I upgraded to EE 2.1 and now I can’t seem to save the templates as files. Gives me the following error:

“Unable to save your template as a text file”

I ran some searches on EE’s forum and people recommend verifying (or changing) folder permissions to 777, which I did but still no luck.

Have you run into this?

- A

This week however things have calmed down a bit and I’m back to what I hope will be a regular development schedule.

The new kit for EE 2.0 will do a few things differently and will raise the bar a bit as far as site performance. It uses a half-dozen or so Snippets, a few custom queries and a slightly different template group set up than the current kits do. The payoff for these changes is a faster website and multilingual capabilities that will scale better for large sites.

There are no anticipated changes in the structure of eeSiteKit’s URL/URIs or 404 error checking, so sites transitioning to the new kit should work just about the same for site visitors. Where things will change is in how template groups are set up and how a some of the templates work with each other.

eeSiteKit has many features and systems that will have to be recoded to work with the changes of EE 2.0 and for the improvements we’re making to the next kit. Here’s a list of what’s now coded and some of what we’ll be working on next:

Things that are done:
- Proper 404 errors (and response headers) when segment 1, 2 or 3 is not a match with an actual site page.
- Option of combining landing and category display templates for site designs that don’t have a separate layout for the landing page. This will be the new default.
- Top-level “landing” pages are now created by naming a category the same as the channel it’s assigned to.
- Dynamic main navigation row with dropdown menus that properly handles optional landing pages.
- Dynamic sub-navigation that properly handles optional landing pages.
- Default navigation query caching that saves approximately 2 queries per page load without sticking when new categories are added.
- Dynamic read-more links.
- Dynamic Sitemap that properly handles optional landing pages. Also removes empty categories from the map.
- Dynamic <title>tags</title>
- engine_template_wrapper (new way of streamlining the creation and management of custom templates by reducing redundant code in display templates)
- Multilingual content, navigation and URL/URL systems.

Things to do still:
- Update display templates to YAML 3.2.1
- Bread crumbs
- Pre-coded forms
- Quick edit link engine
- Printable Page
- Share with a Friend / Tell a Friend
- Pages Module integration
- Blog Comments
- Pagination Solution
- Search Results with correct links back to content.
- Channel Heading
- Dynamic Meta Data (for self-set keyword and description tags)

As I get some of these things checked off my list, I’ll report back here. I know there are a few of you who are itching to get move your eeSiteKit 2.0 install over from EE 1.6.8 to EE 2.0 Public Beta. Please understand that I am as eager as you to start using the kit in EE 2.0 and will be coding on the new kit as much as my schedule allows over the weeks ahead.

Thank you for using eeSitekit!

1) If I want a specific category (or single page) template to be used for a specific category or single entry, how do I do that? I am assuming I need to follow the logic of checking whether the segment == something in the site_system/index template then load that particular template?

2) If I want to make the nav only the top level categories (basically remove the dropdown for all tabs) what’s the easiest way to do this without having to handcode a new template?

3) Custom fields. I really need some assistance on how I can use customfields for particular categories. I have about 11 channels that need specific fields for each template associated for each category AND channel.

Thanks in advance.

- Andy

Hope you are keeping busy:)  A quick question regarding the menu system in eesitekit when used on iPhone/iPad….if I do not have a landing page (i.e it is not a link) for one of the main navigation pages it seems very hard/impossible to get the menu to drop-down so you can select the children menu items….

Have you seen this anywhere else on your sites (I see most of yours appear to have landing pages for all major site sections) and if so, any idea how to overcome it?  I’m guessing it’s basically an issue that you cannot “hover” on a i-something !!

I realise it’s not really a eeSiteKit issue, just thought I’d ask in case you’ve already solved this one.

Thanks,
Martin

2.) I need to build breadcrumb navigation with home - category - subcategory - product .. this needs to also be bilingual. Is this possible easily with ee sitekit?  Could I just pull from the URL? {segment_1… etc}

3.) Would the ee interface be different for my clients? Wouldnt they still log into expression engine and then use EDIT or PUBLISH button to manage site? Or wold that change? isnt sitekit used only in the backend, on template pages etc, for the developer?

I thought I would create a thread with my comments for the installation and instructions.

First up! You could probably change the “site_css/index” template:

@charset “UTF-8”;
@import url(http://www.asitedomain.com/index.php/site_css/yaml_slim_base);
@import url(http://www.asitedomain.com/index.php/site_css/yaml_basemod);
@import url(http://www.asitedomain.com/index.php/site_css/yaml_content);
@import url(http://www.asitedomain.com/index.php/site_css/yaml_forms);
@import url(http://www.asitedomain.com/index.php/site_css/navigation);

To the following:

@charset “UTF-8”;
@import url({global_url}site_css/yaml_slim_base);
@import url({global_url}site_css/yaml_basemod);
@import url({global_url}site_css/yaml_content);
@import url({global_url}site_css/yaml_forms);
@import url({global_url}site_css/navigation);

Along the lines of the {global_url} variable, do you want the trailing slash in the variable? Your markup appears to need it in the actual content of the variable. Might want to mention that in the instructions (sorry if you already did I might have overlooked that).

More to come!

Best,

- Andy

Please help.

Thanks,

- Andy

In order to do this would I still create a landing entry but just not use the content and then adjust the landing template to pull in articles from each category?