This prob isn’t a new catch but the first thing I spotted after install was that since I use an aliased control panel folder (/admin/) that the auto update feature fails to work.
...and while I’m here. I was under the impression that the pages ‘collection’ would also hide the static weblog section within the publish tab? For me this isn’t happening right now, anyone else having any luck with that?
I think Mark has a ‘hide weblog’ extension specifically for that, as opposed to having it built into the module. I don’t use the module, though, so I may be wrong on that.
I’d suggest going with the workaround for now, i’d like to get a new version out in a few weeks but that just doesn’t seem feasible right now. So it’s looking like almost three weeks until an update.
Mark - I don’t know if this has been brought up, but what are the odds of having this Pages extension/module find out what the default “Word Separator for URL Titles” is under Global Weblog Preferences in the CP and using that for generating the {static_page_short_name}?
I’m one of those people that just prefer the dash to the underscore. Right now, I go into ext.pages.php and change lines 166 and 309 from ‘...array(”“, “_”)...’ to ‘...array(”“, “-”)...’ but I don’t like to “hack” things any more than the next person does.
I know you’re way busy, but I thought I’d throw this out there. If there is a way to specify the separators (OTHER than manually putting my in the Category Description box myself - sometime I actually need to use that for a description) then I’m all ears. Thanks.
Hi,
I got pages to work now and it looks very good, one issue though:
I my template I use:
Test
{exp:weblog:entries category=”{static_page}” dynamic=“off” weblog=“static”}
{title}
{summary}
{body}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
The page “About” will be rendered to
Test About {summary} {body}
So, the template will be used, this is why I see the word Test, it will also determine the correct entry (About) and render the approriate title replacing {title} with “About”. But it will never ever touch {summary} {body}. There are entries in those fields!! I checked this not only for the static categoroy “about”, but also for “Impressum” and other statics.
I´ve one clue: Maybe I installed it the wrong way? Those where the steps:
- create weblog “static”
- add category group “static” and add the category structure
- link the category group to the weblog
- switch over to pages and click on the first category to enter content
- seeing, that I can only enter the title, no other fields there
- thinking about it, leaving pages and going back into weblog management to link the weblog up with a field set
- going back to pages and clicking on the first category to add content. Now I have the fields title, summary and body there
My suspicion is, that pages doesn´t recognize summary + body because I added them afterwards.
I second mdesign’s request regarding the dash. However, when I implement this hack, it doesn’t seem to render sub-category pages properly—it shows the main category pages properly, but not the sub-cats… when I return the ext.pages.php back to normal, it shows the sub-category page properly. mdesign, can you tell me if this is the same for you?
