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cmskherrmann Guest
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:25 am Post subject: add email or other text to every post |
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Hi John,
I'd like to start listing my company's email address at the bottom of every post and would like to set up my template so it's automatically inserted. Can you tell me how?
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john Site Admin
Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 3434
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: add email or other text to every post |
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You'll need to modify the article and category templates. The article template controls what an article looks like when its displayed by itself as the Permanent Link, and the category template controls what the list of articles looks like in category view.
To modify the article template for example: - Login to your Blog Admin Control Panel through the Login page.
- Click on the Look and Feel tab, then the Templates subtab.
- Now you see a list of the Templates you can customize. We are going to customize the article template, which controls the look of an article when it appears by itself (on its permanent link) and not on a category page, so click Edit in the row that begins with the word article.
- Now you'll be on a page listing the current article templates (there will probably be only one). Go all the way to the bottom of the page and click the Customize button.
- Click the Go button to Copy the Standard template to the staging area. You'll come to the page where you can customize the article template.
Look at the Staging Template Content box, the lower box, and look for this code:
Code: | <div class="articleBody">{{body}}
</div> <!-- article -->
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As an example, you could change it to this:
Code: | <div class="articleBody">{{body}}
</div> <!-- article -->
<div style="margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:25px; border-top: 1px solid #bbb; border-bottom: 1px solid #bbb;padding:3px;">
Please contact us at this email address: email@example.com.</div>
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Click the Save and Activate button at the bottom of the page, and your articles will all show this new text at the bottom of the article.
Now let's modify the category template. My suggestion would be to add this special footer only for articles that are displayed as full text in category view, i.e. articles which do not have an excerpt.
Repeat the steps above for modifying the article template, but this time access the category template. Look for this code in your category template:
Code: | <div class="articleBody">
{{if excerpt}}
{{excerpt}} <span class="articleMore"><a href="{{view_url}}" align="right" border="0" width="13" height="13">more</a> <strong>»</strong></span>
{{else}}
{{body}}
{{/if}}
</div> <!-- articleBody --> |
Change it to this:
Code: | <div class="articleBody">
{{if excerpt}}
{{excerpt}} <span class="articleMore"><a href="{{view_url}}" align="right" border="0" width="13" height="13">more</a> <strong>»</strong></span>
{{else}}
{{body}}
<div style="margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:25px; border-top: 1px solid #bbb; border-bottom: 1px solid #bbb;padding:3px;">
Please contact us at this email address: email@example.com.</div>
{{/if}}
</div> <!-- articleBody --> |
and now your articles will also have this footer when displayed in category view.
By modifying the article and category templates you can highly customize the look and feel of your blog. Hope this helps get you started. |
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