ninja

Here I show you step by step how to transform a wordpress template into a Blogs Organizer template.

Prepare your site in Blogs Organizer. Go to 'Regular Blogs > Add New' and fill out all the fields. At 'Blog Template' just choose anyone, it doesn't matter which one you take at this point, it will change anyway.

After setting everything up press 'ADD' at the bottom of the page. Before you continue working with Blogs Organizer choose a wordpress template of your choice. Wordpress templates look difficult because it uses include for the header, footer and so on, forget about that just copy the source code of the RENDERED wordpress template into your favorite text editor.

Now go back to Blogs Organizer and scroll down the page until you see the section '* Main Template:' Above the content part of this section you see all the tokens you can use in the blog template. Copy %%TITLE%% and place it in the title tag of the template you have in your text editor. Let's say (since we used the already rendered wordpress template) there is already a title like for example:

replace that with

What happens is that the token '%%TITLE%%' will be replaced with the title you entered for your blog in BO. Do the same with the tokens %%DESCRIPTION%%, %KEYWORDS%% for the meta description and meta keywords. Just replace the existing content with the tokens like you did with the title. Also place the tokens %%LINKTRADES,10%%, RECENTPOSTS,10%% (or %%RECENTPOSTS_LI,10%%), %%SITEMAP%% and %%BLOG_RSS%% into the sidebar(S) of the template in your text editor. Put it in the right format. If you don'T know what I'm talking about just place it there and look at the output once we're done, you'll see what this tokens are good for and will understand how to format them. If you wish to manage your linktrades with Blogs Organizer (I'd suggest you use Links Organizer for this) also place %%LINKTRADES,10%% into the sidebar. This token will be replaced with
another template, the 'Link Trades Template' which you find right above the 'Main Template'.

Now comes something some newbies might find complicated. You need to understand the 'loop' in blogs. Take a look at the content part in the template you have in your text editor. Most blog templates are mostly CSS templates and very often the content part of such a blog is within a 'content' div:

Now there will be some posts aready in this content part, we don't need them, we just need ONE post. You need to find out which DIV tags are for the posts. It may sound complicated but it's not. Each posts starts with the same div tag like for example <div class="entry">. So when you see something like

you see see where the post starts and where it ends. Now grab exactly one post and copy it into a new page in your text editor. Delete all the posts in the content section of your wordpress blog but not the content DIVs.

Let's take a look at a sample post:

First of all, delete everything we don't need like for example the trackback. Also place the tokens you find in the section 'Post Template:' in bo at the right spots in the post template in your text editor. For example

would be replace with

the footer part should look like this after changing it:

Notice that I deleted the comment part, simply because Blogs Organizer doesn't support comments at the moment. So we don't need that part and delete it. Also replace the whole content of the post in your editor with %%BODY%% and place all other tags at the correct position. After changing my sample post it should look like this:

There are some more tags you can use in your post template, if you want to know what they are good for simply place them in your post template and take a look at the output once the blog is ready!

Now copy this post template and past the code into the '* Post Template:' section of Blogs Organizer.

We deleted everything in the content section of the wordpress template before, remember? Now it's time to place another token right in the content section. In Blogs Organizer there is a token available in the main template section called %%POSTS%%. Put this in the content part of your wordpress template now, it should look similar to this:


copy the whole wordpress template from your editor and replace the existing content from '* Main Template:' in Blogs Organizer with it.

Click update at the bottom of the page.

Upload your blog files where you want your blog to appear.

Now you will notice that you blog will look fucked up, simply because we didn't upload the images and the css file of the wordpress template yet (in case it has images). So upload the images and the css file and make sure the paths in the template are correct...

This is it actually, this might look much for a newbie but once you actually understand it (this will happen if you just do it a couple of times) the whole procedure shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes...

thx for your attention :-)

kaktusan

now thats great tutorial, thanks!

i'm sure it will help lots of people

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kaz

This should be made into a sticky, as I'm sure it will come in handy for lots of people. Thanks Ninja for the info!

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R.V

Wow nice tutorial. Thanks a lot Ninja

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Nice tutorial for sure!

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zivko82

Nice Tutorial man Thanks!

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jibstar

Nice tutorial, I've been doing for a while now the only problem I have is when I add the %%CALENDAR%% tag the calendar numbers are so big they take up a quarter width of the page, do you know how to make the calendar smaller?

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DrPimp

Nice tutorial! I was actually looking how to do it. Now that's gonna be easier.

Thanks!

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ninja

Although it's not the best solution because the table is set to 280px you can still define everything with css.

For example when you put this in your css file:

the table won't be 280px, it will be 150px

I didn't try it now but I'm sure you can somehow change the size of the numbers with css too, here are all classes you can use:

http://support.cheapestwebsoftware.c...topic.php?p=46

kaktusan

yes, with all the css classes listed at that support page, one can customize the calendar to look exactly like he wants.

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wizzbang

It seems I have a RAM problem on my server and have to Upgrade. My technician tells me that Wordress Blogs use a lot more database that Blog Organizer.

So I should save a lot of RAM if I make my current wordpress template workable on Blog Organizer - Yes?

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Hmm, got to find something good to put in here

R.V

Yes thats correct, the template doesn't matter, if you have a blogs organizer based blog it will use considerably less server resources than a wordpress based blog.

mm107

GREAT MOTHER Fin Tutorial

=]

just add
.cal_table {
width:150px;
}

into your CSS File, or HTML (if u don't use a style sheet).

My Calendar is ALWAYS messed up until i specificy how big i want the cal,

Also, make a note, if your WP Template calls for a "title image", make sure to edit it in the post template.

I converted a WP Theme,
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to

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There is an image that is behind each post title(the pink area with the hearts above/behind each post title) i just had to add the style into the post template and it worked great.

Make sure to Add a Sitemap + Google Sitemap to the footer for better crawling.

This tutorial will help me greatly! Thanks!

Now ill be buying some WP Templates to convert =]

Thanks for this tutoria, now i can start up my BO network of blogs, as i was using WP because the themes with BO, are not up to my standards, but now i can edit them!!!!!!

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l13st

nice thanks friend

mcluvin

nice ill give it a try