How To Add a Nice Toggle Function to Reveal More Content

Last Updated on Sunday, 9 December 2012 10:29 Written by Nic Bug Sunday, 9 December 2012 12:00

One of my clients needed a convenient solution to apply collapsible content. So came up with a neat idea. You can see it in action here.
It is very easy to implement.

1. Add jQuery Javascript library at least from Google code in your page template (before tag):

How Do I Check That a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is Available?

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 November 2012 08:29 Written by David Bauernschmidt Saturday, 1 December 2012 12:00

The #1 way to speed up your website is to minimize HTTP requests, however; inevitably you will make request for images, audio, video, code, and other content. Whenever; you can off load some of the content to other domains or to other servers your site will always load faster. However; there will be times when those ‘other servers’ will be down. Whether it is just for a moment or for a longer period of time, you do not want your site to be at the mercy of those servers. What can you do? (Glad you asked). You can have the best of both worlds. Why not check to see if the ‘other’ server is available. If it is then use their servers to deliver your content. If not then just load your own content from your site. It is not that hard to do and takes about 3 more lines of code. You can use this for anything in particular. Just find the piece of code to check for.

I am giving you this example of the jQuery library and any library will do just replace the code with the syntax for their library.

How to Add the Tagging Function to CMS Made Simple Modules Part 2

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:35 Written by Nic Bug Monday, 11 June 2012 12:00

In Part 1 we have learned how to assign multiple keywords (tags) to entries of CGBlog Module. Now I want to show you how to retrieve these tags in order to make them visible and clickable in the frontend and browse our entries by them.

We need a new “Summary Template” in CGBlog Module. Call it as you want like “Tag-Summary” and insert the following code (major code is just copied from sample):

How to Add the Tagging Function to CMS Made Simple Modules Part 1

Last Updated on Friday, 30 November 2012 06:15 Written by Nic Bug Wednesday, 6 June 2012 12:00

Tagging is a common and well known feature in Blog Software like WordPress. But unfortunately, it is missing in CMS Made Simple. In this article, I will show you how to add the feature into any module. You can see it in action here.

To understand how it works, I take CGBlog as our desired module in this case. I split the tutorial in two parts because we need new functions in the backend to let the author enter some keywords (tags) and we need the frontend management of the tags. Let’s start with the backend configuration.

Install CGBlog and dependencies first. Then go to CGBlog and add a new “Field Definition”.

mojoPortal Tips: How To Add A Front-Page Rotator in 15 Minutes

Last Updated on Friday, 30 September 2011 08:01 Written by Carole Bennett Friday, 7 October 2011 12:00

Quite often, a client will want to be able to add a “featured content” rotator to their website, with little or no time to create a custom module. With mojoPortal, you do not have to do any custom programming at all; with a bit of CSS, the built-in HTML Content module, and your favorite graphics editor, you can create and add a rotator to your mojoPortal installation in no time at all. Here is how it is done!