Optional Necessity

Serendipity templates utilize a page structure that includes a main content pane and sidebar containers, often positioned left and/or right of the main content. But what if you want a top or bottom "sidebar"? How about more than two?

How do you code that information into your template, and present - and secure - it to other users of your custom serendipity templates if they are publically distributed? Template configuration and Smarty code can easily provide the solution for any of your custom serendipity templates. [ Continue reading "Additional sidebars for ... » ]

In my 2008 list of new year objectives I expressed an interest in continuing to contribute toward Serendipity plugins when I could. A great deal of effort has been spent updating Serendipity's karma voting plugin resulting in the release of version 2.0 and I contributed four simple yellow/green and yellow/red star images, in three different sizes to that version. I have also installed the plugin here at Optional Necessity and will be using it from this point forward.

The Serendipity karma voting plugin is a "core" plugin, meaning it is distributed with every Serendipity release version. This also means we don't want to overload it with too many images that bloat the overall plugin size. So I chose not to include a lot of other images that I created for the plugin, but they are now available for download to really make the graphical version of the new karma voting plugin shine!
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