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Flexibility 4 BETA testers needed

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    leekohlbradley Reply #11, 10 years, 9 months ago
    Ok thanks for letting me know that in theory it should work OK as an upgrade. I'll work with it for a bit and see if I can get it going. The problems could very well be something I did.

    Otherwise it seems the only confirmed issue would be for anyone attempting to uninstall the package laugh
    • Menno Pietersen Reply #12, 10 years, 9 months ago
      I just updated Flexibility to 1.0.7-rc and tested on MODX Cloud.
      Should be available in a few minutes on http://flexibilitymodx.com


      • Clean install works
      • Uninstall works (had to uninstall twice, first looked like it got stuck at uninstalling gallery, did refresh and the it worked)
      • Re-install after uninstall worked, just had to manually install all sub-packes becouse they were already there
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        leekohlbradley Reply #13, 10 years, 9 months ago
        Menno,

        What's your advice for customizing this?

        Since you say not to change any file starting with "flex4-" I'm not really sure where to start with things like removing the search box, adding page headings, changing background colors, etc...

        Foundation docs suggest you "Override the Foundation styles within your app.scss file."

        Is this the case for the Modx version?


        Also:

        I've found two things so far that are either bugs or further failures in my understanding.

        1. If a resource has no description, it will cause the Content to begin rendering in the <head> at this point: <meta name="description" content="...
        2. phpThumbUp doesn't seem to work. For example <img src="[[*flex4_page_image]]" alt="[[*pagetitle]]" /> will show an image but <img src="[[*flex4_page_image:phpthumbsup=`w=100&h=100`]]" alt="[[*pagetitle]]" /> will show a broken src icon.

        Thanks!

        Lee [ed. note: leekohlbradley last edited this post 10 years, 9 months ago.]
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          leekohlbradley Reply #14, 10 years, 9 months ago
          Hi Menno,

          I'm sure you've been busy lately. Just let me know when you have a moment, or if there's a better way to address these issues.

          Thanks!

          Lee
          • Menno Pietersen Reply #15, 10 years, 9 months ago
            Hello Lee,

            To customize the site I suggest you simply add another css file+link below the excising ones.
            I will add this in a update for easy customization's.

            If you want to edit elements of the header/footer, duplicate the chunk, change the name and use this in your template.
            You will also have to duplicate band rename any template that use your new header/footer...
            Also, updates will not work with this of course... (but you could still update and manually check if the template or header changed)

            I will think about adding options to remove the search from the header.


            1. I will fix the description bug in a new version... Thanks for finding the bug
            2. What version of Flexibility are you using, I think this is fixed in V 1.0.7-rc (you probably could just update/reinstall PHPthumbsUp to the latest version
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              leekohlbradley Reply #16, 10 years, 9 months ago
              Hi Menno,

              Thanks for that! That's what I've been doing so far.

              As for phpThumbsUp, I'm on Flexibility4 1.0.7 rc and phpThumbsUp 1.1.1. I just tried to reinstall Thumbs and try a few different images but they all create the link in the expected format, but no image... Maybe I'm doing it wrong, do you need to do anything besides use the snippet in the src=""?

              Thanks again, much appreciated!

              Lee
              • Menno Pietersen Reply #17, 10 years, 9 months ago
                Is there anything in the error log?
                Maybe phpThumbsUp has nor rights to create the thumbnail...
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                • Menno Pietersen Reply #18, 10 years, 8 months ago
                  UPDATE: 1.0.9-rc now available as a MODX package:
                  http://modx.com/extras/package/flexibility4

                  Changelog for Flexibility

                  flexibility4-1.0.9-rc.transport (18 september 2013)
                  ====================================
                  - Added working contact page and contact settings
                  - Flexibility 4 now available as a MODX package om modx.com

                  flexibility4-1.0.8-rc.transport (14 september 2013)
                  ====================================
                  - 100% rebuild, tested and improved!
                  - Current features: homepage, slider, image gallery, search, template variables, site settings, responsive images (phpThumbsUp), update and uninstall

                  http://flexibilitymodx.com/
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                  • Menno Pietersen Reply #19, 10 years, 7 months ago
                    UPDATE: 1.1.0-pl now available as a MODX package:
                    http://modx.com/extras/package/flexibility4
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                      jxlusa Reply #20, 10 years, 7 months ago
                      Hi Menno,
                      using transport package 1.1.0-rc. Added in to Template: Article page - Flexibility 4 (I'm guessing you had this in there at one point but it's not there in my install...)

                      <div class="post-comments" id="comments">
                      [[+comments]]


                      <h3>Add a Comment</h3>
                      [[+comments_form]]
                      </div>

                      Just noticed that the comment count on the wrapper page says 0 comments, even though the count is now correct on the article itself. Haven't figured out how to fix that one yet.

                      Also haven't figured out how to fix the link from an article "Back to News Overview". Right now it links back to /SiteRoot/PageID_Number. That does not work because I have SEO friendly URLS so the correct link would be /SiteRoot/index/news/

                      So far, the things that would be good from my point of view as a person with very limited technical knowledge:
                      1. The addition of custom.css as you mentioned above would be a nice touch.
                      2. &emailTo=`[[*flex_contact_email]]` instead of [[++flex_contact_email]] as we already discussed on github.
                      3. A read-me that includes a list of which plugins are used by default in the base template (if any) so we know what can be uninstalled without affecting the template.

                      That's all I can think of at the moment. Haven't gotten too far yet on setting up a site. Thanks again for making this.
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