Matthew1471's ASP BlogX

Karen today e-mailed a few questions and suggestions on BlogX, so to build up my mini FAQ here is my response to the following topics, Hopefully this might answer a few questiosn other people have

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Suggest : Multiple Categories per post?
That is a limitation of BlogX your quite right, this is possible to program if you deem it nessasary but I would just like to highlight a few reasons why I didn't program this initially..

Firstly confusion, people may wish to click a category to have a simple read through categories that interest them, if entries span multiple categories then they're going to end up reading the same entries..

Secondly (more importantly) speed, at the moment BlogX runs a query to Select all records matching a certain category.. with multiple categories this would mean reading all the records one by one and examining the categories followed by a comma.

Give some thought into this and tell me if you'd like me to make a hack for you to be able to have multiple categories

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How Do I : Remove Categories (Just one particular category, not the whole idea of categories)?
To remove a category is *easy* simply click the edit icon (Found in the posts title) and change the category from there (or even leave it blank for Misc)... if there are no posts made in a category, then the category ceases to exist

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Question : Weired pictures instead of text?
The musical note is part of the "emoticon" pack, simply edit "Includes\Replace.asp" and take out the line " strOutput = Replace(strOutput,"(8)","<img title=""Note"" src=""Images/Emoticons/Note.gif"">") " this was originally included into BlogX after users asked for a way to maybe have smiley faces within posts (But understandably this can sometimes get in the way of actual text)

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Design : I hate the "Only Showing (#BlogX)" on the category page
This wasn't in the original BlogX for .NET (Created by a Microsoft Employee) this was one part I thought went with the record paging, it allowed users to see that by clicking on a category and reading a certain day, that that doesn't reflect *all* of the posts of the day..

However it's your opinion that matters and so here is a way to hack yours to no longer display that, Open up "ViewCat.asp" in Notepad and edit this line (You might want to keep a backup just in case)

Replace : Response.Write "<H2 class=dateHeader>" & Left(MonthName(MonthPosted),3) & " " & DayPosted & ", " & YearPosted & " (Only #" & Replace(Category, "%20", " ") & ")</H2>" & vbcrlf

Replace With : Response.Write "<H2 class=dateHeader>" & Left(MonthName(MonthPosted),3) & " " & DayPosted & ", " & YearPosted & "</H2>" & vbcrlf

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