed the way the site theme is designed to display it, which is outside the scope of the content module or any individual section of the website. You should understand there are 2 parts to the CMS, the data / content that's stored in the database, and a "skin" or "theme" that formats the data before presenting it to the visitor. I'm the coder, I deal with the data / content. I'm not a designer, the layout of this site is largely based on a theme that comes with the CMS.
To give you some examples of what the site could look like here are a couple of gaming sites that use the exact same code as this site does, but with different skins:
www.qlimaxx.com/ <-- Portuguese gaming site, mostly COD4
espc.asia/ <-- Chinese gaming site, mostly CS:GO
This site could look like those, except they both have talented designers working for them. We don't.
- Brainie
Is it possible to have a system (or if you could give me a way to do it in html) to place images in the text? I would like to use more images in my text but I can't manage to place them on the right or left side with the text just beside it. The text goes right under it (back tab).
You'd need to use HTML for this, bbcode is a poor tool for layout purposes. The simplest way to align images is to add a CSS style="" attribute to the image tag. For example :-
Code:
text text text text etc.<img src="path/to/image.png" alt="some text" style="float:right" />
Would place the image to the right of the page with text to the left. Change it to style="float:left" to place the image to the left of the text.