Create a simple signup page to attract customers leading up to launch. Once you have Graffiti set up and you are posting content you’ll probably want to be notified by Graffiti when new user comments are made or if someone uses your contact form. So, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your e-mail settings are configured properly. Log into Graffiti as [...]
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If you are using the Blog Extensions plug-in for Graffiti you may start seeing comments on your site that are not being published. This is likely because the theme you choose did not support showing trackbacks by default since they weren’t part of the core GraffitiCMS app. Kudo’s goes to Jeff, who did an outstanding [...]
I moved this post up after a comment on Tellitip 15 reminded me that if you are using the free version of Graffiti you don’t get stats built in. You still have an option, however, to use any number of stat tracking utilities on the web. Graffiti allows you to insert tracking scripts into the [...]
04/09/2008
If you’ve recently downloaded Graffiti then you are likely running the most recent version, but how can you find out for sure? To verify the version of Graffiti you are running you can view the page properties on your site. In Firefox right click on your site and click "Page Info". You’ll see the following [...]
Jim Martin spent the weekend creating a great plug-in for Graffiti that makes it super simple to insert streaming Silverlight media into your posts. The download and usage instructions are here. Note that this should be considered a beta/demo/(however you say not officially supported). I should also not that because of that installing this plug-in, [...]
04/04/2008
So you’ve been posting pages and content for a while with GraffitiCMS and realized that your original categorization of posts was incorrect. That’s OK, blogging and content generation are organic things and as your site grows you’ll discover what information architecture works best for your visitors. But now you might be afraid to change your [...]
This tip really comes from Jeftek who left a comment on my tip for showing full post content in Graffiti. He has some great suggestions on how you can improve what’s shown in excerpts. Essentially you can tell Graffiti exactly what to put in the excerpt by filling out both the body and extended body [...]
I saw this question in the Graffiti Support forums and figured I’d turn it into a tip. By default most Graffiti themes only publish the post excerpt on the home or other index pages (like tags) because, for SEO reasons, most search engines don’t like duplicate content on sites. But lets pretend you are throwing [...]
The control panel post lists in Graffiti and Community server don’t offer a search functionality (yet) that would make it easy to find and edit existing posts. The easy work around for this problem is to make sure you are signed into your account and use the site search to find your post. [...]
Kevin Harder created a Graffiti plugin that uses the Slide.Show Silverlight photo gallery control. This plugin allows you to use Flickr, Picassa, or photo albums stored on your server. Download the plugin, which is located here: http://kevinharder.com/downloads/graffiti/slide-show-plugin/ Copy the Copy the Graffiti.Slide.Show.dll file into the /bin folder on your web site. In Graffiti, as [...]
