What Are You Working On - February 2018

Useless · 2018-02-01, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Toby

When I get to Phase 2, the public pages, I'm going to have to learn responsive design so it can be used on tablets and smart phones too.

As I tell everyone, though you probably already realize this, the best thing to do is to grab a free bootstrap template and bend it to your will. Learning is hard. Duct tape is strong.

As usual, I am juggling projects on many of my domains. I am considering continuing to use WP as the CMS for my paysite tour for adding and editing data and images, but creating my own external template so I can have more control over where and how things appear. I love the WP theme it currently uses, but I have struggled to make it look paysite-ish. In the meantime, I have been adding "model" pages to the tour to give prospective customers a better idea of who is inside, as well as to drag in a few more search engine clicks.

Useless · 2018-02-03, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I am considering continuing to use WP as the CMS for my paysite tour for adding and editing data and images, but creating my own external template so I can have more control over where and how things appear.

I have already given up on that because WP is a cocksucker. If you want to pull the posts form the database with basic PHP, you end up with all of the post revisions as well. I couldn't find any way to filter that shit-show so I'd get only the most recent revision, so, well, fuck it.

After installing and removing several CMSeseseseses (that's the correct plural), I have settled on Couch CMS. It's a bit of a ballbuster at first, but you design your templates exactly as you want them and place snippets of code in them where you want the data and images to appear. The admin adjusts magically to each template. If you want three separate editable text areas on a template, the admin will create three different text editors. If you want seven images with different thumbs sizes, the image uploader will appear seven times and will create the thumbs of the sizes requested within the template. Neat, eh? So far, I have created a "model" template. I can choose any existing model's page or the blank template and click "add another," and the admin will open a blank new model page. Good times.

ArtWilliams · 2018-02-03, 11:15 AM

Sounds interesting. I will have to take a look at it. In a world of WP, Joomla and Drupal its nice to have a change of pace.

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Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I have already given up on that because WP is a cocksucker. If you want to pull the posts form the database with basic PHP, you end up with all of the post revisions as well. I couldn't find any way to filter that shit-show so I'd get only the most recent revision, so, well, fuck it.

After installing and removing several CMSeseseseses (that's the correct plural), I have settled on Couch CMS. It's a bit of a ballbuster at first, but you design your templates exactly as you want them and place snippets of code in them where you want the data and images to appear. The admin adjusts magically to each template. If you want three separate editable text areas on a template, the admin will create three different text editors. If you want seven images with different thumbs sizes, the image uploader will appear seven times and will create the thumbs of the sizes requested within the template. Neat, eh? So far, I have created a "model" template. I can choose any existing model's page or the blank template and click "add another," and the admin will open a blank new model page. Good times.

Useless · 2018-02-06, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by artwilliams

Sounds interesting. I will have to take a look at it. In a world of WP, Joomla and Drupal its nice to have a change of pace.

I have launched the new Couch CMS tour and I'm pretty happy with it. There was a rather large learning curve with Couch because it is so different. It's not just a quick install for an instant website like so many other CMS's. However, it definitely has major bonuses once you get your head around it.

The one thing to know ahead of time is that your template name will become the name of the directory the pages using that template will appear to reside in. So, if your template is "template.php" and you use SEO friendly URLs, and you have a post named "Useless has a Big Dick," the resulting URL will be mysite.com/template/useless-has-a-big-dick.html. In other words, name your templates wisely. If you don't use the SEO friendly .htaccess thing (which Couch will generate for you), your URLs will be something like mysite.com/template.php?p=16.

It does provide some simple tricks for listing all of your posts on a particular page and the pagination is the easiest I have ever seen. You don't have know PHP to use Couch's tags. It's nice. Your templates are literally HTML pages with bits of Couch's tags slapped inside. If you ever played with Smarty templates, it's a similar idea, but simpler.

http://docs.couchcms.com/concepts.html