The Old Man

File Name: Tech - Custom Blog Header
File Submitter: The Old Man
File Submitted: 07 Nov 2008
File Category: IP.Blog Headers

Importing the Customer Blog Header

It looks complicated but its actually quite easy. I have exported this header from my own AdminCP, but because the export process in IP Blog v1.4.x hard codes the path to the blog folder in the XML file, you will need to make 2 simple text edits to the XML blog header file, and one final edit in the AdminCP Blog settings after importing.

This is so that when you import the XML file into your own Blog, it will then correctly point to folders and font on your own server, and not mine!


Part 1 - Preparing the XML file.

First download the file and browse to where you download it.
Open the file with Notepad, Dreamweaver or similar and change both the 2 instances of the path, which will both look like this:

<path>/home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/blog/headers</path>

Carefully change them both to whatever the path is to your own blog installation. Make sure to do both, as one is for the header image, and the second is for the tile image! Make sure not to change anything else whatsoever, or the graphic image will be corrupt.


TIP. If you are not sure of the correct path to your blog installation, you can find it by navigating to the Blog Settings page in your Admin CP, and scrolling down to Attachment Settings > Upload directory to deduce the path to your blog.

For example, my own path displays as /home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/uploads so therefore I can tell that the path I would use in the XML file is:
/home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/blog/headers.



Part 2 - Import the XML file.

Now go to your Invision Power Board and navigate to:
ACP -> COMPONENTS -> IP.Blog -> Customization -> Configure Custom Header Options -> Import XML Header File

Import the XML file you just edited. If you got the path correct to your blog, you'll now see the new header is available for use!



Part 3 - Edit the path to your font folder.

Thanks to AndyF for the tip that the font setting also needs updating in your settings!

Open the menu button at the side of your newly imported header image and select Edit Header.

Look under FONT where it will likely say /home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/style_images/fonts/streetcornerbold.ttf

Change the path to your font folder on your server, just like you did before when you edited the XML file.


Your new blog header is now ready to use in your blogs!

Click here to download this file

File Name: Fern - Custom Blog Header
File Submitter: The Old Man
File Submitted: 07 Nov 2008
File Category: IP.Blog Headers

Importing the Customer Blog Header

It looks complicated but its actually quite easy. I have exported this header from my own AdminCP, but because the export process in IP Blog v1.4.x hard codes the path to the blog folder in the XML file, you will need to make 2 simple text edits to the XML blog header file, and one final edit in the AdminCP Blog settings after importing.

This is so that when you import the XML file into your own Blog, it will then correctly point to folders and font on your own server, and not mine!


Part 1 - Preparing the XML file.

First download the file and browse to where you download it.
Open the file with Notepad, Dreamweaver or similar and change both the 2 instances of the path, which will both look like this:

<path>/home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/blog/headers</path>

Carefully change them both to whatever the path is to your own blog installation. Make sure to do both, as one is for the header image, and the second is for the tile image! Make sure not to change anything else whatsoever, or the graphic image will be corrupt.


TIP. If you are not sure of the correct path to your blog installation, you can find it by navigating to the Blog Settings page in your Admin CP, and scrolling down to Attachment Settings > Upload directory to deduce the path to your blog.

For example, my own path displays as /home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/uploads so therefore I can tell that the path I would use in the XML file is:
/home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/blog/headers.



Part 2 - Import the XML file.

Now go to your Invision Power Board and navigate to:
ACP -> COMPONENTS -> IP.Blog -> Customization -> Configure Custom Header Options -> Import XML Header File

Import the XML file you just edited. If you got the path correct to your blog, you'll now see the new header is available for use!



Part 3 - Edit the path to your font folder.

Thanks to AndyF for the tip that the font setting also needs updating in your settings!

Open the menu button at the side of your newly imported header image and select Edit Header.

Look under FONT where it will likely say /home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/style_images/fonts/streetcornerbold.ttf

Change the path to your font folder on your server, just like you did before when you edited the XML file.


Your new blog header is now ready to use in your blogs!

Click here to download this file

File Name: Space - Custom Blog Header
File Submitter: The Old Man
File Submitted: 07 Nov 2008
File Category: IP.Blog Headers

Importing the Customer Blog Header

It looks complicated but its actually quite easy. I have exported this header from my own AdminCP, but because the export process in IP Blog v1.4.x hard codes the path to the blog folder in the XML file, you will need to make 2 simple text edits to the XML blog header file, and one final edit in the AdminCP Blog settings after importing.

