Rick on the road blog back on the road

This post was written 4 months ago.
Mon, 04 Feb 2013
This software was originally written for my "on the road" travel blog, which I later took offline and incorporated the content into my main blog. I've now reversed that and reinstated On the road (largely due to the recent purchase of another VW T25 campervan, which I hope to be the catalyst for some more travel blogging!).

There are currently a few enhancements in the backontheroad branch that drives the travel blog that haven't been merged back into master - for example the pagination. I'm also planning on replacing lightbox used for the gallery with something responsive so that they work better on mobile.
Tags: project update /

Thumbnail Gallery added to example site

This post was written 7 months ago.
Sun, 04 Nov 2012
To add a thumbnail gallery to a blog post, create a folder win the images folder with the same name as the blog post. By default this will give you thumbnails linking through to a larger version of the image. These can be used with lightbox, or similar plugin.

Previous and Next links

This post was written 1 year ago.
Mon, 07 May 2012
When viewing a post directly, the "previous" and "next" links now show in the post template (if applicable). Theoretically there is a slight performance hit, because the previous and next links need to be looked up by getting all the post file names, either from cache or by reading from the filesystem.

Demo site online!

This post was written 1 year ago.
Sat, 28 Apr 2012
The eatStatic demo site is now running as an unmodified clone of the master branch of the github repo. To install (full instructions to follow):-

  1. Download or clone the code
  2. Take a look at eatStatic_config.php - in particular you will need to change the host name, used to detect whether the site is in production or development mode
  3. Make sure the "data" folder is writable, then run /scripts/setup.php to check and create the cache folders