[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