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The versioning system allows you to track changes in your site's discussion group (including stories and pictures), templates and other Advanced Prefs, and revert to previous versions.
Managing editors of a site can use the audit trail to restore older versions of individual messages or preferences.
Configuring Versioning on your site
Click the Prefs link in the Editors Only menu and then choose Versioning. This is where you configure your Versioning preferences.
| Versioning Preferences |
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| Enable version tracking for messages and advanced prefs? |
Choose whether you want to enable versioning on your Manila site. |
| Do you want an option to restore previous versions when editing messages? |
Display the versioning control form beside changed messages and selected Advanced Preferences. |
On the bottom of the Versioning preferences page, you will see a list of Recent Changes to stories and preferences.
Rollback changes to a message
When you edit a message and the preference to rollback changes is enabled, you will see a new form above the editing box.
This form will allow you to restore older versions of the message. Select the version you want to restore to from the "Rollback To" dropdown box and then click the Go button.
Or you can also use the form to delete an older version of a message saved by versioning. While viewing the specified version of the message, check the "discarding latest version" box and click the Go button.
Rollback changes to an Advanced preference
You will see a similar interface to rolling back changes to a message when you make changes to selected Advanced preferences.
This form will allow you to restore older versions of the Advanced preference or discard the selected version.
Advanced preferences that you can use versioning with are:
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Home Page Template
Print-Friendly Template
News Day Template
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Courtesy of www.userland.com
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Technical dept.
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Access ControlThe Access Control feature allow editors to control what content can be seen and/or responded to within a given site. Access to discussion group messages, stories, pictures and news items can be restricted to specific types of members, or on a date/time basis.
Access to individual messages, stories and pictures can be restricted to members, editors or managing editors (also known as Cohorts). You can also set messages to read-only, meaning that no responses may be posted in the discussion group, or you can restrict access based on a date/time range.
Members can restrict access to their own content by cohort. Managing editors can also restrict access to areas of the site by URL, by adding attributes to the Site Structure.
Configuring Access Control on a Manila site
Click the Prefs link in the Editors Only menu and then click Access Control. This is where you configure your Access Control preferences.
| Access Control Preferences |
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| Enable access controls? |
Choose whether you want to enable access controls on your Manila site. |
| Enable access control in the Site Structure? |
You can restrict access to sections of your site by enabling this feature and adding attributes to the Site Structure. |
| Add access controls to new/changed message forms? |
Display the access control form beside new and changed messages. |
| Add read-only controls to new/changed message forms? |
Display the read-only control form beside new and changed messages. |
| Add access controls to new/changed News Item forms? |
Display the access control form beside new and changed News Items. |
| Editors always see access controls on changed message forms? |
Always display the access control forms beside changed messages for editors. |
| Allow members to set their default cohorts for new messages? |
Add additional access controls to set the default cohorts for access and read only controls beside new and changed messages. |
| Who may set messages visible to Everyone? |
Determines which category of member can set messages visible to everyone |
| Add time access controls to new/changed message forms? |
Display the time access control form beside new and changed messages. |
| Add time access controls to new/changed News Item forms? |
Display the time access control form beside new and changed News Items. |
| Use 24 hour time format for time-based access controls? |
Select the time format for time-based access controls. |
| Track when members read controlled messages? |
Configure Access Control to track when members read a controlled message. |
Maintain Access Control Error Pages
There are two different error pages which are returned when someone attempts to access a page they don't have permission to view. The first error page is displayed when the user doesn't have sufficient priviliges to view the page, and the second is displayed when a page is restricted by date.
You can edit the title and body text of these error pages on the bottom of the Access Control prefs page. Or you can also check the appearance of the error pages by clicking the "View" link beside each error message form.
Courtesy of www.userland.com
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Technical dept.
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Features
Browser-based editing. Manage your home page, write stories with pictures, organise and present your thinking, with any web browser, anywhere. More.
Edit this Page buttons are everywhere, making site updates easy. No messing with the file system, editors, FTP programs, and hard to remember URLs. You can't lose anything because once you found it on the web, you've found it! This single feature cuts the complexity of writing for the web by orders of magnitude. It's so easy it's revolutionary. More.
Site membership allows you to gather customised information from people who use your site. Database storage is automatic through XML-specified templates. Membership profile pages help community-building.
Simple publishing model, managing editor, contributing editors, members. Full discussion group runs behind the scenes. Link management through shortcuts takes complex HTML out of the way of writers. Email notification can be sent to the editorial team when a new story is posted or when an existing story changes.
