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29 December 2006

What does it mean? What does the phrase "You may now want to generate static posts or view your blogs", that appears after you've made a post, mean? [I may have gotten the wording slightly wrong, since it only appears after you made a post.]

post by: matildaben at: 17:43 | 13 comments

OK, here's the real wording:
You may also want to generate static pages or view your blogs...

posted by matildaben 29 December | 17:44

I'm sure it's a b2evolution message telling you that, if you have a high enough privilege level, you can generate a static site. Or, you can go off an view the list of weblogs the CMS contains.

posted by cmonkey 29 December | 17:55

Trickery. Pure flamfoolery. Flim-flam. Snake-oil. Misdirection, the slight of a magician's hand. A plot, perhaps from the far right. Connivery, underhanded and with belly dragging the ground. Wangling, diddling, contrived cabal collusions, utterly cooked-up chicanery. A fast shuffle, fourberie, fraud, funny business. A shell-game of knavish razzle-dazzle & monkeyshines.

Shenanigans.

IT MEANS NOTHING!

By God, don't trust it.

posted by shane 29 December | 18:06

cmonkey - so if that's the case, it has absolutely no relevance to those of us making posts. Why isn't it invisible?

posted by matildaben 29 December | 18:13

That is a question that I cannot answer, I'm afraid. Maybe there isn't a template for it?

posted by cmonkey 29 December | 18:36

What ARE static pages? What is an example of an unstatic page?

posted by Lipstick Thespian 29 December | 18:37

a static page is a page that slides its feet back and forth on the carpet, sneaks up on you and ZAP on the back of the neck. :)

static dynamic - it's straight HTML. nothing changes unless you actually alter the code and replace the old file with the new one.

posted by syntax 29 December | 18:51

LT, if static has the meaning it usually does, I presume it means a page that never changes, where the text and graphic content is always the same, instead of generated from a database like Metachat is. The opposite of static is dynamic.

posted by matildaben 29 December | 18:52

i tried to make the programming equivalent to a "does not equal", but apparently it got interpreted as an empty tag.

static does not equal dynamic.

posted by syntax 29 December | 18:52

you have to type the HTML encoding out, syntax

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posted by matildaben 29 December | 18:57

yes, b2evo is set up so that you can have a lot of different users each with their own blogs. I remember I tried to find that message page to change it a longlong time ago, but couldn't find it, and then I guess after a while I just stopped noticing the message. I oughtta go look for it again.

posted by taz 29 December | 18:59

Nah, leave it as is. If we don't have at least a few users who are totally confused, we can't have any fun!

posted by wendell 29 December | 19:53

If this is the first time I've mentioned it, and I've been on Metachat since day 1, obviously whatever momentary confusion I've had at the moment right after posting hasn't had a lasting enough impact to make me mention it before now.

I usually am viewing a few blogs at any moment anyway.

posted by matildaben 30 December | 01:14

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