For those of you who have upgraded to FF 3.5 the PubsysEdit tool will not work. Please click this link for a version that will work with 3.5:
pubsyseditv3.5.xpi
Author Archives: droberts
Quick fix for PubsysEdit Firefox extension
How we set up the comments on/off
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I wanted to pass along a very basic overview of how we set this up.
Within InSite (our registration system) we created a new custom field that would allow users to indicate a yes/no on viewing comments. We created a new cookie so we could track this preference when the user logs in.
On our story pages [...]
RSS2Twitter aggregator script
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Our shop has crafted a script that allows us to:
Take RSS items and tweet them to a specific Twitter account (RSS2Twitter)
This script is written in PHP and designed to work without a database. I left the database out so anyone with space on a server (including the server our news sites occupy) could quickly add [...]
more...Twitter2Twitter aggregator script
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Our shop has crafted a script that allows us to:
Reroute tweets from one Twitter account to another (Twitter2Twitter)
This script is written in PHP and designed to work without a database. I left the database out so anyone with space on a server (including the server our news sites occupy) could quickly add this — although [...]
more...What Exactly Is Pluck Passing Around?
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If you look at what’s being output in both the console and the DOM for your sites, you’ll see that Pluck is carrying around a lot more about the user than the avatar and persona link.
Here’s a bit of jQuery that helps dive into some of this data:
$(window).load(function () {
// run code
for(var i=frames.length-1; i>=0; i–){
var [...]
Direct Linking To Your Persona
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I have to give credit where credit is due… the guys in Sacramento cooked this up (thanks, Kevin McClusky).
If you’re like me you needed a simple link to get someone to their persona page and you did NOT need the avatar with it.
You need two functions:
// Grabs a cookie based on cookie, and optionally sub [...]
PubsysEdit 2.1 Released
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Version 2.1: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/static/firefox/pubsysedit_v21.xpi
Features
How to install
Notes
Template modifications
FEATURES
- Direct access to edit a story if you are on a story level URL.
- Access to the following section-specific items (menu appears at the top of the screen):
Highlight Lists
Published Items
Edit Section
Templates
Page Elements
Aliases
Rebuild Index
Site Hierarchy (this is for entire site)
- Access to the following on a per link basis off [...]
more...Pubsysedit 2.1 beta released
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In this release:
Icons have been refined. Instead of a large pencil, there is now a color coded box with a letter. E = edit story, T = edit tout (if your site uses these) and G = edit gallery.
Added to the strip at the top: Published Items, Templates, Page Elements, Aliases and Rebuild Index
Still working [...]
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