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Hi all, just thought I'd drop by and say thanks to all the pluck developers for making such an awesome product. Using this has saved a small fortune in database hosting and has allowed me to get a site up and running in days.
Even though I'm a .NET developer by trade and have barely used PHP, the clean well-commented code was easy to understand and modify.
The site is http://ajcoulton.com
Notable modifications I've made to 4.6.3:
- support for simulated sub-pages to allow the use of friendly URLs and mod_rewrite
- blog archiving feature, so that only the current month's blog entries are shown by default
- 'intelligent' menu highlighting, so the current top-level category menu item is highlighted when in a sub-page
...and of course a customised theme.
Thanks guys, keep up the good work!
Danny,
Webmaster, AJCoulton.com
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The SEO friendly URLS look Great !!!
Bob
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Hey Danny,
How did you achieve the SEO friendly URLs? Did you just rename the kop files after creating the entire website or did you do some hardcoding in the .htaccess file or somewhere else? Would love to know this.
Andy
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Hey Danny,
How did you achieve the SEO friendly URLs? Did you just rename the kop files after creating the entire website or did you do some hardcoding in the .htaccess file or somewhere else? Would love to know this.
Andy
Hi Andy,
First, I modified newpage.php to generate a filename based on the document title (and adding an incremental number if the file already exists) to do away with the "kopN" style names.
To make it look like there's a page hierarchy, the pages are named like this: section_subsection_page.php - then, .htaccess rules convert a url like this 'http://ajcoulton.com/projects/books/bookone' into 'http://ajcoulton.com/?file=projects_books_bookone.php'
Finally, there's an additional field in the new page editor which allows the user to override the page title, so the title that the visitor sees can be set to anything and isn't necessarily the same as the document filename. Also, the menu system is modified so that the menu order is set by the user and isn't alphabetical.
It's a bit of a hack and it depends on the user naming the pages correctly, but if there's only one person adding content it's not a problem.
Hope this helps,
Danny.
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Wow, that's neat. But I'm not a programmer/coder so will not be able to achieve this. Would you mind uploading your edits with instructions for my and other Pluck users' benefit?
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That would be good if you could upload your edited files for everyone to see
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