Argh....darn forums for newbies
Getting tired of these quotes in my forums
do not know how to attach the photo. Anyone's assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Forum Thread
Forum
» Forum / Per page discussions
» Tuesday Rant XIV
This is the discussion related to the wiki page Tuesday Rant XIV.
If you use the Forum Template, you can change the appearance of threads. Just add a "files" button in an obvious place and you've solved your problem! :)
For example, on this page: http://editor.wikidot.com/thread:package-installer-used-to-create-the-forum, I have two buttons, one for "edit" and one for "files", as I've hidden the page options intentionally.
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
Wikidot: Official Documentation | Wikidot Discord server | NEW: Wikiroo, backup tool (in development)
(account deleted)I have two buttons, one for "edit" and one for "files", as I've hidden the page options intentionally.
Good idea! I think I may do this as well. It's always the simple things…
Argh…
Tired to be obliged to write
Duplicate of [/weneed:9 weneed:9]instead of this
Duplicate of [[[weneed:9]]]to see:
Duplicate of weneed:9
my Tuesday rant is that the other day when i was making a pretty nice CSS using firebug, when i copied it to put it on my website, firebug decided to copy so completely random theme to the clipboard instead of the one i was working on. so now i lost all my work :(
I wish I could link to an internal page on my WikiDot site and use some sort of keyword (maybe %%title%%) to put the page title (not the unix-name) as the link text. Sometimes my page titles are not the same as the unix-name and I'm having to type them in as the link text. A keyword for this seems logical. If this has been done already I haven't heard of it.
This can be done! :) Just do this:
[[[ pagename | ]]]Not typing any link text will automatically use the page's title instead :) Just remember to add the pipe | symbol in there
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
Wikidot: Official Documentation | Wikidot Discord server | NEW: Wikiroo, backup tool (in development)
I keep forgetting the aforementioned syntax for an internal page link and look up some other page. I wish that there was a button in the editor for this like we have for URL/Images etc.
Edit: I see that there is indeed a page link button. When did it appear? I must be going blind :-)
Suresh Govindarajan
http://sgovindarajan.wikidot.com
OMG! I didn't know that! Wow! Thanks!
James! I cannot believe it! YOU didn't know about this? Wow. So, actually there IS something I know and you don't know… :D I am so proud of myself… :P
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
I did not know this either; I assumed such a thing would develop a space as a link. This is very awesome!
EDIT: Well, there's my "antirant" for the day…
Timothy Foster - @tfAuroratide
Auroratide.com - Go here if you're nerdy like me
Wow, didn't realise you weren't aware of this James :) I'm as shocked as Brunhilda is!
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
Wikidot: Official Documentation | Wikidot Discord server | NEW: Wikiroo, backup tool (in development)
OMG! I didn't know that! Wow! Thanks!
Hmmm. Sounds like sarcasm to me but that's just how my British brain deciphers this sort of comment :)
Serious! He was being serious!
Lots of internet wars started just because there were too many exclamation marks.
A key to successful low-bandwidth communication is to filter out all emotional content and never take anything personally. But we all get it wrong regularly…
I also was almost certain that you were kidding. But maybe the Finnish and British brain are similar on that area. I just love the dry British humour: Black Adder, Men Behaving Badly and Keeping Up Appearances were absolutely hilarious. Sadly all they show today is reality-tv (I got enough reality in my own life…)
___TTT___/ http://www.trumpetexercises.net
(_|||_) \ - Janne
Well, I'm British and I didn't think you were being sarcastic, James. :-)
Ok, maybe the Finnish and British male brain are similar then…
___TTT___/ http://www.trumpetexercises.net
(_|||_) \ - Janne
Ok, maybe the Finnish and British male brain are similar then…
Well, I'm British (naturalized) and perhaps because I know James, the notion of sarcasm never even crossed my mind. Enthusiasm, and joy, yes.
Probably in this case we have Will thinking, "c'mon, James could not possibly not know about that, so he must have been sarcastic, yes, look at those exclamations, aha!"
Nationality and gender have nothing to do with it.
Sorry to be a bore. Was studying the psychology of developmental communication and emotional disorders last night. It's all! About! Exclamation! marks!
What's OMG for ?
gerdami,
Belgian kidder.
