I often print an article to keep a copy. I use most of the time a “see before printing” to select the pages I want to print. But I’ve remarked that 50% of the printing area is employed with publicities or menus.

When we create the design of a site we foresee an area for menus, for publicity and sometimes others specific areas to boost the look and the ergonomic of the site.
These areas useful for the navigation become a pain for the printing of the article. However it is very simple to handle this problem if you use the style papers.CSS.

In an ecological wish (it’s tendance) but also to have a “cleaner” printed text, I am going to explain you how to adapt your WP theme to print correctly.

Modifications for WordPress

WordPress, like all the blog or CMS motors, use style papers to make easier the adpatation of the presentation. Also it is quite simple to adapt your theme, if it doesn’t permit it. In my case the adpatation took me less than one hour. Here is the modifications to make :

• print.css : creation of the specific style paper for the printing – It is a minimum version I only use the ID No Print that I hide for the impression, you can make it richer to modificate the margins, the size of the police and many other things.

  * #NoPrint {
  display: none;
  }

• header.php : Add of the style papers “media” for the print.

  <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”print” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/print.css” />

• index.php, page.php, … : Modification of many pages in the theme to add a – id=”NoPrint” – to the elements i don’t want to print.

Downloads

I propose you to download the last version of the theme Rbl-Illacrimo which includes the support of the printing.

Rbl – Illacrimo – Français

Rbl – Illacrimo – English

Rbl-Navigator is my second plugin for WordPress. In this plugin I just integrate a treeview menu in a widget.

This plugin permit to represent in just a widget your last articles, the list of the categories (and their “n” last articles), static links and the directory contents. I think I am going to add soon, if it seems usefull to you, the blogroll and the list of the last comments.

Exemple of use

Installation

To install this plugin on your WordPress configuration you just have to:

• Unzip the download file in the index/wp-content/plugins of your wordpress installation.
• Start the plugin in the administration console.
• Add a widget Rbl-Navigator in your SideBar.
• Configure this widget

Configuration

When you parametrize the Rbl-Navigator widget, a window appears and permit to specify the followings parameters :

• Title : Title of the widget
• Data : This data permit to build a treeview.
• Image Base : Default index of the images used by the plugins. (normally “img/ot”)
• Separator : Separation tape normally used by the plugin.”§”
• Max size : Max lenght of an item of the treeview in tape. (0 if there is no limit)

Data zone

0 § Home § 14 § /fr/index.php § ?Welcome
0 § %%LAST-5 § Last news § 1
0 § %%CAT-19,20-5 § Mes categs 19 et 20 § 1
0 § %%CAT-4-5 § Ma categ 4 § -1
0 § A propos § 19 § /fr/?p=2

This area permit to define teh whole contents of a treeview. This is structure as the following exemple :

• Static links :
  

  Col	Description
  1	Hierarchical level (0 1st level).
  2	Title
  3	Icon number
  4	URL
  5	destination target or help message (bullet) if the string start with a ‘?’

• Commandes (WP) :
  

  Col	Description
  1	Hierarchical level(0 1st level).
  2	Command (start by %%)
  3	Title
  4	Icon number

• Commands format :
  

  Command	Description
  %%LAST-(n)	Show the last n news Exemple : %%LAST-5
  %%CAT-(idcat)-(n)	Show the last n news in categories idcat Exemple : %%CAT-19,20-5 (display the last 5 articles in the categories 19 and 20) %%CAT-ALL-3 (show les 3 last news in all categories)
  %%REP-(directory)-(action)	Exemple : %%REP-/www/tliste/-aaa.php?file=tliste/ (display a structure and contents of directory /www/tliste/ and define an action for each item aaa.php?file=nomdufichier

Other

• JQuery : This plugin use the intern version at WordPress of JQuery to limit the modifications during the oppening of the closing of a node.
  But it perfectly works if the Javascript support is desactivated.
• Optimisation : To limit the acess to the data base, a file is generate during the key-boarding of an article or during the modification of the widget’s configuration.

Background

• 04/05/2008 : Version 1.00 1st version

Downloads

rbl-navigator.zip

News version ! Correct bug in categories tag

rbl-listtag is a WordPress plugin, it can display in a page or in a post the last comments or the last posts filtered by tags or categories.
It’s my first plugin, you can send me either your bugs or comments.

Installation

• Upload rbl-listtag.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
• Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
• That’s it!

Utilisation

This plugin is easy to use. When it’s activate you can add in your page or post :

• %%rbl-tag-java-5-monstyle%% : Display the last 5 posts with java tag and format the html table with monstyle css style
• %%rbl-cat-db2-5-monstyle%% : Display the last 5 posts with db2 categories and format the html table with monstyle css style
• %%rbl-cat-db2,mysql-7-monstyle%% : Display the last 7 posts with db2 or mysql categories and format the html table with monstyle css style
• %%rbl-last-last-5-monstyle%% : Display the last 5 posts and format the html table with monstyle css style
• %%rbl-com-comments-5-monstyle%% : Display the last 5 comments and format the html table with monstyle css style

The data displayed for the post are : title, excerpt, number of comments, modified date

And for the comments : Title, the author and the 60 first char of the comments

Exemple

%%rbl-tag-java-5-tbl1%%

%%rbl-tag-java-5-tbl1%%

CSS

You can use a CSS style in the generated table

.tbl2 {
	FLOAT: left; WIDTH: 40%;
	BORDER-TOP: #2020a0 3px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #2020a0 3px solid;
	COLOR: #2020a0; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent
}
.tbl2 .r1 { COLOR: #2020a0; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f0f0f0 }
.tbl2 .r2 { COLOR: #2020a0; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d0f0ff }

Historique

• 09/12/2007 : Version 1.01 replace query_posts function by get_results ( bugs )
• 08/12/2007 : Version 1.0 plugin creation

Download

rbl-listtag.zip

6 december 2007 : Some corrections (bugs and, display problem), widgets modification to add open/close option. Add bottom sidebar.

Chose a theme…

After having tested some blog’s engines (dotclear, drupal, joomla, ..), I chosed WordPress. This choise done I needed to configurate it and chose a theme and plugins.


I wanted a theme with the following functions :

• Fluid Width
• 3 colums
• Widget ready

After many tests I select “Illacrimo” by Design disease .
I had to do some modifications on this theme to be totally satisfied.


I made the following modifications :

• I change the left colum to give him fluid width
• I change the left “date” colum to include it into the title
• Correction of a little bug with WordPress 2.3.x

If you do some corrections or modifications in this theme I would be pleased if you send me a copy of it.

Download

Rbl – Illacrimo – Français

Rbl – Illacrimo – English

@import url(“/myCss/myStyle.css”);

Sample

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Exemple avec alert warning Exemple avec alert warning Exemple avec alert warning

Exemple avec alert Link

Exemple avec alert Feed

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Exemple avec titre1

Exemple avec titre2

Exemple avec titre3

Exemple avec titre4

Exemple avec titre5

Exemple avec titre6

Table “tbl0″

Table “tbl1″

Table “tbl3″