Archive for 'Tips'
Creating a Mango Blog Theme Guide
Benedict Lowndes, who ported the Vigilance theme, has posted a guide on how to create a Mango theme. He has very good tips if you want to try to make your own blog design.
SES URLs on Tomcat
One problem people had when using Mango on Railo on Tomcat is that they need to change the settings to not use friendly URLs. That also happens with ColdFusion if you are using it on top on Tomcat.
Indiver Nagpal describes the changes you need to make to make it work with the default friendly URLs.
How to enable shadowbox features in the admin
Mark Aplet explains how to use Witheringtree's Shadowbox plugin within Mango's admin.
Everything you need to know about Mango pods - Part 2: Plugin Pods
Posted on March 20, 2009, under Plugins and Tags, Tips.
In part 2 of Adam's series on how to create pods for your Mango blog, Adam explains how a plugin can show a pod. Using plugins for pods allows you to add as many pods as you want, and those are not dependent on the theme's built-in template pods.
Creating Mango pods - Part 1: Simple Template Pods
Adam has written a guide on how to create Mango pods. In this first part, he covers simple template pods. Those are pods that must be added to the skin template. A must read if you create your own skins.
