Georgi's FlatPress Guide

The source code of the image with the blue border on the right has been produced with the following HTML code which was generated via the txt2img plugin for FlatPress by wrapping the displayed text in special BBCode tags, as can be seen in the Editor pane below:

<img class=”right blueborder” style=”margin:0px;” src=”http://flatpress.georgi.co.uk/fp-plugins/txt2img/txt2img.php?string=bXllbWFpbEBleGFtcGxlLmNvbQ%3D%3D”>

This is what was entered to trigger the image:

The css used for styling it is:

/* add additional style information here * /
/* use one or more "style" attributes (e.g. style="right blueborder")
to set class name for image * /

img.right {
float: right; 
}

img.blueborder { 
border: 4px solid blue;
}

Download the plugin here

This article explains how to upload a file to your FlatPress blog and then insert a link to it in either a blog post (entry) or a static page using the BBCode editor in the admin panel. [Read More…]

This is a plugin which will let you resize the text on your page.

Download it here

This plugin was made by FlatPress user Bobu.

One of the problems all bloggers face is the constant battle to keep spam comments from getting posted to your site.

There are a number of alternatives to the accessible antispam plugin which ships with FlatPress, simply go to the FlatPress wiki to try a couple out - but one other thing yo can do is add a nofollow rel attribute to the web address associated with a comment, which will serve to dissuade the robots (software which trawls the web looking for places to post spammy comments) from hanging their dirty laundry out on your blog.

Here’s a great tip from Rambling Ross on how to do just that:

To achieve this it is necessary to modify the comments.tpl file found in the root folder for the theme you currently have selected, e.g.

fp-interface/themes/ramblingross/comments.tpl

Within the ordered list with an id of “comments” there is a single list item. This list item contains a link when the $url variable contains something. Modify this link to contain a rel=”nofollow” attribute, e.g.

…
<strong class=’comment-name’>
{* 
using this tag combo, the name is displayed as a link only
if user entered a URL.

Syntax is quite intuitive:
“if $url is not empty, show $name between a tags, 
else default fallback on displaying plain $name”
*}
{$url|notempty:”<a rel=”nofollow” href=”$url” title=”Permalink to $name’s comment”>$name</a>”|default:$name}
</strong>
…

As you can see we display the permalink to a page at the top of each entry or static page. The permalink is the fixed and unchanging link to your page which you should share with others, as URLs which are “prettified” using either the rewriteurls or prettyurls plugins can change.

You also need to use the permalink if you want to use our Static Entry plugin to include an entry in a static page.

Here’s how to do it. [Read More…]