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Tutorial: How can I enable comments to my site?

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

That’s actually a trick question. Comments are already enabled but you need to add a few things to your templates to display the comments and form.

You can do this many ways but these are the steps we recommend.
1) Add a template called ‘Comments’. This will be for displaying existing comments and displaying the form to leave a new one
2) Add a template called ‘Comment’. This will be for displaying an individual comment
3) Add a template called ‘New Comment’. This is the form for leaving a new comment
4) In your article template, include the new ‘Comments’
There’s sample code for each step at the end of this post.
But first, a few technical details. (more…)

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Template Data – Part 4: The Issue Drop

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Issues represent the printed editions of your newspaper. You aren’t obligated to use issues to organize your content, but it does help readers navigate your site, especially those who are looking for an article that appeared in a certain issue of your newspaper. Issues are special; they can have an attached PDF.

Issue are generally accessed through the newspaper.latest_issues array, newspaper.latest_issue or through the “issues” array on an issues index page template.
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Don’t be alarmed

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Hey folks,

I’m about to post a ton of HotInk documentation that was previously only available on our email list serv and authored by Chris and Andrew. These articles are easy to find: they’re all in the Documentation category.

You can thank me later.

Mark

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Welcome to Hot Ink

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

There’s a lot of big scary changes going on right now in the world of journalism (you’ve probably read about it on your iPhone).

Chances are, the journalism career you end up with will be a lot different from what you’ve imagined. The way that news is created, produced, and distributed to the public is currently in a state of flux and no-one has any idea where things will settle out. It seems scary, but it’s also pretty exciting. I’m sure there were a lot of scared Benedictine monks out there when Gutenberg started showing off his flashy printing press, but eventually they realized that it was the perfect tool to help them get their message across.

This is why we’ve created Hot Ink.

Hot Ink was designed and created by former Canadian student newspaper staff to help bridge the gap between traditional print journalism and whatever comes next, and to ensure that Canadian student newspapers can continue to deliver poignant, insightful, and quality content to their campuses. We want to make sure that Canadian student newspapers don’t get left behind while the industry changes around them, and that they have the resources to stay on the cutting edge where they belong.
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