OMG = Oh My God
Usually used to emphasise shock… despite the religious reference, most people who use this phrase aren't talking about their debt to God… (geddit? "owe my God"…)
OK, so maybe 5 is OK for free accounts. But only 10 for Pro Lite? And 20 for Pro? Unlike other features, the membership limit on such sites are a "make-or-break" issue.
I think Pro Lite should get at least 15-20, and Pro 50-100. Or even more lenient than that.
If you want to create more sites, feel free to send me a PM :) I was given SuperGuru powers, which includes a limit of 1000 sites.
As long as your site isn't private… and you're not going to just leave it sitting there using up a domain name… I'd be happy to let you use one of my slots :)
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
Wikidot: Official Documentation | Wikidot Discord server | NEW: Wikiroo, backup tool (in development)
This isn't a site limit—it's the number of members you allowed to access your private wiki. Perhaps your sites are also allowed more members, but that's not the point. I just think a paying customer should be given a bit more for their money on this feature.
And if this were an "important" site, it would be best not to rely on the largesse of friends
But thanks for the offer!
I guess you've seen weened:30, one of mine.
I'd like to remove all limits on private wikis but the problem is they will get used for illicit purposes. So one option might be to increase membership size but reduce to almost zero the space for files.
OMG OMG OMG!
In forum comments and wiki pages, you can't have a space, or newline (or a bunch of them), as the first character.
If you do the following source code on a page:
JAMES
KANJOThe Wikidot Engine automatically removes the first space FROM THE SOURCE CODE !
WHY???
You may be wondering why this is a problem?
| This: | Transforms into this: |
|
|
| Which renders this: | Instead of this: |
KANJO |
> JAMES KANJO |
ARGH! WHY????
I just looked over the plans again — is there a limit on extra access to private sites? Because if not, or if it's set high, that would be an easy way to achieve 'increasing membership but reducing file relevance' — admin can set up site permissions so that extra-access users can write/edit pages on the site as readily as anyone else, but there's nothing you can do to let them view/use files as far as I've been able to tell. Admittedly I haven't explored this to much extent.
Edit: This was a reply to pieterh, not James. I think I started writing in the default box instead of actually hitting 'reply'!
On simple tables, it is impossible to do both an alignment AND title the cell.
You can do:
||~ Title||| Title |
|---|
or
||> Align right||
||Some test things to show off alignment||| Align right |
| Some test things to show off alignment |
but not both
||~ > Title aligned right||
||Some test things to show off alignment||| > Title aligned right |
|---|
| Some test things to show off alignment |
Timothy Foster - @tfAuroratide
Auroratide.com - Go here if you're nerdy like me
Unless I've misinterpreted what you want to do, this certainly seems possible to me:
||~ Title box ||
||> aligned right||
||> this line is also aligned right||
||> and so is this one ||
|| but this one isn't ||
||= centered text ||| Title box |
|---|
| aligned right |
| this line is also aligned right |
| and so is this one |
| but this one isn't |
| centered text |
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
I meant align the title to the right. (or left)
Timothy Foster - @tfAuroratide
Auroratide.com - Go here if you're nerdy like me
That wasn't clear from your post.
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
You could always add this to your custom CSS although it would affect all your simple tables:
table.wiki-content-table th {
text-align:right;
}Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Wrap the table in a classed div, and then set the CSS style only for that div's class.
[[div class="tableright"]]
||~ Table Header ||
|| Table Cell ||
[[/div]].tableright table.wiki-content-table th { text-align:right; }That'll keep it from affecting every table everywhere.
I don't like either of those solutions, because the point of the Wikidot Simple table is that its simple to change… you should be able to change alignment on a per-cell basis, and the above CSS solutions mean that ALL titles in the table are aligned left/right.
That wasn't clear from your post.
:-) It was clear to me, and I do agree that it's poor design to allow option A or option B but not options A and B, when they clearly make sense combined.
I'm making an issue for this.
I would not spend resources (for now) on these simple tables when we have the [[table]]s…
You made a point!
He made a good point actually. Why doesn't column span or row span work in the [[table]]s? It should work like so:
[[table class="wiki-content-table"]]
[[row]][[cell colspan="2" style="background-color: #EEE; text-align: center;"]]
**Silly**
[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[row]][[cell]]
James
[[/cell]][[cell]]
Kanjo
[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[/table]]Which would render:
| Silly | |
|---|---|
| James | Kanjo |
/forum/t-191941/tuesday-rant-xiv#post-