BigChiefLabs

Yslow is a new Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug and created by Yahoo. It’s an interesting tool that I use to optimize and speed up every web page I’m working on!

Radiant Gallery extension 0.5.0 is just released! Now you can set set name and description for each gallery and gallery item.

I wrote some example in the README file, check it out!

I fixed some bugs in the CopyMove extension. Now you can copy the whole tree of a page under one of its children…you can also duplicate the hompage..if you already use this extension, download the latest release!

I changed the name of my Radiant duplicate extension…now it’s called CopyMove!  Check it out!!!

In the latest release (0.4.1) of the Radiant Gallery extension I added the ‘link’ tag for each gallery item. With this new tag you can use Gallery extension to display a set of file that aren’t images..and link directly to each item instead of display a thumbnail. I use this feature to display my band album. I created a new hidden gallery uploading all the mp3’s, and then I created a new page with this code:

<r:gallery id="3">
<h4><r:gallery:name /></h4>
<ol>
  <r:gallery:items:each>
    <li><r:gallery:item:link /></li>
  </r:gallery:items:each>
</ol>
</r:gallery>

..and this is the result:

Radiant Duplicate extension 1.6 is just released…you can now duplicate or move a page and all its children.

Sometimes, using radiant to build a site, I need to generate many pages with the same page parts and the same contents, aside a few things..instead of copy all the page parts and all the contents I created the Radiant Duplicate extension. It adds a new action (duplicate) near the ‘Add child’ button:

I’m working on a new website, and I’m obviously using Radiant as CMS. My client need to manage some links…some of this are displayed in the sidebar, others in an other page; each link has an image. I simply created two differents galleries using my Gallery extension; the first one called ‘Links’ and the second one called ‘Sidebar Links’..then i added this code in the layout inside the sidebar:

<r:gallery id="1">

  <r:gallery:items:each>

    <li><a href="<r:gallery:item:description />"><img src="<r:gallery:item:thumb width="200" />" /></a></li>

  </r:gallery:items:each>

</r:gallery>

…and similar in the links page. Now i can simply add a link uploading an image in one of the two galleries, and setting the link url as image description.

There are two main changes on Radiant Gallery Extension…the first one is visible in the admin page…do you want to use an image from the web instead of upload it? Switch to “set file url” mode and specify its url!

The second change is visibile using the lightbox tag:

<r:gallery:lightbox />

…this is the new visualization:

…try it now!

Radiant 0.6 is to be release this Saturday. Sean Cribbs wrote a post about all the changes of the new release…check it out!