SB Base 1.1

[Nick]

SB Base (Social Bookmarking Base)
Version: 1.1
Author: Nick Ramsay
Created: 2009/12/16
Last Updated: 2010/05/14
Tested on: Hotaru 1.2.0
Plugins Required: None
Plug & Play: Yes
Supported: Yes

This plugin is no longer used, and hasn't been since Hotaru 1.2. Please use the Bookmarking plugin instead.

Description
This plugin is the base of a social bookmarking website, providing the "list" and "post" templates to display news summaries and individual news articles.

Instructions
1. Upload the "sb_base" folder to your plugins folder.
2. Install it from Plugin Management in Admin.
3. Edit settings in Admin -> SB Base

Revision History
v.1.1 2010/05/14 - Nick - Fix for search results' RSS feed
v.1.0 2010/05/07 - Nick - Fixes for better caching
v.1.0 2010/04/14 - Nick - Changes to enable home page overriding
v.0.9 2010/03/27 - Nick - 1 & 3 month options for post archiving, plus reorganization of post RSS methods
v.0.8 2010/03/24 - Nick - Bug fix for Upcoming RSS and a new plugin hook before the RSS forwarding redirect.
v.0.7 2010/03/15 - Nick - Option to redirect RSS feeds through your site to their sources [courtesy of Gunaxin.com]
v.0.6 2010/03/13 - Nick - Lists ranked by vote are now ranked first by vote, second by recency
v.0.5 2010/02/26 - Nick - Post filters hidden from user pages (#1243); Added profile navigation link
v.0.4 2010/02/23 - Nick - Bug fix for user RSS feed, and showing messages above posts
v.0.3 2010/02/21 - Nick - Bug fixes, cleaner list template and new "sb_no_posts" template
v.0.2 2010/02/20 - Nick - Code changes for pagination
v.0.1 2009/12/16 - Nick - Released first version

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[Nick]

Updated to version 0.3. If you have a custom sb_list.php template, you'll have to update your template again because I've simplified pagination (again). See the changes here:

http://my-trac.assembla.com/HotaruCM...set/1204#file3

[Nick]

Updated: v.0.4 2010/02/23 - Nick - Bug fix for user RSS feed, and showing messages above posts

[Nick]

Updated: v.0.5 2010/02/26 - Nick - Post filters hidden from user pages (#1243); Added profile navigation link.

Edit: I added a quick fix for breadcrumbs to the 0.5 zip a couple of hours after posting it.

[JonH]

Here's a possible SEO benefit with the <h1> tag:
On the default theme the story page's <h1> tag is on the site name (in header.php), which works good for the home page but the story page i.e. sb_post.php, the <h1> tag would be more SEO friendly if it was on the story title.

The part I'm not sure of is how to do a "if ($h->post)" or something like that as a conditional statement to switch the h1 tag over to the story title on story pages...Is this possible?
A few CSS tweaks would keep everything looking the same since Google doesn't crawl style sheets.

[Nick]

The part I'm not sure of is how to do a "if ($h->post)" or something like that as a conditional statement

Try

if ($h->pageType == 'post') {
    // stuff
} 

[JonH]

Try

if ($h->pageType == 'post') {
    // stuff
} 

Ooh. Yep that worked. Found it in the Docs I should check my own sig.
Here's the hack.

[Nick]

Updated: v.0.6 2010/03/13 - Nick - Lists ranked by vote are now ranked first by vote, second by recency. No template/css/language updates necessary.

[Nick]

Updated: v.0.7 2010/03/15 - Nick - Added option to redirect RSS feeds through your site to their sources. No template/css/language updates necessary.

This was custom work which has kindly been donated back to the Hotaru community by Gunaxin.com - Stuff for Guys.

[Gunaxin]

Updated: v.0.6 2010/03/13 - Nick - Lists ranked by vote are now ranked first by vote, second by recency. No template/css/language updates necessary.

Nick,
I was wondering if you could expand on this some. I'm using the Up/Down voting, and once something hits the front page, the sorting on the home page is always based on Date (newest at the top) and not based on votes at all. Is this supposed to be the case?

Also in the up/down voting settings, it says 5 votes to make the page, but things are making it with only one vote. I had changed the setting in the normal voting plugin to 1 before I disabled it and enabled this plugin. So I am guessing it is using that setting?

Last thing is Popular / Upcoming / Latest.
Popular shows me the front page, and seems to work, however as I noted above, they are just sorted by date. Upcoming shows me nothing, and latest shows me 2 items that have not made the front page (from before I changed the threshold). Based on the content I am seeing each on those pages, it seems like they are all switched. Popular is showing me Latest, Upcoming is showing me Popular, and Latest is showing me Upcoming. Is this something I did wrong, or am I misunderstanding the functionality?