This is so that when you import the XML file into your own Blog, it will then correctly point to folders and font on your own server, and not mine!


Part 1 - Preparing the XML file.

First download the file and browse to where you download it.
Open the file with Notepad, Dreamweaver or similar and change both the 2 instances of the path, which will both look like this:

<path>/home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/blog/headers</path>

Carefully change them both to whatever the path is to your own blog installation. Make sure to do both, as one is for the header image, and the second is for the tile image! Make sure not to change anything else whatsoever, or the graphic image will be corrupt.


TIP. If you are not sure of the correct path to your blog installation, you can find it by navigating to the Blog Settings page in your Admin CP, and scrolling down to Attachment Settings > Upload directory to deduce the path to your blog.

For example, my own path displays as /home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/uploads so therefore I can tell that the path I would use in the XML file is:
/home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/blog/headers.



Part 2 - Import the XML file.

Now go to your Invision Power Board and navigate to:
ACP -> COMPONENTS -> IP.Blog -> Customization -> Configure Custom Header Options -> Import XML Header File

Import the XML file you just edited. If you got the path correct to your blog, you'll now see the new header is available for use!



Part 3 - Edit the path to your font folder.

Thanks to AndyF for the tip that the font setting also needs updating in your settings!

Open the menu button at the side of your newly imported header image and select Edit Header.

Look under FONT where it will likely say /home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/style_images/fonts/streetcornerbold.ttf

Change the path to your font folder on your server, just like you did before when you edited the XML file.


Your new blog header is now ready to use in your blogs!

Click here to download this file

File Name: Tech 2 - Custom Blog Header
File Submitter: The Old Man
File Submitted: 07 Nov 2008
File Category: IP.Blog Headers

Changes since original version
v1.1 13th Nov 08 - Swapped tile and header images over, to prevent drop down header selection menu being pushed off screen due to width of the preview image.


Importing the Customer Blog Header

It looks complicated but its actually quite easy. I have exported this header from my own AdminCP, but because the export process in IP Blog v1.4.x hard codes the path to the blog folder in the XML file, you will need to make 2 simple text edits to the XML blog header file, and one final edit in the AdminCP Blog settings after importing.

This is so that when you import the XML file into your own Blog, it will then correctly point to folders and font on your own server, and not mine!


Part 1 - Preparing the XML file.

First download the file and browse to where you download it.
Open the file with Notepad, Dreamweaver or similar and change both the 2 instances of the path, which will both look like this:

<path>/home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/blog/headers</path>

Carefully change them both to whatever the path is to your own blog installation. Make sure to do both, as one is for the header image, and the second is for the tile image! Make sure not to change anything else whatsoever, or the graphic image will be corrupt.


TIP. If you are not sure of the correct path to your blog installation, you can find it by navigating to the Blog Settings page in your Admin CP, and scrolling down to Attachment Settings > Upload directory to deduce the path to your blog.

For example, my own path displays as /home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/uploads so therefore I can tell that the path I would use in the XML file is:
/home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/blog/headers.



Part 2 - Import the XML file.

Now go to your Invision Power Board and navigate to:
ACP -> COMPONENTS -> IP.Blog -> Customization -> Configure Custom Header Options -> Import XML Header File

Import the XML file you just edited. If you got the path correct to your blog, you'll now see the new header is available for use!



Part 3 - Edit the path to your font folder.

Thanks to AndyF for the tip that the font setting also needs updating in your settings!

Open the menu button at the side of your newly imported header image and select Edit Header.

Look under FONT where it will likely say /home/jackal/public_html/millennium/tiwwa/style_images/fonts/streetcornerbold.ttf

Change the path to your font folder on your server, just like you did before when you edited the XML file.


Your new blog header is now ready to use in your blogs!

Click here to download this file

On the Manage Custom Profile Field Groups screen, could you please add the option to re-order the groups?

At the moment you can only edit, delete or add new groups, but you cannot re-order any you add like you can with the profile fields themselves!

"The real trick comes in with it not just being PM's to or from other people, it's now to/from inside of a conversation."

I honestly can't see the problem with this unless I'm missing the obvious (known to happen!). To my mind, the same logic that pulls the messages together to form the conversation on your screen/browser could be used to populate a PDF file of the conversation, or other format for that matter.


