free geoip Browse by Tags - Jayson's Blog - jaysonKnight.com
jaysonKnight.com
Welcome to my corner of the internet
Jayson's Blog » All Tags » CS Tidbits (RSS)

Browse by Tags

  • CS Tidbit #28: Creating Nested Navigation Bar Items

    In my previous CS Tidbit, I outlined how to add an archive page to your blogs to free up some sidebar real estate while still giving readers access to our post history. Of course, now that we have this in place, how do we let our readers know where it is? In the past, adding links to one of the standard sidebar widgets meant manually adding entries to various skin files, and doing it in each theme on our site. There was also really no way to control security on the links either without adding some...

  • CS Tidbits #27: Add An Archive Page For Blogs

    It's been a while since I've posted any CS Tidbits, but now that Community Server 2008.5 has been released, it's time to get back in gear and post some tips and tricks that I'm learning as I get to know this new release. If you're like me and have been blogging for a non-trivial amount of time (over 5 years in my case), an archived list view of your posts starts to look a bit unwieldy. CS 2008.5 does ship with an archive widget to display in your blog's sidebar, however this...
    Filed under:

  • CS Tidbits #26 -- Harness The Power Of Config File Overrides

    Now that Community Server 2007 has been released, it's time to fire up the CS Tidbits category again and see what I can come up with. Coming tidbits will still be geared towards site admins (making your site easier to use, simple tweaks and additions, etc), but I'll also go into some details about Chameleon, CS's long awaited skinning engine overhaul. Today's tidbit is one of the most commonly requested scenarios ( I've covered it before ): "I want to add a new menu tab/add...
    Filed under:

  • CS Tidbits #25: Disable Stale Spam Comment Auditing

    I've been in the process of building some Community Server add-ins lately (namely a couple of Control Panel add-ins) and stumbled across today's tidbit: Comments that are deemed as spam (they have accrued enough points to be considered as such) and are also flagged as stale (they've been sitting in your database for x number of days) are cleaned up on a regular basis by the DeleteStaleSpamComments job which runs every x number of days that you configure it to fire. There are a couple of issues with...
    Filed under:

  • CS Tidbits #24: Aggregate Your Site's Aggregates

    This question came up over on the CS.org forums recently: "Is there a 'super' aggregate for all feeds in a Community Server installation?" The short answer is no, however with the introduction of Content Mirroring in the 2.1 release, the somewhat longer answer is yes...but it isn't apparent at first glance. What you'll need to do is create a new Mirrored Content Section to house your site's existing syndication feeds (in essence what you're doing is combining all of your feeds into a single section...

  • CS Tidbits #23: Tweak Your Mirrored Content Job

    Today's tidbit is another easy one to implement that would otherwise go unnoticed unless you were experiencing the same issues that some of the CS MVPs were having on our dedicated box. Short version: If you have more than a trivial number of feeds defined for a mirrored content section (in my case, I have over 50), the RollerBlogUpdater job can bog down your system when it kicks off, i.e. peg the processor at 100% and bump memory up a couple dozen megs when it runs. Does this happen in all instances...
    Filed under:

  • CS Tidbits #22: Tame That Tag Cloud

    Rob Howard recently posted about an interesting topic: Should tags in CS be moderated . My opinion on that is outside the realm of today's tidbit (though I'll give you a hint...I think options are always a good thing), but there is a sort of band-aid solution that can be applied in the interim if site admins notice their tag clouds spiraling rapidly out of control which can happen in one of 2 scenarios: Users are abusing tags, or you have a blog that hosts mirrored content from a large number of...
    Filed under:

  • CS Tidbits #21: Exploring The CS Spam Blocker

    Blog spam...it's the new (well, not so new) scourge of the internet. On my site alone I get several hundred attempts a day from spammers wanting to leave their garbage on my blog. Fortunately Community Server ships with a built-in spam blocking tool; unfortunately it's not very well documented and can be a bit vague to new users/site admins. In this Tidbit I'll attempt to clear up any ambiguity about the Spam Blocker and demonstrate how to get it configured properly so that site admins can (hopefully...
    Filed under:

  • CS Tidbits #20: Add Basic Stats To Your Blog

    I pulled a Ken in that I wrote a basic BlogStats control quite a while back and simply forgot about it, and it actually fits perfectly into my current series of CS Tidbits. So I busted it out of Vault and cleaned it up a bit and added it to my current (soon to be published) CS Custom Controls project. In a nutshell it's a simple control that can be dropped onto any of your individual blog's skin files to get some basic posting information such as is displayed in the image on the left. Very basic...

  • CS Tidbits #19: Enable Tag Cloud Topic Count

    No lengthy screencasts today, just a quick and easy way to add an enhancement to your site that I believe users will appreciate. I'm all about numbers, I don't know why. I like to see how many posts a blogger has made to their site, how many comments have been made, etc. It's a useful barometer (for me at least) so see if it's an active blog or not, i.e. if someone has made a bazillion posts but only has 5 comments, then something is obviously wrong. If there are only 50 posts but it has a bazillion...
    Filed under:
1 2 3 Next >

Copyright © :: JaysonKnight.com
External Content © :: Respective Authors

Terms of Service/Privacy Policy