Author Archives: Michael Sharman
- July 1, 2011
- FarCry – grouping formtool category items
A new project we’re working has the need to categorise each new content object, for this we use the built in FarCry category/keyword formtool. By default the render type is a multi-select tree, I wanted a single select dropdown. Luckily formtools makes this oh so simple. Note that I’ve set the dropdown size to 1 [...]
- June 30, 2011
- FarCry Tip – remove install directory
After you install FarCry you must make sure to delete the “install” folder(s) that FarCry leaves behind. Otherwise it’s possible for anyone to access the installer wizard again from your production website, and as it’s the installer they don’t even need to be logged in to cause real havoc. Not good. By default, as of [...]
- May 31, 2011
- Mura – overriding dspCrumblistLinks
Like most CMS solutions out there, Mura CMS gives you some cool hooks to override core functionality. See the developer guides for more information. I’ve created a repository on github to store any customisations or extensions that could be cherry picked for use in any Mura app. First up was a super simple one for [...]
- May 29, 2011
- FarCry to Mura – migrating data from FarCry to Mura CMS
For years here at Learnosity we’ve been using FarCry for most of our CMS requirements (yes, I know that FarCry, or rather farcrycms, is a lot more than just a CMS). For one reason or another we decided it was time to look at some of the other options for content management in the ColdFusion [...]
- May 11, 2011
- WordPress – detecting the categories of a post
I was creating a WordPress child theme (the best way to modify/override your themes) tonight and had the need to have different display options depending on which categories the blog article had. So for example if I had a post categorised with “portfolio”, I wanted to hide the comments form which usually sits at the [...]