Chapter 22. News and Article Hacks

IN THIS CHAPTER

• News Article Display

• News Article Submissions

• Troubleshooting

• Next

Home page news and article content are relatively integral to most PostNuke sites. But "the way PostNuke does it" might not fit every site to which the Content Management System (CMS) is applied. PostNuke has many features, but sometimes there can even be too many options for users. The display of content is also often cookie cutter due to subtle limitations in the display code. Any problem can be solved; it just takes editing the code.

This chapter covers a number of PostNuke hacks to the article system. The first set of code changes cover the way articles are displayed, and the second set shows you how to edit the submission forms to provide the interface your users need. This chapter covers the following hacks:

• Theme-based topic graphics

• Article title and links

• Forcing story count on home page

• Changing default "Articles" to "No Category"

• Removing article categories

• Adding names to anonymous comments