With the new official release of geeklog, which utilizes descriptive URLs, has the Staticpages plugin essentially become obsolete? I suppose there is still some things you can do with it you otherwise can't, but that can be fixed for a more streamlined product...

For example, I can create a new Topic group, but there would be an additional option called "Hide Topic" which wouldn't show up in the Topics block. Then, there would be a new Blocks option where I could create a Per-Topic Menu Block. So then that block would list the stories for that topic.

Another idea I had was Sticky Pages. In addition to making an article a Featured Article, you could also choose to make it a Sticky Article. That way it would stay at the top on the Topic page, kind of like an "About this Topic" option or just a story you want to keep primary focus.

That's all the ideas I have for today.

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Still I would like to have the difference between a page that becomes "old" after some time and a page that stays the same such as "About..." etc. Not all of them would belong into a topic for that matter. Also, I would not want to list them with a header like the stories.



I think it would generally be a good idea to have several possibly featured pages. Like this, very topic would have its own as you mentioned. It would, of course disbale the function that if you select story x to be featured, story z would not be automatically "un-featured", so you would have to do it manually. This could be a config.php setting however. Several featured stories on the same topic or frontpage would them simply all use the featured-story template.

I think you're right... maybe I'm trying to overcomplicate things in the name of simplification.

Well what I am going to do is hack the staticpages plugin just a little. Going to get rid of the staticpages folder, rename the index.php to resources.php (or maybe static.php?) and just adjust the code to write the new links.

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