[Radiant] New Site: West Port Book Festival
Announcing a new site built on Radiant: http://westportbookfestival.org/ Designed by Will Brady, built by myself. I was determined to keep it simple, so kept the number of extensions to a minimum: * Reorder[1] * Sass[2] * Subscriber lists[3] * Wrappits[4] * Markdown I considered creating a new model to introduce Event and Venue models, but I decided that it was unnecessary. All the information I needed to store about a venue could easily fit within the page-with-parts paradigm. I just needed to add the reorder extension so I could order on the events chronologically. I wrote the Subscriber lists extension for this project. I would have liked to use the Newsletter extension, but I wasn't sure how to configure the server to send mail from our GMail. Shameless plug: If you are planning to be in Edinburgh this August, be sure to check out the West Port Book Festival. Events are all free! Cheers, Drew [1]: http://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension/tree/master [2]: http://github.com/radiant/radiant-sass-filter-extension/tree [3]: http://github.com/nelstrom/radiant-subscriber-lists-extension/tree [4]: http://github.com/nelstrom/radiant-wrappits-extension/tree ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
Re: [Radiant] New Site: West Port Book Festival
having just heard about wrappits from this post, I am moved to wonder why this isn't part of core radiant behaviour On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Andrew Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Announcing a new site built on Radiant: http://westportbookfestival.org/ Designed by Will Brady, built by myself. I was determined to keep it simple, so kept the number of extensions to a minimum: * Reorder[1] * Sass[2] * Subscriber lists[3] * Wrappits[4] * Markdown I considered creating a new model to introduce Event and Venue models, but I decided that it was unnecessary. All the information I needed to store about a venue could easily fit within the page-with-parts paradigm. I just needed to add the reorder extension so I could order on the events chronologically. I wrote the Subscriber lists extension for this project. I would have liked to use the Newsletter extension, but I wasn't sure how to configure the server to send mail from our GMail. Shameless plug: If you are planning to be in Edinburgh this August, be sure to check out the West Port Book Festival. Events are all free! Cheers, Drew [1]: http://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension/tree/master [2]: http://github.com/radiant/radiant-sass-filter-extension/tree [3]: http://github.com/nelstrom/radiant-subscriber-lists-extension/tree [4]: http://github.com/nelstrom/radiant-wrappits-extension/tree ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant -- Aleks Clark 941-961-9713 http://built-it.net ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
Re: [Radiant] New Site: West Port Book Festival
having just heard about wrappits from this post, I am moved to wonder why this isn't part of core radiant behaviour I thought so too, and submitted a patch[1] for it a while ago. I don't think I managed to convince the gatekeepers to let it in, so I finally got round to releasing it as an extension. Drew [1]: http://dev.radiantcms.org/ticket/611 On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Andrew Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Announcing a new site built on Radiant: http://westportbookfestival.org/ Designed by Will Brady, built by myself. I was determined to keep it simple, so kept the number of extensions to a minimum: * Reorder[1] * Sass[2] * Subscriber lists[3] * Wrappits[4] * Markdown I considered creating a new model to introduce Event and Venue models, but I decided that it was unnecessary. All the information I needed to store about a venue could easily fit within the page-with-parts paradigm. I just needed to add the reorder extension so I could order on the events chronologically. I wrote the Subscriber lists extension for this project. I would have liked to use the Newsletter extension, but I wasn't sure how to configure the server to send mail from our GMail. Shameless plug: If you are planning to be in Edinburgh this August, be sure to check out the West Port Book Festival. Events are all free! Cheers, Drew [1]: http://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension/tree/master [2]: http://github.com/radiant/radiant-sass-filter-extension/tree [3]: http://github.com/nelstrom/radiant-subscriber-lists-extension/tree [4]: http://github.com/nelstrom/radiant-wrappits-extension/tree ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant -- Aleks Clark 941-961-9713 http://built-it.net ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
Re: [Radiant] New Site: West Port Book Festival
