Tips and Tricks from PS: What's up?

Keyboard Shortcuts for WYSIWYG

Christina Wodtke — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:02:22 GMT

<img src="/files/blog/keyboard-shortcuts/PS-WYSIWYG-2.png" width="245" height="215" alt="WYSIWYG new functionality" title="WYSIWYG new functionality" align="right" />You may have noticed WYSIWYG has gone on a diet and started working out… and she's looking (and acting!) better than ever before. What you don't know is Jim, which exploring the depths of the FCKEditor documentation, found some awesome keyboard shortcuts for you! If you've never used them before, go ahead a play a bit. The secret is to hold these keys down together... or in order. So, for example, hold down the CTRL key (on window's machines, on Mac's it's usually the apple) and while holding it down, push the letter A.

Keyboard Shortcuts

enter gets you a

shift-enter gets you a

Accelerator keys:

CTRL + A, select all
CTRL + C, copy
CTRL + F, Launches find
CTRL + S, Saves (currently to disk, we're planning to return to it and get it to save to PS)
CTRL + X, Cut
CTRL + V, 'Paste'
SHIFT + INS, 'Paste'
CTRL + X, 'Cut'
SHIFT + DEL, 'Cut'
CTRL + Z, 'Undo'
CTRL + Y 'Redo'
CTRL + SHIFT + Z, 'Redo'
CTRL + L, 'Link'
CTRL + B, 'Bold'
CTRL + I, 'Italic'
CTRL + U, 'Underline'
CTRL + SHIFT + S, 'Save'
CTRL + ALT + ENTER, 'FitWindow'
CTRL + TAB, 'Source'

BTW, FitWindow is a feature we're very excited to discover. We know you've been begging for more room to edit! The only problem is we haven't figured out how to get out of full-screen mode. I'll keep you updated for when we do...

Three Tiny Tricks for Cooler Interfaces

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:44:21 GMT

Firstly, we all now how important it is to keep our readers engaged. Here is a bit of liquid to show related categories. A great way to get more clicks!

 {% if story.categories != empty %}
Related Categories
        
          {% for category in story.categories %}
            {{ category.link }}
          {% endfor %}
        
  {% endif %}

Did you now PublicSquare generates a tiny url for every story? You can find it for your newsletters in the lower right sidebar. But sometimes you want to offer your users an easy way to share your stories too. Try sticking this bit of code in your sidebar.

Use this when sending links by email.
        {{ story.tiny_url }}

Finally, a goodie for your geekier users: rss on comments on each and every story (authors love it too!).

Comments Feed

Follow the comments on this story via RSS:

Comments RSS feed

Cocktail: Category and Story Iteration

Jim Meyer — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT

(cocktail == recipe for liquid ... get it? ;)

{% for category in current_site.story_categories %}
  {% if category.label == category_label && category.published_stories != empty %}
    
      {{ category | link }}
      {{ tagline }}
      
        {% for story in category.published_stories %}
        {{ story | link }}
        {% endfor %}
      
    
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

Statistics

Jim Meyer — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:20:20 GMT

A nice thing about PublicSquare is the ability to show off your community's statistics. Here's a bit of liquid to pull up some commonly used statistics.

Most commented upon

Most commented shows people what's hot, what's contraversial. A great way to get more discussion flowing! This code lists the stories that have the most comments. You don't have to use tables.

 {% if current_site.most_commented != empty %}
   Most-commented Stories (past 60 days)
        
          {% for content in current_site.most_commented %}
                  
          {% endfor %}
        
          
            Title
            Comments
          

              
             {{ content.title | truncate: 25 }}
             
              {{ content.recent_comments_count }}
            
  {% endif %}

Title	Comments
{{ content.title \| truncate: 25 }}	{{ content.recent_comments_count }}

Highest Rated

Everyone wants to know what's the best-- let them find those stories easily!

  {% if current_site.highest_rated_stories != empty %}
Highest-rated Stories
      
        
          {% for story in current_site.highest_rated_stories %}
            
          {% endfor %}
        
          
            Story
            Rating
          

              {{ story.title | truncate: 30 }}
             
              
             {% for step in story.rating_steps %}{% if step.on %}
              
              {% else %}
              
              {% endif %}
              {% endfor %}
              
            
  {% endif %}

Story	Rating
{{ story.title \| truncate: 30 }}	{% for step in story.rating_steps %}{% if step.on %} {% else %} {% endif %} {% endfor %}

Most Active Authors

This can be useful if you have a group of regular authors, to spur a little competition, keep people writing...

  
    Most Active Authors
    
      
        {% for user in current_site.most_active_authors %}
          
        {% endfor %}
      
        
          Author
          Stories
        

            {{ user.link }}
            {{ user.stories_count }}

Author	Stories
{{ user.link }}	{{ user.stories_count }}

Most Active Contributors

You can call them commenters, or community members, but you want to reward the folks who make your community work with a little shout-out!

    Most Active Commenters
    
      
        {% for user in current_site.most_active_commenters %}
          
        {% endfor %}
      
        
          Name
          Comments
        

            {{ user.link }}
            {{ user.comments_count }}

More tips soon!

Name	Comments
{{ user.link }}	{{ user.comments_count }}

New! Add RSS feeds to your Publication

Christina Wodtke — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:28:22 GMT

Erstwhile Matt Pelletier of EastMedia has just added the ability to add rss feeds as a way of populating content to the pages of your publication. It's a easy way to tie in blogs, or any outside ap with an RSS feed. For example, let's say you wanted to show the latest blog posts form friends using typepad, or say you wanted to pull in job listings from a job board... Just this!

   
   {% feedreader url: 'http://digg.com/', max: 15 as link %}
     {{ link.description }} 
     {{ link.extended }}
   {% endfeedreader %}