FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MINIM TEMPLATE

The following instructions assume you've installed Textpattern 4.0.4 or later OK and you haven't altered anything or added any content. Where this affects the minim installation, you will be advised below as to what to do should you have made any changes. For brief instructions, please use 1nstructions.txt.


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PRELIMINARIES 
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1 Using your file transfer client, eg Filezilla, transfer 'copper.ttf' to the folder that contains 'public_html'.

2 Go to the root of your site (where there are 'files', 'images' and 'textpattern' folders). Create a new folder called '_templates'. Change its file attributes to 777, ie full access. (In Filezilla you right-click on the folder, choose file attributes and click all the boxes so it changes to 777). The _templates folder is essential to make installing minim easy. Otherwise it will take over an hour.

3 Create a new remote folder within _templates called minim.

4 In your local minim folder you will find these folders: forms, images, pages, plugins, style, write. f t p forms, pages and style folders over into the remote minim folder. Open your local images folder and f t p the contents over to the remote images folder. chmod it to 777.

5 When done you should have the following directory structure: root of your site (with files, images, textpattern) > _templates > minim > forms, pages, style.

Now we can leave the f t p and go into the Textpattern admin


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IN THE TXP ADMIN TAB 
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1 Click the Preferences tab and use the following settings:

Permanent Link Mode: /section/title
Use Textile: Leave text untouched
Accept comments: yes
On by default: yes
Automatically append comments to articles: no

SAVE. 

2 Click Advanced and use the following settings:

Custom field 1 name  metadesc
Custom field 2 name  metakeyw
Custom field 3 name  cssinhead
Custom field 4 name  summary
Custom field 5 name  cols
Custom field 6 name  himidlo
Custom field 7 name  lefjus

title_no_widow *or* Prevent widowed words in article titles: no

SAVE.

3 Open the TXP Plugins tab. In your local minim plugin folder, you open the following files one by one with a text editor, select all and copy. Then return to the TXP Plugins textarea and paste. Then click Upload. Click Install. Under Active, change the No to Yes by clicking on it. The plugin is then installed. (Note that in Windows select all = Ctrl + A, copy = Ctrl + C, and paste = Ctrl + V)

# hcg_templates-0.3.txt - This is Bert Garcia's plugin which will make installing this template very easy.
# zem_contact-0.6.txt - This is Alex Shiel's contact form plugin.
# zem_ir-0.5.txt - This is Alex Shiel's font to image replacement plugin.
# upm_savenew.txt - This is Mary Fredborg's plugin. It is optional but you need it if you are going to use article templates.

If something does not install right, it is best to start again and repeat the process. Causes are usually something small like a dot or bracket missing when you copy.


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IN THE TXP TEMPLATES TAB 
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When you installed Bert's plugin, it will have created an extensions tab and a Templates tab within it. In here you can click a dropdown and see what templates are available to import. minim should be listed. If it is not, I'm afraid there's a problem with the preliminary f t p of the _templates folder or minim folder or the file attributes so you'll have to check and redo where necessary.

Assuming it's OK, select minim and click Go. As if by magic, Bert's wonderful plugin makes a backup and then imports the minim forms, page templates and style sheets! This would take over an hour manually but only takes a couple of ticks with the plugin. Nice one, Bert!

It does not import the write folder contents. 


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IN THE TXP PRESENTATION TAB 
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***** SECTIONS *****

Default. Leave both these settings at Default.

about. Alter the about settings to the following:
Section name: about
Section title: About
Uses page: minim_archive
Uses style: default
Selected by default? no
On front page? yes
Syndicate? yes
Include in site search? yes
**SAVE.**

articles. Alter the settings to the following:
Section name: articles
Section title: Articles
Uses page: minim_archive
Uses style: default
Selected by default? yes
On front page? yes
Syndicate? yes
Include in site search? yes
**SAVE.**

Create some sections using this data. Make sure you Save after each individual section.

Section name: contact
Section title: Contact
Uses page: minim_contact
Uses style: default
Selected by default? no 
On front page? no
Syndicate? no
Include in site search? no
**SAVE.**

Section name: sitemap
Section title: Sitemap
Uses page: minim_search
Uses style: default
Selected by default? no
On front page? no
Syndicate? no
Include in site search? no
**SAVE.**


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IN THE TXP CONTENT TAB 
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***** CATEGORIES *****

Create any categories you like, but create one called 'category' and never use it. It is needed for the breadcrumb trails.

***** IMAGES *****

The logo is 480px wide by 56px high. You can change this in the minim stylesheet, where you will find it near the bottom in the Main Menu section. Look for: url(../images/minimb.gif). As long as you use an image of this size or less it will align nicely. You may also need to change the url because of security issues on some servers. So you may end up with something like this: url(http://yoursite.com/images/yourlogo.gif).

***** WRITE *****

Please create the following 3 articles, copying from your local minim write folder. 

1 Sticky. You can alter this for your own front page. It should have an ID of 2. If it hasn't you open the default page template and alter id="2" to whatever your id is.

2 More Minim. May be useful for article templates.

3 Access. An accessibility statement.

4 The other documents in the write folder are optional.

************  ALL DONE! ENJOY! ***************