Easy navigation through back-issues of the home page through an intuitive calendar. Every issue has its own URL. More.
Powerful customisation through templates, navigation, CSS, JavaScript. Full control over HTML. Unbalanced tags are automatically balanced.
Content is separated from form, designers edit templates, while writers independently create stories, photographers and artists place pictures. The site template can change without updating any content.
Full content management system under the hood. Templates, shortcuts, stories, pictures. Macros connect Manila with the powerful Frontier content management environment. Highly reliable server built on scalable system software. Runs on Windows and Mac OS. Integrates through COM, ODBC, Apple Events, HTTP, XML-RPC. More.
ISP-ready. Manila sites are safe, and can be extended through macros and templates, allowing service providers to differentiate their offerings. Automatic nightly updates. Built-in support for XML-based syndication and distributed computing standards.
Friendly community. The idea of doing content managed sites in a web browser is so new, we're all newbies, but we're learning quickly! More.
Source: http://manila.userland.com/
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Promotion, Technical dept.
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The referrerRemover plug-in already does a great job of getting rid of 'Referrer' SPAM.
Now I've finally got rid of comment, message and trackback SPAM! Woo-hoo.
How? Via the ManilaAkismet plug-in. Read all about it here. Basically, it is a spam filtering service created by Automattic. Akismet attempts to filter link spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings. The filter works by combining information about spam captured on all participating blogs, and then using those spam rules to block future spam.
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Technical dept.
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An invaluable users guide is available here. Very easy to read and understand.
A more comprehensive guide is available here. Contains all of the above and much more!
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Technical dept.
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E-Mail Integration with the 'Mail-to-Weblog' feature integrates Manila with email so you can post to your site while you're on the go, even from your PDA or mobile phone. The enhanced email bulletins feature lets you easily send email alerts to site members about important posts.
Mail-to-Weblog 
The Mail-to-Weblog feature makes it easy to post to your site by simply sending an email to it.
When this feature is enabled, Manila periodically checks for new messages in a POP email account that you specify, and posts new messages whose subject matches your "secret subject" to your site.
Messages which are posted to your site will be deleted from your POP account. All non-matching messages will be left on your mail server.
Steps
1. Go to the Mail-to-Weblog prefs page in your Manila site: Click the Prefs link in the Editors Only menu, then click the Mail-to-Weblog link.
2. Click Yes next to "Enable the Mail-to-Weblog feature?" (Screenshot.)
3. Enter your POP account information in the Account Information section. If possible, you should use a separate email account from your regular account, in order to prevent conflicts when checking for new mail. (Screenshot.)
3. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the page.
Manila is now configured to check your email account for new messages. When an email is received whose subject matches your secret subject, it will automatically be posted to your site.
Note: UserLand's servers check for new mail every 15 minutes, so you may need to wait up to 15 minutes for your email to be posted. Server managers can edit this time interval via the Frontier Admin Site.
Authorization options
You can configure how Mail-to-Weblog authorizes incoming email messages to be posted to your weblog using the Secret Subject and Authorized Senders sections of the Mail-to-Weblog prefs page. (Screenshot.)
There are three options for verifying emails by their subject:
1. You can require that the subject exactly match the secret subject. This is the most secure but least flexible option.
2. You can require that the subject begin with the secret subject. With this option enabled, you can have Manila generate news item titles using the portion of the subject after the secret subject.
3. You can have Manila ignore the subject, posting all messages to your weblog. This option should only be used if you have a separate email account for Mail-to-Weblog, since it will consume all messages sent to the account. You might use this option to post all messages from a mailing list to a website.
In addition to the secret subject options, you can restrict Mail-to-Weblog postings to only allow email messages from authorized email addresses, using the Authorized Senders prefs. By default, messages are posted only if they come from the managing editor(s) of the site.
Titles
Manila can create titles for Mail-to-Weblog posts using the date, the subject of the email, the first sentence of the email, or no title at all.
If you choose to use the subject of the email, the secret subject part will be removed from the title of the post.
Notes
If your site is a news-items site, Mail-to-Weblog can be configured to post as pending news items, rather than posting immediately to the home page.
The Mail-to-Weblog feature assumes that email messages are in plain-text format, and you should use the plain-text option in your email program when sending email to your weblog.
Mail-to-Weblog will attempt to preserve simple text formatting like line-breaks and paragraph breaks. If you want to do additional formatting, you can embed HTML markup in the plain-text of your email message, but Mail-to-Weblog will not recognize formatting in HTML-formatted messages.
