Blogging with Pluskit

[Vinnieweaver2 (Lawrence Diggs)]

I was expecting to see a picture here. I have tested on the two pages here with the same negative results. Can anyone spot my mistake?
Never mind, I see I had not addedPlusKit into this new test site.

[Vinnieweaver2 (Lawrence Diggs)]

I have that stack. The footer works for me,but I can’t get anything to show up in the side bar.

[chet]

3 questions:

1. can you publish and share a link?
2. in the Houdini stack setup, have you selected “sidebar?”
3. the solution may vary by theme. Is that the theme your site will ultimately use?

[Vinnieweaver2 (Lawrence Diggs)]

http://vinegarman.com/armadillo_tester/

If you click and enlarge the images you will see side bar is selected. The footer works as expected. I have not tested the others.

I will not use that theme. I didn’t know it was theme dependent. Did I miss that in the sales materials ?

[chet]

Oh shoot.

Ok, I use PlusKit/Houdini to put the sidebar onto the RW standard blog plugin page. The reason I asked about the theme is that different developers can sometimes call the sidebar something different in the code, which can make a difference when you’re trying a modification or stack placement.

I don’t personally use Armadillo and so I don’t think that I can be of much help. Sorry to get your hopes up

My best advice, if no one else pops in, would be just to email Jonathan directly.

[Vinnieweaver2 (Lawrence Diggs)]

Thanks. Houdini actually comes from Joe Workman’s group. I did a shout out to them and am waiting. Thanks again.

[Jaden (Mark)]

I am trying to import stacks into my RW Blog page using the newly released plus kit4 and it’s not working. I’m looking for some advice here.

What I want to do is take an extra content stack from a page titled “Untitled Page 2”, loaded with Cinema Slider slides and import it into the Extra Content area 2 of my blog page. I’m using the “Sweety” theme. The Extra content area 2 is the banner area in the header section.

I’ve tried inputting the following code into the sidebar of the blog page, <div id="myExtraContent2"@import((Untitled Page 2))</div> and applied ignore formatting and even cleared it, but to no avail.

I realize that using pluskit4 with the blog page is ‘bad’ but am hoping that just trying to fill EC2 would be simple enough that it wouldn’t mess up pluskit4. I just want to know if it works or should work.
Am I doing this all wrong?
Thanks for Listening!

[jabostick (Jason Bostick)]

I’m not super familiar with PlusKit (and to each their own if they want to experiment) but if the developer has an ‘X’ and the word ‘Bad’ beside what you’re trying to do, I’d think you’re potentially just asking for trouble to do it anyway (whether that be now or down the road).
https://discourse-cdn-sjc1.com/business5/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/2X/d/dd329390f2c535543321ae087aa39c805a899b06.jpg

(PS - I hope that doesn’t come across as condescending, I don’t intend it to)

[Jaden (Mark)]

No worries jabostick and thanks. But, I had to try!

[isaiah (Isaiah Carew)]

“I am trying to import stacks”

I strongly urge people to never import a Stacks page anywhere. It can be done, with a lot of caution, in very specific cases, with simple content… but mostly it only leads to headache and is why it’s disabled by default.

Stacks pages have page structures, javascript, extra CSS, and may include files and even run php before the page loads. PlusKit is able to pick up many of those things, but not all them. Some pages can integrate some of those things, but not all of them. This means that there are many things you can put on a stacks page – that will break if you import them into another page.

Instead: try going in the other direction. Find a stack that allows you to add the specific content into a Stacks page – Stacks pages are designed to be very tolerant to many types of content – and have built-in firewalls to help those different kinds of content share one page.

There are a lot of great blog stacks out there. Check out this page from @joeworkman that lists a bunch of the different options (a lot of them from his competitors – nice!)

Can I use a blog with Foundation?

[Jaden (Mark)]

Thanks isaiah, but it worked… using this fellow’s example. Brilliant!

Manipulating the Blog Plugin in RW7

I use the RW blog plugin and display stacks on the page. Here’s how I do it. URL: www.chetjcollins.com Theme: Writer by NCD Addons: Stacks 3, Houdini by JW (Teleporter would work, too), PlusKit Steps: Add PlusKit page to RW project Create separate Stacks page using Houdini to dictate placement of desired stacks Use @import statement to bring stacks onto the plugin page Smile On my blog, I import the sidebar content on top of and below the blog plugin archives/categories/tags/rss as well a…

[Jaden (Mark)]

Crap… worked fine till I exported/Published. Keeps crashing. Oh well.

[isaiah (Isaiah Carew)]

@Jaden

I’ve tried inputting the following code into the sidebar of the blog page, <div id=“myExtraContent2”@import((Untitled Page 2))</div> and applied ignore formatting and even cleared it, but to no avail.

If you’re interested there is a beta that corrects 3 of the most common causes of crashing during publishing. It would help a lot if you gave it a test.

We keep our beta things over on http://slack.yourhead.com

Isaiah

[Jaden (Mark)]

I updated to the latest betas of stacks and Pluskit 4 and Boom! it works! IT WORKS!!!

Thanks Isaiah!!!