Publisher Stacks set
Easily extend the default Publishing features of RapidWeaver with the Publisher stacks set. You simply set a publishing start and end date, the Publisher stacks set makes sure that the content is only shown for the given period or days.
More examples
More examples coming soon...
Publisher Stacks set Manual
Currently this stacks set contains 3 stacks and using the Publisher Stacks set is very simple:
- Start by adding a Stacks page to your project;
- Open the Page Inspector and set the file type aka extension of your page to PHP;
- Add the Publisher Enclosure stack only once on your stacks page;
- Use as many "Publisher Item Period" or "Publisher Item Days" stacks as you like;
- Set the Item's publishing properties and place your content stacks in the Item stacks;
- Publish or upload your pages and enjoy your Publisher stacks enabled website.
More details
Below a more detailed explanation, click on an item to show/hide it's documentation content.
Show date and time
values
Check if you would like to see the used Date and Time values while working on a new stacks page.
Since the Publisher stacks set is based on the server side language PHP it is also using the Date and Time settings from your webserver to decide if a Publishing Item should be visible or not. It sometimes happens that these setting from a webserver are different from what people expect them to be. So you can easily use this option to detect the used value's and correct them (manually of course) when needed.
Check if you would like to see the used Date and Time values while working on a new stacks page.
Since the Publisher stacks set is based on the server side language PHP it is also using the Date and Time settings from your webserver to decide if a Publishing Item should be visible or not. It sometimes happens that these setting from a webserver are different from what people expect them to be. So you can easily use this option to detect the used value's and correct them (manually of course) when needed.
Month from / Month
to
Simply enter the starting and ending month number,
so thats between 1 and 12.
Day from / Day to
Enter the starting and ending day from the given month,
valid values between 1 and 31.
Year from / Year to
Any given year from "today" and into the feature,
always use a 4 digit value.
Hours from / Hours to
The hours for the given start and end day using the 24 hrs notation format,
valid values between 0 and 23.
Minutes from / Minutes to
As expected you should also set your starting and ending minutes,
valid values between 0 and 59.
When version 2 of the Stacks Plugin is available these input fields are likely to change so that you can easily choose your values from a dropdown list.
Simply enter the starting and ending month number,
so thats between 1 and 12.
Day from / Day to
Enter the starting and ending day from the given month,
valid values between 1 and 31.
Year from / Year to
Any given year from "today" and into the feature,
always use a 4 digit value.
Hours from / Hours to
The hours for the given start and end day using the 24 hrs notation format,
valid values between 0 and 23.
Minutes from / Minutes to
As expected you should also set your starting and ending minutes,
valid values between 0 and 59.
When version 2 of the Stacks Plugin is available these input fields are likely to change so that you can easily choose your values from a dropdown list.
Monday -
Sunday
Simply check the box for the Day(s) on which you want the content to be published.
Simply check the box for the Day(s) on which you want the content to be published.
FAQ
All currently known FAQ items are shown below
PHP is a server side language, so
all the intelligence from the
Publisher stacks set is done on
the server side. Meaning that
only the content that should be
published is send from the
webserver to the browser of your
website visitors. Of course this
could also be done with
Javascript but then all content
(including not published) is send
to the browser and than only the
content items that should appear
are made visible afterwards. So
in that case you could
theoretically download a huge
page where no content is shown at
all.
If we receive a lot of request for a Javascript based version we might consider creating a JS version of the Publishing stacks set.
If we receive a lot of request for a Javascript based version we might consider creating a JS version of the Publishing stacks set.
Sure, you can combine the
different Publisher Item stacks.
Simply place a Days stack inside
a Period stack if you would like
to control the Publishing period
on a more detailed level.
Any other kind of content stack
should be fine, you could for
example use an Extra Content
stack and place your other
content stacks in it.
The Margins and Padding values of
the different Item stacks are
automatically set to zero so that
you can modify these setting on
your real content stacks just
like you would do without using
one of the Publisher Item stacks.
Publisher Stacks Set
Easily extend the default Publishing features of RapidWeaver with the Publisher stacks set. You simply set a publishing start and end date, the Publisher stacks set makes sure that the content is only shown for the given period or days.
So what can I do with this stacks set?
When using a CMS like for example Joomla or WordPress you have a feature which allows you to publish aka schedule your content to be published at a future date. With the release of the Publisher stacks set this feature also comes available to RapidWeaver. Simply set the Publishing Period and/or Days, then Publish / Upload you RapidWeaver project to your webserver and you are good to go.
Usage examples
Of course there are various usage examples and we would love to receive your feedback and usage examples beside this short list:
- You may have an announcement to make and want to write your article now, but have it automatically go up at a later date and time. With the Publisher stacks set, you won’t have to remember to upload the article when its that time;
- You’re in a busy writing mode and are adding many new articles to your website at once, but you want your visitors or maybe even the search engines to think your site is constantly updating with fresh content, so you simply delay your new articles so they get published at a consistent rate;
- You would like to show different content on each day of the week, for every week of the year of maybe only for a given period in time;
- You have just released a new product and would like to offer all website visitors a discount for a limited period of time.
- An installer for the Publisher stacks set;
- RapidWeaver 5 example project;
- RapidWeaver 4 or 5;
- Stacks Plugin 1.4 or above;
- Webserver with PHP 5.
For those who are interested in the changes made to the Publisher Stacks set.
New version that is designed for
the Stacks plugin version 2 only.
This version is using the new
input element so that you can
easily select the required event
from a drop-down list and other
input items like the extra
content area are only visible
when required. The download
package contains a special
installer for the stacks v1 and
v2 plugins. Note that you should
check the stored values after
upgrading to version 2.0.0 of
this stacks set since we've
changed the input items into
predefined drop-down values.
Released on 27 november 2011.
Released on 27 november 2011.
First public release on 9
september 2011.