[plugin request] blog post cover

[vodka]

Hi, I would discuss this feature inspired by "Featured Images & Post Thumbnails" from wordpress.
This plugin allow a theme designer to make a nicer home page and/or blog page.

For exemple you can make a home page like this:

and your blog entry can look like this:



You can use the cover like a background, or like a big header, or like a small thumbnail, and so on...

[Arvid]

Could be done with a dedicated Front Page plugin - please see the topic [feature request] frontpage enhancement.

[vodka]

Could be done with a dedicated Front Page plugin - please see the topic [feature request] frontpage enhancement.

Not exactly... it can be alive without the front page, the main goal of this plugin is provide a tool (flatpress api or so on) to customize a blogpost

The second example can be done with this code:

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{if ($cover)} <div style=background-image:"{$cover}" ><h2>{$subject|tag:the_title}</h2></div>{/if}
...
{$content|tag:the_content}
...

[vodka]

I have made a first attempt to write this plugin... and it's seem to work! But I need help to write the configuration panel, I do not know how pass a value from smarty to php, someone ca help me?

[Arvid]

We'll get this running Can you please post your current plugin code?

[vodka]

It's very simple, the first part it's already inside the FP code... for the second part of the code I need a little bit of rework, I'm writing a new theme from scratch to show how it works.