[geeklog-users] New user help

[Tony Bibbs]

bruce at trianglewebhosting.biz wrote:


> 1)  Can I and how do I setup or change the dimensions of the 

> photograph that one

> can upload with their profile?  Well, I know I can because I uploaded one

> pic to the main site at http://www.geeklog.net when I registered 

> there.  My

> site didn't allow any photo larger then 96X96.


This is set in config.php.  You should really read everything in that 
file once.


> 2)  Can I allow visitors and myself to have photographs that do not 

> get reduced to

> a thumbnail size? 


No, this is a space conversation issue.  If you don't want to have a 
thumbnail, you can set the dimensions to be larger


> 3)  Can I make certain stories available for anonymous visitors and 

> others only for

> registered users? 


Yes.  The permissions system is Geeklog is fairly unique to open source 
CMS (though others are adding this sort of stuff)


> I know I can do the second part but if I had certain blogs that I 

> wanted to

> share with visitors or other content and I just wanted to give someone 

> a link is that possible?

> I had in mind a writer's CMS setup where people one can get published, 

> this is on another proprietary system but the person can send the link 

> to their publication to a friend or anyone.


Uh, most themes include the "email story to a friend concept".  Some 
have even started to include a link to the actual story as well so it 
can be easily copied and pasted into an email.  All this stuff is 
possible out-of-the-box.


> 4) I accepted one of the default news feeds that one gets with an 

> install.  It doesn't seem clear how to include the content of a 

> newsfeed into the site.  Even going to the geeklog.net site and 

> clicking on RSS, RDF, XML Feeds shows a list of a few but it seems 

> like you can include the content of an article without taking a person 

> away from the site. 


First, read the manual: http://www.geeklog.net/docs.  The RSS/RDF/XML 
page is just a resource to get people started with including syndicated 
content within their Geeklog system.  If you are hoping to include the 
content outside of a block (i.e. as a true Geeklog story) that concept 
isn't supported.


> Clicking on the .rss file does nothing.  Clicking on the link takes 

> one away from the page instead of having the news included in the 

> site.  Perhaps one can have the content of the story open into a block 

> on the site?  Maybe?   or open a new window with a target="_blank" 

> html tag.  I suppose that would work if the link was done right.


This isn't currently supported.  Add this as a feature request on 
http://project.geeklog.net

--Tony