On a busy board, you could have the option to limit the user to downloading x amount of single conversations in PDF format per day instead of the entire Inbox of conversations at once, but I don't think that many people archive their PM's that often for it to be a problem.

Excellent Josh, that's all I can ask!

Am I the only one that thinks Clean Cut looks half finished?
The blue and black don't go well at all! The dark areas of Clean Cut and the black buttons are great, but contrast far too much with the light and blue areas.

I was hoping for a long time that IPS would include a second darker default skin with the IPB3 board to go with darker themed websites. I recall this was originally the plan, to sensibly include both light and dark default skins but somewhere along the road the idea got dropped.

If Clean Cut was a darker skin, it would be great for my site which is predominately black and I'm sure many others, full credit where its due to the author but at the moment it offers nothing really different from the default skin to make it at all worthwhile.

Hopefully this will make it into v3.0.3! :rolleyes: It drives me insane on an almost daily basis!

Thanks guys! Wolfie summed it up better than me!

"it(s) almost unnecessary to have signatures show in such a compressed group of participants."

I'd like to see the option for it to be collapsible and be able to easily choose if it is to be where it is now, below the forums or on the sidebar

Suggestion: Please add an AdminCP option to remove signatures when displaying PMs! They drive me nuts on my board when reading/scrolling through personal conversations.

I can see the need in forums where they work better, but in PM's I think signatures are too distracting!

+1

Seems like a good idea to me, allow admins to choose to display it horizontally or vertically.

I think XML/HTML would make a lot of sense, then the average non-technical minded members could open that inside their Office Word/Excel program or browser to view their messages, right?

I know I've suggested this before as a "Download topic" idea and people said it would be too resource intensive, but PDF would be the obvious choice to me.

So many people have the reader installed, you can get open source php pdf libraries to create pdfs from the server (if installed). How often do people archive their PM's anyway (not often I bet), and as you could set a "Export as pdf limit" to say 2 times a day max per user, I don't think resouces would be an issue for such an obvious choice of format. Portable document format - makes sense to me but what to I know? :rolleyes:

Congratulations to everyone involved! Sterling work!

Thank you Mark, just copied your post into the personal notepad to help me remember!

"...calendar entries for members birthday's that the Board creates, are not included in the exported RSS feed, only events that you add yourself are."

I'm starting to wonder if this was a bug in IPBv2.3.x. Can anyone confirm that Birthday's show in the Calendar's RSS Feed in IPB3 or perhaps if there is an option to include them in the Calendar's RSS feed or not?

Many thanks, I've looked at the current Calendar Feed here and its empty but may not have been configured yet?

Come on guys! Stop the petty bickering! Its getting like a Digital Spy thread! :whistle:

When I mentioned the 7-8 second page execution time it was a serious enquiry because I remembered when this forum to IPB3.0 was upgraded it was very slow and it was suggested that it was because hundreds of 1000's of PM's etc were being converted to the new format and various other reasons. Invision were happy to see how the early beta board performed with lots of posts and members compared to the smaller preview board that was available. So I posted because we are now at RC1 looking at the footer, and it seemed just as sluggish as the early beta, for me at least and after a few visits at different times.

I have to say, its very quick at the moment, with times well under a second, so clearly its not a permanent thing. 'Nuff said. :rolleyes:

Great to see a RC, but its still so slow! 7.3866 sec when clicking on a topic to read it just now. I thought the slow speed was originally explained as being down to the content from IPB v2.3.x being converted to IPB3.0, but its still slow to me after all these weeks since this board was upgraded. Apologies if this has been explained elsewhere, I don't find chance to visit often and I'm assuming this forum is running on a very fast server. Also the signature box is still enabled by default but its hidden when using Fast Reply - grr!.

+1 from me also on the social and joinable groups. You can't get more sociable than a community, and a message board is a community.
This was recognised when Invision realised the social importance of the member profiles and improved them accordingly, member groups is a natural step in the same direction.
I really think improved 'social' options and functionality are a must and natural progression for IPB3.0.

Hi,
I've just been trying to work out why only 1 event was showing in my calendar's RSS feed despite the month being full of birthdays.
I realised that the calendar entries for members birthday's that the Board creates are not included in the exported RSS feed, only events that you add yourself are.

I think it should be an AdminCP option to included them or not.

For my own application, I was going to import the calendar's feed back in as topics to my birthday greeting forum. Having this done automatically reminds eveyone its a members birthday and nobody gets missed out! :)