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Changed [edit] so that when you are editing a post on an archived page (whether the page has a .../pageback/... or a .../date/... URL) you are automatically returned to that page after the edit instead of back to the top (current) page.
- jim 12-03-2001 11:08 pm [link] [1 comment]

There is a new [editpage] as of today. Mostly it is the same. There is some basic explanation of some of the controls now. You can see these explanations by clicking the appropriate [?] links on [editpage].

You can now switch between all page types (you can switch a standard template page to a slideshow, or a slideshow to a use your own HTML page, etc...)

Some subtle bugs were fixed when you changed a page's direction (from, say, newest post at top to newest post at bottom.) You should be able to switch back and forth now without problem. Also, if you do have your page set for newest post at the bottom, and you also have more posts than the number displayed on the page (i.e., if some are already retired into the archive) there is now different wording for the automatically inserted links to move forward or backwards through the archive a page at a time. Before the links said '...more recent posts' at the top and 'older posts...' at the bottom. This only made sense if your page was oriented with the newest on top. Now the system is smart enough to recognize if you have the newest at the bottom, and it says '...previous' at the top and 'next...' at the bottom.

This had the nice result of changing the URLs for slideshows (which by default have the newest post at the bottom - although this can now be changed as well.) It used to be /some/slideshow/pageback/xxxx for the link to the next page and /some/slideshow/pageforward/xxx for the link to the previous page. That always annoyed me. Now the URLs are better: /some/slideshow/next/xxx for the next slide and /some/slideshow/previous/xxx for the previous slide.

Also the 'use your own HTML' page is now created slightly differently. Only one box is used for all the HTML, and you must specify inside your HTML where you want the posts from the database to go. This is very powerful and flexible, but a bit confusing. It is documented on [editpage] if you click on the [?] by the HTML box.

(Tom, your 2 'use your own HTML' pages have been updated accordingly, but it's basically the same since you weren't using any posts from the database on those Doris pages.)

Similarly, page includes are now documented, and they use a new syntax that is in the same style as that used for inserting the posts on a 'use your own HTML' page. The old syntax still works, but is no longer supported.
- jim 12-02-2001 8:01 pm [link] [add a comment]