Nice site! Well done. Thanks. Couldn't you use the published date to order the events instead of reorder? Although, I personally haven't tried much with dates in the future. I was under the impression that if a page has a publishing date set in the future, it would only become visible on the site from that date onwards. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure if this is true in Radiant, although it is the case with another CMS that I have used. I did wonder about adding a field, called occurs_on, and using it in the way you described above, but in the end I thought it simpler to just use the Reorder extension. I think people would find Wrappits useful. To get it in the core, you should fork Radiant and integrate it into your branch so that it is even easier than applying a patch. This would allow a core member to create a branch, pull your changes, and run your tests to see if it does what it is supposed to do. I'm fairly certain that it would not be added until you write your specs for it. Radiant is well tested and any new features should be well tested too. But I'd certainly vote for it to be part of the core. Thanks for the advice (and the vote!). My original patch included tests, but now that Radiant has moved on to specs I guess it has gone stale. I will try forking Radiant, and translating my tests into specs. Does anyone know a rough schedule for the next release? Cheers, Drew On Jul 22, 2008, at 5:11 AM, Andrew Neil wrote: having just heard about wrappits from this post, I am moved to wonder why this isn't part of core radiant behaviour I thought so too, and submitted a patch[1] for it a while ago. I don't think I managed to convince the gatekeepers to let it in, so I finally got round to releasing it as an extension. Drew [1]: http://dev.radiantcms.org/ticket/611 On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Andrew Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Announcing a new site built on Radiant: http://westportbookfestival.org/ Designed by Will Brady, built by myself. I was determined to keep it simple, so kept the number of extensions to a minimum: * Reorder[1] * Sass[2] * Subscriber lists[3] * Wrappits[4] * Markdown I considered creating a new model to introduce Event and Venue models, but I decided that it was unnecessary. All the information I needed to store about a venue could easily fit within the page-with-parts paradigm. I just needed to add the reorder extension so I could order on the events chronologically. I wrote the Subscriber lists extension for this project. I would have liked to use the Newsletter extension, but I wasn't sure how to configure the server to send mail from our GMail. Shameless plug: If you are planning to be in Edinburgh this August, be sure to check out the West Port Book Festival. Events are all free! Cheers, Drew Jim Gay http://www.saturnflyer.com ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
Re: [Radiant] New Site: West Port Book Festival
Drew, Thanks for the advice (and the vote!). My original patch included tests, but now that Radiant has moved on to specs I guess it has gone stale. I will try forking Radiant, and translating my tests into specs. Does anyone know a rough schedule for the next release? Assuming I get some more time to work on Radiant this week, it will likely be on the weekend (probably Saturday). I need to address existing tickets before I can get to a release stage though. Sean ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
Re: [Radiant] New Site: West Port Book Festival
On Jul 22, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Andrew Neil wrote: I was under the impression that if a page has a publishing date set in the future, it would only become visible on the site from that date onwards. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure if this is true in Radiant, although it is the case with another CMS that I have used. I did wonder about adding a field, called occurs_on, and using it in the way you described above, but in the end I thought it simpler to just use the Reorder extension. It might make sense for that to be a part of the core, but it will change the behavior. Radiant just checks if there is a published date, but doesn't care what it is. The scheduler extension adds some nice features which allows you to set pages to appear and disappear on given dates http://github.com/radiant/radiant-scheduler-extension/tree/master Given the features that scheduler adds, I think it makes sense to leave the default Radiant behavior as is, but it's not entirely intuitive, so perhaps it should be rethought. ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
Re: [Radiant] New Site: West Port Book Festival
Some anecdotal evidence: On a site I've been working on recently that is still on 0.6.4, I added a published-date selector (like what is in 0.6.5+) to the UI using an extension, and converted a page that had been cherry-picking individual articles to use the aggregation extension. When I did that, one article somehow had a published year of 2010 and popped up to the top of the listing. Sean Jim Gay wrote: On Jul 22, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Andrew Neil wrote: I was under the impression that if a page has a publishing date set in the future, it would only become visible on the site from that date onwards. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure if this is true in Radiant, although it is the case with another CMS that I have used. I did wonder about adding a field, called occurs_on, and using it in the way you described above, but in the end I thought it simpler to just use the Reorder extension. It might make sense for that to be a part of the core, but it will change the behavior. Radiant just checks if there is a published date, but doesn't care what it is. The scheduler extension adds some nice features which allows you to set pages to appear and disappear on given dates http://github.com/radiant/radiant-scheduler-extension/tree/master Given the features that scheduler adds, I think it makes sense to leave the default Radiant behavior as is, but it's not entirely intuitive, so perhaps it should be rethought. ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant ___ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
