NewsPublisher: Limiting Users to Their Own Pages in MODX

Last Updated on Sunday, 5 May 2013 01:46 Written by Bob Ray Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:00

If you are using the NewsPublisher extra for MODX Revolution and would like to restrict users to editing only pages they created, there’s a fairly simple solution.

When you put the [[NpEditThisButton]] tag on a page, front-end visitors who are logged in will see a button labeled “Edit” on each page. Clicking on it will launch NewsPublisher with that page loaded in the editor. The secret to keeping users from editing other user’s pages is to just not show them the button. This is easy to do with a simple snippet and a tag in your Template.

OpenCart – Creating Your Own Extension

Last Updated on Friday, 19 April 2013 04:34 Written by Joe Stenhouse Saturday, 20 April 2013 12:00

Perhaps you have been digging around your Open Cart installation and have decided that you want to brave the waters to make your own extension, or perhaps you just cannot afford the money to purchase an existing extension from the store; this article will go over the basics to developing an extension and will attempt to simplify the process. Before we begin, it helps to know the basics of an MVC-L (MODEL VIEW CONTROL LANGUAGE) framework and we recommend reading this article before continuing.

How to Make Your Own Theme – END NOTES

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 07:20 Written by TJ Marsh Wednesday, 13 March 2013 12:00

End Notes and Future Tutorials

I really enjoy working with WordPress. The development team has done an excellent job of putting together a stable piece of software that provides an almost limitless flexibility. I’ve yet to take on a project that WordPress hasn’t been able to handle. Here are a few suggestions for taking your WordPress theme development and customization even further:

How to Make Your Own Theme – PART 8

Last Updated on Saturday, 9 March 2013 03:35 Written by TJ Marsh Tuesday, 12 March 2013 12:00

The last step is to replace the styles in style.css with your own and to edit the theme information. The header comments “default” CSS sheet read as follows:

How to Make Your Own Theme – PART 7

Last Updated on Saturday, 9 March 2013 03:34 Written by TJ Marsh Monday, 11 March 2013 12:00

Now that we’ve covered the basics, it’s time to step into new territory and do some experimenting of your own. For this particular theme, I will continue the customization by modifying the following template files: