FlatPress support forum

whitecat wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 8:39 am1. The blog will be strictly private. Readers of this blog must authenticate in one or another way (username/password is sufficient). No exceptions! However, I haven't seen this functionality in FlatPress, neither in its core nor as a plugin. Is there a (simple) built-in technique to achieve this goal? Did I miss anything? (Of course, plain http authentication would be an option, but it's more cumbersome to create new user "accounts" this way; I would have to do this for my friend, who is a photographer, not an IT administrator.)

whitecat wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 8:39 am2. The blog articles will contain many pictures, all in all a few hundreds of them. Is there a possibility to batch upload them instead of uploading each picture separately? (E. g. upload a huge zipfile or transfer the pictures via an FTP client into a special directory)? Again I haven't found an out-of-the-box solution, but maybe I just missed it.

Arvid wrote: Fri May 31, 2024 8:06 pm It's no problem to upload many pictures at once via FTP to the fp-content/images folder. FlatPress will automatically create the thumbnail for the images when they are first shown on the blog.
I use this regularly on my own blog, especially to fill galleries: After creating the new gallery with the Uploader in the Admin Area, I upload the images to fp-content/images/NameOfTheGallery. With the Gallery Captions plugin, I then create the caption for each image. (Example entry on my blog; gallery at the bottom.)

whitecat wrote: Wed Jul 31, 2024 1:27 pm I'm not able to include them into a new blog entry via the dropdown list. (If I specify the path in the img tag manually as images/subdirectory/example.jpg, it works.) Did I miss something?

whitecat wrote: Wed Jul 31, 2024 1:27 pmHowever, If I upload the pictures into subdirectories of fp-content/images with an FTP client (for reasons of clarity, I don't want to have several hundred pictures in one directory), I'm not able to include them into a new blog entry via the dropdown list. (If I specify the path in the img tag manually as images/subdirectory/example.jpg, it works.) Did I miss something?

[gallery="images/2024-08-03_MyGallery" height="100"]

whitecat wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:49 am3. (the most important): As this will be a report of some past journeys, the entries should appear in ascending order of their dates, thus just the opposite of a usual blog, where the entries are shown in descending order. However, I haven't found the right place to change this, neither in the settings nor somewhere in the code. Do you have an idea how to achieve this goal? At least there must be a place in the code where the entry files get sorted in ascending order.

whitecat wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:49 am4. As I read somewhere in the wiki oder here in this forum, it's impossible to change the timestamp of an entry once it's created, at least "officially". Maybe this will be a requirement in the future, e. g. in case if it turns out that an entry is too long and would better be split up into two parts. Considering the fact that the timestamp information must be somewhere in the filesystem, I have looked around and have found four references to it (the files entry<timestamp>.txt, the directories entry<timestamp>, the field DATE, the yy/mm/dd directory structure). So I tried to change all four references to their new values, rebuilt the index afterwards and it seems to work. Is this a safe "hack" to change an entry's timestamp subsequently or does this approach break anything? Are there more files/directories to change in this case?

whitecat wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:49 am5. Is there an update-safe place for some custom CSS files or would it be best to change the theme's CSS files?

Arvid wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 1:05 pm Hm, there's a difference between images and gallery images. The images selectbox in the editor does indeed only show the contents of fp-content/images. I doubt it would be good to add the images from the gallery subdirectories there as well - over time, the selectbox may have to display gazillions of individual options.

Arvid wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 1:05 pm Is it really neccessary for you to display the images individually in your entries? The gallery tag would do the trick as well:

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[gallery="images/2024-08-03_MyGallery" height="100"]

It's no problem to display more than one gallery per entry.

Arvid wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 1:05 pmOof. I'm not sure how that could be achieved even remotely easily. This concerns the very core of FlatPress; you may have a deep look into the fp-includes/core files, especially core.bplustree.class.php, core.filesystem.php, and core.fpdb.class.php.

Arvid wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 1:05 pmIsn't the theme always custom, even if it's based on a default theme? I recommend simply creating a copy of the original theme and use it as you own theme from then on - updates will not overwrite your own theme (as long as it has an individual folder name).

whitecat wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:14 pmThere must be some code that defines the order of the entries. The iterator {entry_block} must be defined somewhere. If I find something out, I will post it here for future reference.

define('BPT_SORT', SORT_DESC);

define('BPT_SORT', SORT_ASC);