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October 27, 2003

Small Changes :)

Here are a series of small changes we've been making to the site:

1.) You can now specify the ability to disable HTML in your comments since a lot of people seem to like to use the > and < commands in comments. This has been disabled by default since the people who would realize that they need this off would most likely not know to check this; conversely, those who enjoy posting with HTML probably know enough to uncheck the box.

2.) Your titles are now HTML-disabled; HTML will not be allowed in entry titles. This was implement for the same reason as the above...

3.) For those of you who wish to sync your personal domain websites with your Tabulas; I highly suggest using the Magpie RSS - PHP Parser to parse your RSS feed; installation for me took less than a minute; customization took a bit longer.

4.) There were some issues with the new crossposting code that affected users attempting to crosspost (HTML was getting stripped out, and extra linebreaks were being added into entries). All issues have been addressed and fixed.

Posted by tabulas on October 27, 2003 at 02:06 AM | 59 Comments

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tabulas has turned on comment autolocking after 2 days.

free_spirit

Comment posted on November 5th, 2003 at 08:29 AM

hello roy!
can u tell me how i can lock my whole journal and set it to private or friends only mode??
thanks!

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Comment posted on November 5th, 2003 at 02:23 PM

Go through every entry and album and make it friends-only :/

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free_spirit

Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 05:35 AM

oh my goodness. i have TOO many entries to change!! lol... sigh. thanks though.. :]

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spaceinthewho

Comment posted on November 4th, 2003 at 08:31 PM

Bug in (break) text stuff.

You put in the backslash to modify certain escape characters, but with each successive submit (ie: if i submit, then edit, then submit, then edit, etc) you add more backslash characters to modify the previous backslashes.

This doesn't seem to be an issue when you view the HTML page, but it is kind of strange behaviour when you go back and look at the original text under "edit entry".

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Comment posted on November 5th, 2003 at 03:23 PM

should be fixed! let me know.

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void

Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 07:18 PM

aaa, how can i delete my account?

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Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 08:26 PM

You can't.

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Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 07:00 PM

Alright, when I try to add a smilie to my entry, the smilie replaces the last line of text and sometimes ALL OF MY TEXT. It's very frustrating, and there's no "undo" for that. Am I doing something wrong?

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Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 08:25 PM

This is a browser issue that we haven't been able to figure out. It works fine in most browsers; it's a few browsers tha thave issues.

What's your OS/browser?

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Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 09:27 AM

how can i set an icon for myself?

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Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 01:52 PM

Styles » Usericons

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RJ_happygolucky

Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 01:57 AM

or does it autmoatically appear
once someone logs in using his site?

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Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 02:17 AM

yes

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RJ_happygolucky

Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 01:51 AM

hi there
just want to ask'
how can i have that "add me as a friend" link in my page..
thanks..

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 04:08 PM

another question about tempalting. XD

is there any way to use an image in my gallery for the blog background?

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 05:47 PM

yes. just grab the url of the image and then put it in your background.

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 07:16 PM

But with the auto-image resizing, is it feasible? I think I tried it once, but it didn't work quite right.

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 10:40 PM

whoa, how big of a background image are you looking at?

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 11:29 PM

Just the size of my wallpaper. ;)

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 09:18 AM

I cant view any entry on my tabulas! It says There are no entries for this time period.

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Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 09:02 AM

wow I feel like an idiot :) heheh

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 03:21 PM

You've set 0 entries to display in your styles page.

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 01:00 AM

Hi Roy! I love Tabulas, especially how you can format the blogs almost completely, hehe. I've been taking full advantage of this feature! But because of it, I have a question: Is there a way to directly edit the comments page?

Specifically, I want to make the horizontal rule smaller, because it's screwing up the table on my comments pages (the HR is longer than the TD is). Is there a way to do this? Help would be greatly appreciated!

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 02:09 AM

Not yet :(

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 12:18 PM

Ah, after I looked at the code more carefully, it wasn't the horizontal rule messing up my layout, but the comments table itself. I figured out a way around this (yay!), but it would be nice to be able to format the comments page :) Maybe a suggestion for the future!

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 12:38 AM

I registered as azul but the confirmation link is all messed up :( so I can't login what do I do?

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 09:17 AM

thank you :)

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 02:11 AM

Try copying and pasting the link into your browser instead of clicking it.

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 12:39 AM

and I did the send email again thing but it's the same broken link

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bebe

Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 10:44 PM

OMG WILL ANYONE LISTEN TO ME? PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY TABULAS TEMPLATES ON MY BLOGRINGS, PLEASE!!!???

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Comment posted on November 2nd, 2003 at 12:16 AM

There is no shared journal support because the whole portion of the site is being revamped.

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Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 03:30 PM

wow thank you!

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Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 02:01 PM

hey~ i have i a question. at my other tabulas site "nabi" none of the entrys are showing up. can u plz tell me wuts up? (p.s. i LOVE TABULAS!)

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Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 03:09 PM

You've set your number of entries to display to 0. Set it to something greater than 0 in your styles page.

