What's the best way to sponsor Drigg?
Posted April 12th, 2008 by admin
Hi,
Drigg is a lot of work. Kevin was a godsend, literally. However, the problem remain: what's the best way to sponsor Drigg?
We have a few ideas in the pipeline. Mind you, we don't _need_ sponsorship to develop Drigg. The current codebase is solid and easy to understand, and there are already two more people familiar with its code. So, if I quit tomorrow, the project would slow down - especially initially - but eventually it will pick up again.
However, knowing that I am paid at least a little bit for the work I put in would be nice.
Drigg's 24 hour rewrite complete
Posted April 10th, 2008 by admin
Hi,
Well, it's not quite a rewrite, but the headline got your attention :-D
Basically, Drigg had become a bit of a monster: a 7000 line module, which did pretty much everything - and that was far too much.
I worked all day today (a nice 14 hours, no breaks) to convert the monster into 12 self-contained modules. Drigg makes a _lot_ more sense now; things can be fixed and improved much, much more easily. The codebase looks _very_ different now!
Kevin Mathis joins Drigg development
Posted April 9th, 2008 by admin
Hi,
It's finally happening. More (MUCH needed) developers are finally joining Drigg.
Kevin Mathis is a very skilled programmer who is now officially a Drigg developer. He was granted CVS access last week, and has already started to contribute considerably to the project.
I want to say:
* Thank you Kevin, from me and the community as a whole
* Welcome!
IMPORTANT: Tony Mobily taking 2 weeks off!
Posted March 7th, 2008 by admin
Drigg's developer, Tony Mobily, is taking 2 weeks off after nearly 4 months of continuous development. He will only fix urgent bugs and problems. So, he will not be available from Monday, 10th of March to Sunday, 23rd of March. Feature requests will be unanswered. Tony expects to start working of feature requests when he's back.
Drigg users: please try and help Drigg newbies in the forums. Tony won't be here, and your help at this point will be much appreciated and invaluable.
How to Set Up the RSS Feed Importer
Posted February 24th, 2008 by babblin5
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This tutorial explains how to import news from RSS sources straight into Drigg.
- Go to Admin>Build>Modules
- Enable the Drupal module News Aggregator.
- Enable the Drigg RSS Feed Importer.
- Go to Administer>By Module>Drigg RSS Feeder>Drigg RSS Module General Settings.
- Set the time in seconds which will be used to randomly place scoops into your content.
Add any keywords which will be used to match to imported RSS feed stories, comma seperated, with NO SPACES.
Go to Administer>By Module>Aggregator>News Aggregator. You will see List, Add Category, Add Feed, Settings tabs.
New Drigg released! (1.15)
Posted February 18th, 2008 by admin
Hi,
I've just released the new version of Drigg.
In a nutshell:
* It now uses Drupal 5.7 (yay!)
* It includes the undocumented RSS importer. This had never been used in a production site. Please give it a test and let me knog
* TONS of new youtube-like formats (metacafe, for example [yes, I am a fan of Metacafe])
* Completely new karma infrastructure. This is actually huge... Drigg now has a plug-in architecture for Karma. Now for example it's possible to set the system so that anybody who votes gets 0.1 karma points.
* Bug fixes
So... go get it :-D Remember that if you upgrade you will need to reconfigure the User Karma module.
This was done in about 45 hours in 3 days (Saturday, Sunday and Monday).
Tutorials section now open!
Posted February 13th, 2008 by bohimt
Tony and I are pleased to announced the tutorials section! Visit it and check it out! It will be updated daily!
All the tutorials will be managed by me, Justin Germain, or bohimt.
If you have any questions or tutorial requests please feel free to drop them in the tutorials forum.
Thanks, and happy theming!
Justin
Editing Properties of Blocks
Posted February 13th, 2008 by bohimt
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FILES: page.tpl.php, css/blocks.css
Step 1
Open up your page.tpl.php and blocks.css files.
Step 2
Look at our page.tpl.php
You will notice that all of the elements on the page are inside a div tag called “container”. All elements are place within this div. It’s just something to help you keep the page all neat and organized. Next, you need to figure out which blocks you wish modify. The default Drigg template is setup in 3 columns or 3 content blocks. They are all under one universal div called “content”.
Each one has class and id attributes set accordling to each div, to recognize each. Theres left, center, and right content columns, or
Centering your entire site
Posted February 12th, 2008 by bohimt
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FILES: css/base.css
Step 1
Open up your base.css file.
Step 2
You are then presented with this. Of course theres more, but this is all we will be working with! Next, just simply add the style rule “text-align:center;” to your file, anywhere between the brackets in your body style as shown below. This just tells the server to center all the text in the body of the website. Of course it’s not text we are trying to center, its the container, but it recognizes it as a text element, and thus centers it.
TUTORIAL: Centering entire site
Posted February 11th, 2008 by bohimt
This is the first tutorial, one of many I will start writing to help you guys get better at your Drigg theming.
Please note, that I will make all of these tutorials available on my website JustinGermain.com once I get a section done up for them.
Also, this tutorial might slack a little, as I'm up late working on some projects of my own, and I have to get up early. But feel free to message me or ask me any questions you might have on this thread!
Thanks, and happy theming!
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LEVEL: Beginner
FILES: css/base.css