Attachments in incoming Mail-to-Weblog messages are ignored (and deleted from the POP server along with the message).
Mail-to-Weblog currently only supports POP mail accounts that don't require a secure connection to retrieve mail.
There is limited support for traditional (non-news-items) Manila sites. For these sites, incoming emails will be posted at the top of the current home page. If there's no home page for the day when the email is received, Mail-to-Weblog will automatically flip the home page and post the email on the new home page.
Bulletins
Bulletins provide an easy method for a Managing Editor to send email to Members. When people sign up as Members of your site, they choose whether to receive Bulletins and whether they want the plain text or HTML version. Manila has a simple Web interface to create, preview and send a Bulletin, and a way to check the recipients.
Steps
1. Click the Bulletins link in the Editors Only menu at the top of the page.
2. Enter the Subject and Text information.
3. Click the Preview button to see what the plain text and HTML Bulletins will look like.
4. Click the Edit button to change the Bulletin content, or click the Send button to send it.
Advanced
You can pre-populate the subject and text fields with the Title and Description of a news item, or the Subject and Body/Text of any discussion group message (stories and pictures included) by adding the message number to the URL for the bulletins page.
For example if your site is at http://www.mysite.com/ and you want to send the contents of News Item 23 as a bulletin, go to:
http://www.mysite.com/bulletins/?msgnum=23
Then Preview or Send just like you would with any other bulletin created from scratch.
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Technical dept.
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Many apologies for the server being down over the last couple of days. A combination of www.olearyout.com, www.ellisout.co.uk and www.websites-r-us.org being hit with high levels of SPAM and the fan on the power supply cutting out caused the downtime. Many apologies for any inconvenience these factors may have caused. A big thankyou to Chaplin Computer Consultants for resolving the issue of the fan. I now await a full resolution from Userland for the SPAM attacks (a partial one has already been achieved).
EDIT: 23.03.07 Fully resolved courtesy of Lawrence at Userland.
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Technical dept.
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Are you ready to start Podcasting? This system makes it simple with out of the box file systems and RSS subscription services. This is a simple how-to, to get you started Podcasting.
Configuring the Enclosures feature
1. Go to your site's News Items Prefs page, scroll down to the Enclosures section, and click Yes to Enable the Enclosures feature.
2. Choose Upload a File next to the question, How do you want to add Enclosures. This will allow you to upload your Podcast when you create your news item. (You can also use a Shortcut or URL, if you prefer to upload your Podcasts to another location.)
3. For your Podcasts to be linked on your home page, customize the News Item Template by adding Enclosure macros. There are macros for including the name, url, size and an icon for enclosures. (See this page for a list of specific macros.)
4. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the page.
Your site is now set up for Podcasting.
Creating your first Podcast
1. Use your favorite MP3 recording software to create a file for your first Podcast, and save it to your hard disk.
2. Create a new news item by clicking the News link in Manila's Editors Only menu, and then clicking the Create a News Item link. Type a title and some text for the description.
3. Click the Choose File button next to Enclosure, and pick the MP3 file you just recorded. Then click the Post button:
4. Click Post to Home Page.
You're now a Podcaster!
People who subscribe to your site's RSS feed will see your Podcast as an RSS enclosure, and if their software supports it, the file will be automatically downloaded to their MP3 player.
Notes
The enclosures feature, which is central to Podcasting, is part of Manila's News Items feature. Your site must be a news items site in order to use Manila for Podcasting.
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Promotion, Technical dept.
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DYNDNS Updater changed public IP address from 84.66.53.229 to 81.79.248.56
Sites not available.
Need to go to www.dyndns.com and modify host settings for each and every domain name!!
DynDNS updater does it automatically!
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Technical dept.
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Go for the package and host it myself. Not the Hosting from Manila, as good as it is. Restricted to 50 sites and $1099 EVERY year. Plus:
The Hosted Manila service doesn't include access to the server or to the Admin site, so you would only have access to a form to create new sites. The 50 includes all sub-sites as well.
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Technical dept.
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Buy package after Cuba.
Where is the Files/Gems option?
Site back-ups. Yes or no?
Server: where else can provide co-hosting?
Advertising: Sutton Journal; Lower Farm News
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Technical dept.
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My Lions Blog has been systematically destroyed by a vindictive third party. So I'm setting it up again. Probably at www.lionsblog.org or something similar. I'll lose my 1 million+ hits and all my News Items and entries but hey-ho! I need my Villa fix!! Templates have been downloaded.
# Posted by Lee Baker
from the Technical dept.
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5.2.2012
This site is using the Space theme.
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