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Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 12:08 AM

well i just wanted to know why when i put an icon on the side of an entry, it would disappear once i change my options of putting icons in... for example: say i have choices a, b, c, d, e as icons, and i choose b. but i later change my choices to a, f, g, h, i. the b now went to the default a. is there a way to keep the icons i chose during that entry time and not have it all change to the default if i change my options?

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Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 12:45 AM

You're asking if you can set another usericon to take the place of a usericon you delete?

If so, the answer is no.

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Comment posted on October 31st, 2003 at 10:38 PM

Hi.

is there a page/site that can explain how to use the  tags? Blogger didn't have them, and I'm not sure how to use them. They seem to work diffrently than blogger's <$ $> tags.

thanks

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Comment posted on November 1st, 2003 at 12:05 AM

http://www.tabulas.com/documentation/templating.php

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Comment posted on November 3rd, 2003 at 01:53 PM

You don't :/ that documentation page is a stopgap for the new documentation area i'm building.

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bebe

Comment posted on October 30th, 2003 at 10:14 PM

Someone help me?

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Comment posted on October 30th, 2003 at 09:36 PM

You mean ?

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Comment posted on October 31st, 2003 at 12:04 AM

http://tabulas.com/documentation/templating.php

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tenaciousDan

Comment posted on October 30th, 2003 at 09:05 PM

How do you delete comments on your own Tabulas?

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Comment posted on October 30th, 2003 at 09:19 PM

Either from your feedback log or from the edit entries screen (hit moderate comments)

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SincerelyMe

Comment posted on October 30th, 2003 at 08:04 PM

you gotta help me at my school im not really popular but im a pop punk or/emo girl and have many friends especailly with the populars and just recently i took a notebook from one of them and now the girl hates me even after i apopgized and returned the book please help me now i think she turned her friends one me cause now they ignore me 2 kinda please help
can u please also wirte it on my blurty theres a spot to

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Comment posted on October 30th, 2003 at 08:51 PM

do <b>NOT</b> spam other journals.

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Comment posted on October 30th, 2003 at 04:32 PM

My shared journals aren't appearing even though I have the "Show Shared Journals on Site" checked on the Edit General Styles page.

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roy

Comment posted on October 30th, 2003 at 06:24 PM

Make sure your custom template has the proper commands in your template.

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bebe

Comment posted on October 29th, 2003 at 05:02 PM

How do you make layouts for blogrings. I made a layout similaur to mine (the coding) and then switched the format to that layout. But it shows up as nothing. Please help!!

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Comment posted on October 28th, 2003 at 03:32 PM

Aw, I usually bold my titles. But thanks for the notice. :)

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Comment posted on October 28th, 2003 at 05:16 PM

You should be doing that in your custom entries area rather than doing that for every title.

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Comment posted on October 28th, 2003 at 02:20 PM

I'm still unsure about this. Is there a way to categorize links? As a teacher, I may have 50 to 100 links on a page. If 12 of those links are for Literature Circles, I'd like to organize them in one category. If not, I can only use the links page for teachers cuz elementary school students will take too long to find the appropriate link.

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Comment posted on October 28th, 2003 at 04:26 PM

I'm working on it :)

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dodozhang21

Comment posted on October 28th, 2003 at 12:09 PM

hi roy, i'm working on the blogmatch project and wish to use strtotime php function to convert all the string dates in the xml files so i can have a uniform format. but i realize tabulas' last build date, your [dc:date] is not format correctly to be used with strtotime.. actually i'm not sure what the "T" means in the date format. could you please give that?

b2 uses this format
Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:52:19 GMT
and it works fine with the function. thanks!

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Comment posted on October 28th, 2003 at 12:34 PM

I'm following RSS 1.0 standards, which are a bit more complex than standard RSS 0.92 and RSS 2.0 ... the date format is following W3C format ... the T represents the time-offset.

If you want to grab this data in an easy format in PHP, isolate the date and time (e.g. throw out the T and everything after +). You can strtotime that data and it returns the time.

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ephi

Comment posted on October 27th, 2003 at 09:50 PM

Oh, and I actually hate the extra linebreaks! (Why don't make a checkbox for it too?) Thanks for the #1 though! saves me alot of time.

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dodozhang21

Comment posted on October 27th, 2003 at 01:50 PM

hey roy.. i forgot to mention is there anyway you can fix the auto links so it didn't replace a keyword in the middle of a url? i.e.
if i have <a href="http://regretless.com/dodo/newworld/">http://regretless.com/dodo/newworld/</a>
in my entry, i don't want dodo to be replaced by its corresponding link. i know this requires some pattern matching tho.. XP

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Comment posted on October 27th, 2003 at 04:05 PM

Yes, I got off my lazy butt!! I wrote an extensive outline of what I did on my personal journal, but autolinks now ignore data existing between <a></a> tags. :)

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dodozhang21

Comment posted on October 27th, 2003 at 07:52 PM

i think that's a good idea! how exactly did you do it btw? hehe i'd like to know

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