Kinetic is Serendipity template designed to publish content for news or magazine styled template. However, what exactly does the format "magazine" mean?
When Kinetic was
originally released, the screenshots and demo primarily focussed on using Kinetic as a news template. Being a news template, one would expect a front page presentation organized by categories. This is a key concept of a news template. But Kinetic can display content in much the same manner with less emphasis on categories, and more focus on the content. This is what I will call a "magazine" format, and Kinetic can do this easily by making a few simple changes to its configuration options.
In the screenshot to the left, Kinetic has been configured to retrieve all of its frontpage entries from a single category. This example features the built-in blue colorset and does not use Kinetic's "tabbed" content boxes. The individual "boxed" content has switched off all meta data, such as comments, trackbacks, author, publish dates, etc, and has also disabled the display of the box title. Kinetic, by default, will prevent duplicate content from one box to the next, so each box displays a single unique entry.
Configuring Kinetic in this manner requires nothing more than simple choices - code modifications are NOT necessary. Although this example disabled all meta information (author, dates, etc), that decision rests with the site administrator - as much, or as little, information can be displayed as desired and can be configured like this example for the frontpage display, yet differently for a detailed page view.
The quantity, and types of content boxes (tabbed, full width, half width) are also configurable, as are the number of stories appearing within each box. Configuring Kinetic in this way is discussed in greater detail in the support forum:
Kinetic as a magazine template.
For more information on Kinetic, check out the
original blog post,
support forum and
demo. The demo includes additional links to
purchase details,
premium colorsets, and an
affiliate program which earns you a commission if you promote Kinetic via your own website.