# Poster stack: some praise **URL:** \ **Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\ **Created:** [January 7, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948 "2018-01-07T13:51:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mathew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mathew/32/2771_2.png) [@Mathew](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Mathew)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/1 "2018-01-07T13:51:42Z")
This is a short post to praise the Poster stack: [Poster Stack: Multi-Purpose Content Stack](https://instacks.com/posterstack/) If you want to create a blog-style page and have a need for CMS solutions then Poster is **not** for you. There’s other products for that: Armadillo, Go CMS, Total CMS, Pulse and others. However, if you want to create a stylish blog page and want to do so from within RapidWeaver then Poster seems, by far, the best solution. Let me count some of the benefits: 1. It allows you to fully use your stack library. Have an image/gallery stack you want to use in a blog post? Not a problem with Poster as it is “stack-driven”. Have a table stack you want to use? Again, not a problem. 2. Recently, Poster added a **featured item** option. This makes the top post stand out a bit. See screenshot below. 3. I’ve used Poster for about 6 months, but in relatively light usage for course websites. I’m creating a couple new courses where my usage of Poster is much more intense. I was a little frustrated organizationally as there did not seem to be a way to have draft items: items “ready to go” but that would not show up on the blog yet. … oops, I was wrong. Is should have noticed this before but there’s a very nice tick-box to designate an item “draft”. As important, when that draft tick-box is activated a nice green pencil icon shows up on the relevant posts. Visually it makes is super simple to see which items are published, which are drafts. 4. I was using the “hide” feature of stacks a lot so I can easily scroll posts in my Poster stack. The problem was I could not tell what each post was about once I hid them. Again, I wished Poster had some sort of collapse feature. And … once again … I was wrong. There’s another tick-box for “hide content in edit mode”. When I use this option all the content is hidden **except** for the title of the post. Perfect! In short, even though I’ve been using Poster for 6+ months, I’ve come to appreciate it more and more over time. Lots of nice little features that make a big difference. I can’t provide a link to my course website: it’s password protected. Instead I provide one screenshot of my Poster front page area. ![Poster-screen-shot](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/2X/5/508fea6733cc4b45859e73538292ffa070d9b081.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![robbeattie](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/robbeattie/32/78_2.png) [@robbeattie](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/robbeattie)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/2 "2018-01-07T15:04:23Z")
Nice. You’ve inspired me to look at Poster again for some news pages I need to create. Rob ---
**Author:** ![Mathew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mathew/32/2771_2.png) [@Mathew](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Mathew)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/3 "2018-01-08T00:52:45Z")
Someone asked me (via private message) to create a tutorial. This is a “quickie” in terms of preparation. 21 minutes long. I hope this is helpful to some, but I definitely left some details out. There’s a lot more good detail at @instacks web page where you can find out more details. https://player.vimeo.com/video/250050126?app_id=122963 ---
**Author:** ![TechBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@TechBill](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/TechBill)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/4 "2018-01-08T01:25:41Z")
Do you have in on YouTube too? ---
**Author:** ![teefers](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/teefers/32/8173_2.png) [@teefers](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/teefers)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 3:41am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/5 "2018-01-08T03:41:56Z")
It’s on Vimeo, just click the Vimeo logo above. ---
**Author:** ![TechBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@TechBill](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/TechBill)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 5:30am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/6 "2018-01-08T05:30:50Z")
I am Deaf. The YouTube will try to auto generate subtitle from video of the voice is clear That why I asked if there a copy on YouTube ---
**Author:** ![Mathew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mathew/32/2771_2.png) [@Mathew](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Mathew)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/7 "2018-01-08T13:20:39Z")
I am trying to put on YouTube. But since the video is longer than 15 minutes, YouTube wants some extra verification from me. I provided my phone number but they never successfully texted me the verification code to use. Thus … I may not be able to upload. Today is a very busy day and I don’t have time to deal with stuff that doesn’t work (YouTube extra steps). If they do come through the video will be posted. But, if they don’t, I don’t have the time to do follow up with them. ---
**Author:** ![TechBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@TechBill](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/TechBill)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/8 "2018-01-08T14:16:17Z")
Don’t give up! 🙂 Do it for us handicapped people! ---
**Author:** ![Mathew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mathew/32/2771_2.png) [@Mathew](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Mathew)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/9 "2018-01-08T14:25:40Z")
All finally worked. Here’s the YouTube link: ---
**Author:** ![instacks](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/instacks/32/23339_2.png) [@instacks](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/instacks)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/10 "2018-01-08T14:57:07Z")
Thank you so much Mathew for your efforts. Clearly to see that you are a great teacher. Will include the video into my tutorial page. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![TechBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@TechBill](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/TechBill)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/11 "2018-01-08T15:54:03Z")
Thank you for your patience! ---
**Author:** ![Mathew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mathew/32/2771_2.png) [@Mathew](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Mathew)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/12 "2018-01-08T15:59:03Z")
Many thanks for the kind words! Please use the video in any way you think will be helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Mathew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mathew/32/2771_2.png) [@Mathew](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Mathew)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/13 "2018-01-08T16:00:01Z")
Fortunately I think signing up for this “over 15 minutes” permission is a one time thing. In the future the process should be much simpler. I may forget again as I use Vimeo a lot, but with a reminder I’ll be glad to YouTube it as well. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/system/32/25301_2.png) [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/poster-stack-some-praise/17948/14 "2018-01-14T16:00:24Z")
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