Tips tagged “Template”
- A generic User Message Template
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Posted on December 09, 2010 by Derek Hogue
Here’s a simple, generic User Message Template that’s gentler on the eyes than the EE default. Easy to customize as well to match your site’s colours if you’re so inclined!
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> - Use a single template for multiple pages
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Posted on June 09, 2009 by Andy Harris
On most of our sites we have many pages that are exactly the same, using the same weblog where only the content is different.
In cases like these, I create a single template along these lines:
{assign_variable:weblog="{embed:weblog}"}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{weblog}" disable= - Change your hidden template indicator
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Posted on June 08, 2009 by Andy Harris
I like to use hidden template indicator to hide templates - the default is to add a period before the template name, so for example if I have a template for my header, I would call it .header so it cannot be accessed directly.
However, the period before a filename also means a hidden file as far
- Use conditionals to design your own URL structure
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Posted on June 08, 2009 by JonnyUK
The EE docs state that URL’s at their simplest should be formatted using the following formula:
http://www.example.com/index.php/template_group/template/But what if you want a more customised (or even dynamic) URL that doesn’t necessarily match the template name?
If you try to visit a URL
- Hidden Templates
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Posted on June 07, 2009 by Erik Reagan
You can easily make a template “hidden” by adding a period before the name. This comes in handy if you use embeds that you don’t want accessed via the standard template group/template route. For example by default you can access the following file:
http://domainname.com/index.php/embeds/masthead