CaptJeff

HI,

How do I know when you have answered me?  I will be honest I do not know how this works and I am unclear about the Message, private, public stuff.  In fact I am leaving this page open on my computer because I am unsure how to navigate back here.

Do I follow you?  Or do I follow this post? or add to favorites?  I am confused why this looks so different than my own forum.

Jeff

I won't clog up your new topic that you've made, but what is your aim for the forums and what are you looking to do?

Learn how to use the IP Contact thing.

Why does my Add media link not work?

How do I see a page template?

I have a link on my media page that takes me to the Articles page. How do I make a link to put on the articles page that takes someone to the Media page.?

Why do my category links not function?

When I create a new Media Category where is that page?  It does not show up in the pages listings.

What are all these database templates?  How do they work?  Are they something you can see?  What hooks them to the pages?
I look at the help menues and it says stuff like this.

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When you edit content in IP.Content, whether it be blocks, templates or pages, there are many built in tags that you will need to or want to utilize in order to generate the content appropriately. Blocks have variables containing data that may be of use to your users. Page templates have variables that perform important functions, such as inserting the page title or marking where the page content should be displayed. It is nearly impossible to simply remember every variable that can be utilized in your pages and templates.

IP.Content features a template tag help panel that you can use to alleviate this problem. The panel can be minimized if you don't need it (and your preference is remembered so you won't have to minimize it each time you load a new template to edit). The panel is tabbed, providing you with various tag options based on the specific content you are editing. Database templates will show you the database tags you will need to use, while blocks will show you the variables being passed into the block template. You are able navigate some of the tabs when necessary in order to better determine the appropriate variables for the specific area you are editing.

What is Content?  Pages? Templates?  So the first sentance "When you edit content" and I am alreay lost..  I see exactly what they say and when you say "Edit content in Content" it just screws my mind up.

I am not worried about you cloging anything because I do nto even know what that means.

I need a very kind developer who would like to take me under thier wing and walk me around the Content category inside the CP and tell me in english what all that stuff does because its like putting a homeless person in the cocpit of a DC-10.  Lots of cool buttons and switches but no clue what they do and simply not possible to use them for they can actually do.  Can not even get the engines started let alone fly the plane.

Thanks for trying.

Jeff

See I did not even know you had made a comment on my post because I did not mark follow and then went back to ckeck follow and got sixteen options and no idea if I did it write.