Premade Templates
The Premade Templates section is a drop down menu that is available to you when you login to your Blogs Organizer admin area. "Premade Templates" are universal/initial templates you can use when creating new blog. While you are adding a new blog into the script you choose from some of the premade templates and that template is being copied to the blog, and is assigned as blog template which you can independently edit to make it fit exactly to your blog design needs.
Add New Template
From here you add a new premade template into the system database. You can maintain an unlimited number of premade templates with Blogs Organizer. At this page, you will see a form with a couple of fields which define the premade template:
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Name - define a name by which you will identify the premade template in the system.
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Post Template - define how you would like to display a single post on your blog. This template is used for displaying all your posts on your blog. There are couple of tokens to use:
- %%TITLE%% - this token is replaced by your post title.
- %%BODY%% - this token is replaced by the body/content of your post.
- %%DATE%% - this token is replaced by the publishing date of your post.
- %%LINK%% - this token is replaced by the permalink to your post. This is the link to the individual post page.
- %%TECHNOCRATI%% - this token is replaced with your post keywords linked to technocrati.com
- %%DELICIOUS%% - this token is replaced with your post keywords linked to del.icio.us
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%%RSS_LINK%% - this token is replaced with the url from the link tag of the RSS feeds.
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Linktrades Template - define how you would like to display a single hardlink trade on your blog. This template is used for displaying all your hardlink trades on your blogs. There are couple of tokens to use:
- %%NUM%% - this token is replaced by the corresponding auto incrementing number of the linktrade in the linktrades list.
- %%URL%% - this token is replaced by the URL of the hardlink trade.
- %%TITLE%% - this token is replaced by the title/name of the hardlink trade.
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%%DESCRIPTION%% - this token is replaced by the description of the hardlink trade.
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Main Template - define how you would like your whole blog page look like. This is the main design of your whole blog site. This template is used to build your whole blog site. There are couple of tokens to use:
- %%BOMETA%% - this token is replaced by the special meta tag for including your RSS feed to your blog. This token must be placed between your head tags.
- %%TITLE%% - this token is replaced by the title/name of your blog. It can be used for title tag of your blog or just to display your blog name somewhere in the page.
- %%DESCRIPTION%% - this token is replaced by the description of your blog. It can be used for description meta tag of your blog or just to display your blog description somewhere in the page.
- %%KEYWORDS%% - this token is replaced by the keywords of your blog. It can be used for keywords meta tag of your blog or just to display your blog keywords somewhere in the page.
- %%POSTS%% - this token is replaced by the posts of your blog. The "Post Template" is used to create the posts section and is put on the place of this token.
- %%LINKTRADES,10%% - this token is replaced by the hardlink trades of your blog. You can change the 10 number to any number you want, according to how many linktrades you want to display on your blog.
- %%RECENTPOSTS,10%% - this token is replaced by links to your most recent posts of your blog. You can change the 10 number to any number you want, according to how many recent posts you want to display on your blog.
- %%SITEMAP%% - this token is replaced by the URL to your blog site map. The site map, contains pure and simple links to all posts of your blog. This sitemap page is used mainly for SEO and not for the visitors.
- %%NEXT_BLOG_URL%% - this token is replaced by the url for another blog from that category. It can be used for navigation menu in the blogger style on top of your blogs or for anything else you can find useful to display a link for another blog from the same category from your blogs empire.
- %%NEXT_BLOG_TITLE%% this token is replaced by the title for the next blog definition above.
- %%NEXT_BLOG_DESCR%% this token is replaced by the description for the next blog definition above.
- %%CALENDAR%% - this token is being replaced with a calendar that handles your posts archives for your blog.
- %%BLOG_URL%% - this token is being replaced with the full blog url. It is useful for bookmark links and for every other reason you might need to display the actual blog url.
- %%GSITEMAP%% - this token is being replaced with the full url to the google sitemap created for the blog.
Manage Templates
From here you can manipulate your existing premade templates. You get a full list with the premade templates you already have in your script. You can rename, edit and delete them.
The Premade Templates are independent templates. They are used just for initial templates for a new blog. Once you add a blog and choose a premade template for it, the premade template is being copied to the blog. If you edit/delete Premade Template that won't affect on your existing blog templates. If you edit a blog template it won't affect your Premade Template!
Any kind of code is allowed in the temlates like HTML, PHP , Java Script and etc.