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Message Grouping In Thunderbird

russ — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:02:26 +0000

Another in my line of “things I will forget unless I write them down”.

Using Thunderbird as your email client?

Like to have your messages grouped by day, yesterday, last week and so on? See a picture of what I mean.
To do this, click on the “Date” coloumn and then hit the G button, and there you have it.

Full explaination in the MozillaZine Knowledge Base – http://kb.mozillazine.org/Message_Grouping

Two nice hacks for Wordpress

russ — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:34:33 +0000

Thought I better note these down before I lose them again.

Showing posts by Author
Pasting content from MS Word

Showing Posts By Author

This one uses the template tags within wordpress.

Edit sidebar.php (not the one in /wp-admin/, look in /wp-content/themes// )

The Wordpress Codex explains how to use it.

On the Kete Dev Blog, I have set it up like this.

Authors

So don’t show the admin, use peoples full names and show the number of posts for each author.

Pasting content from MS Word

Although WordPress uses the TinyMCE editor by default, I couldn’t find an easy way of enabling the Paste from Word feature, that we are trialling with Kea. However I did find this plugin WordPress Plain Text Paste Plugin

I have installed it and it seems to work fine. Thanks Peter!

Corporate Serials Module Docs

russ — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:24:15 +0000

The coporate serials module we have been working on for Koha is finally finished and has been committed to HEAD.

Amanda has prepared some user documentation which helps to explain how the module works.

Corporate Serials User Guide (Open Office Document Format- 766kb)

Corporate Serials User Guide (PDF Format – 666kb)

Original Specification (On the LibLime Wiki)

Reverting a file that has been deleted by accident

russ — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:41:54 +0000

A little known kea hack. If you delete a file, you can reinstate it yourself by making a new file with exactly the same file name as the old file. It doesn’t matter what Page title and meta information you give it on the Edit Info screen, just go through and save.

Now that you have created a new page with the old file name, got to the file history for the page. You will get the complete history, including your accidental delete

23rd Jun 3:22 PM Created using template /templates/plain.txt by russel@katipo.co.nz 1.27 (Revert to this version)

23rd Jun 3:20 PM Triggered delete by russel@katipo.co.nz

23rd Jun 3:19 PM File deleted by russel@katipo.co.nz 18th Mar 2004

If you don’t have the appropriate Kea privileges to revert the file, contact one of us here at Katipo and we can do it for you.

See an example in pictures in the Katipo gallery>>