Mar

7

Fragmentor Plugin for SkyBlueCanvas

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Fragmentor is a plugin to be used instead of or alongside the default Fragment Plugin in SkyBlueCanvas. Fragmentor provides template and fragment developers an alternative and much more flexible syntax for loading dynamic content views (fragments) into SkyBlueCanvas web pages. Since the plugin uses a different syntax from the default fragment plugin, it will not conflict with it. With Fragmentor, you can pass an arbitrary number of key=< value pairs of data from your article text or template file.

Mar

7

Editable Sidebar Content Hack

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A few nights ago, Steve Fister, one of the SkyblueCanvas Development Team Members posed the question again and offered a few ideas on how to pull it off. After thinking about Steve’s suggetions, I realized that this is actually quite easy to do. In fact, with Steve’s idea, you can add an editable text block anywhere on a web page. What’s more, with a little SkyBlueCanvas Skin Magic, you can build page-specific text blocks, so if you want a different block of text to appear on different pages, you can do it with this trick.

Feb

22

MyVars String Replacement Extension

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The new MyVars extension allows you to create custom search variables/tokens that will be replaced with the values you specify
when your web page is rendered in the browser. This feature can be helpful when you want to be able to easily change
bits of informatin such as phone numbers, emails, web page URLs or image paths. You set the value once, and it is displayed
anywhere in your site you choose. If the value changes, you only make the change in one place.

Aug

28

Showing Text Shreds Anywhere in SkyBlueCanvas

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A recent visitor to the SkyBlueCanvas forum asked how to display individual blurbs of text in a specific spot on a SkyBlueCanvas page. If you are familiar with the SkyBlueCanvas Managers and Modules you probably recognize that this concept is very similar to the Teasers. In this post I will show you how to show individual Teasers anywhere you want.

Jul

7

SkyBlueCanvas SiteVars Plugin

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I have created a new plugin for SkyBlueCanvas that adds the ability to dynamically insert the values of properties of the site and page objects within the content of articles or from within the HTML of the site templates. The name of the new plugin is SiteVars and I think this is one of the coolest features to date.

Jun

16

Displaying Banner Ads

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SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight CMS comes with the ability to easily display banner ads on your site. This is achieved via the Plugin API and the ads plugin that comes with the SkyBlueCanvas source code. In this article I give you step-by-step instructions to help set up banner ads on your SkyBlueCanvas site.

Jun

14

SkyBlueCanvas Plugin Example

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Plugin Method No. 1
SkyBlueCanvas has a very flexible yet simple plugin API. Actually, it has 2 plugin APIs for greater flexibility. The first API is almost identical to the API used by Wordpress and Joomla – both of which use the Observer design pattern.
Calling an Observer plugin in SkyBlueCanvas is simple. Create a file [...]