• Archives plugin (left side at the bottom of the page): A few lines of JavaScript and CSS take care that just the current year will initially be expanded. Would be too large otherwise.
• LastEntries plugin: It's used twice (just by copy&rename) - on the right side it shows the last five, at the bottom of the page the last ten entries.
• Lightbox2 plugin: Once popped out an image, you can browse through all the page's images without interruption. Due to a static Lightbox group in the "rel" attribute of all images, Lightbox handles all images on the page as one single group.
• ReadMore plugin: I didn't like the readmore link to point at the #readmore anchor somewhere in the middle of the blog entry. After a small change it now points just to the entry's top.
• CustomBBCode plugin: I added some helpful BBcode tags as excellently described at http://wiki.flatpress.org/doc:plugins:bbcode:tips.
  One example is my mail tag. It contains a mail adress obfuscation "borrowed" from moziloCMS which protects from spammers.
• QuickGallery plugin: Another function taken from moziloCMS. Descriptions for the gallery pictures are read from a Properties file located in the gallery directory. It looks something like
  
  • image1.jpg = This is the image's caption to show in the pop-out.
    image2.jpg = Caption of the 2nd image.
    ...and so on.
    
  For now, I create this file manually and upload it via FTP into the gallery directory. It should be possible though to create a tiny admin plugin for that. Who likes to...? ;)
  
• Entry editor: Images and attachments are sorted by name, not by upload date. I also added custom BBCodes and some eye candy to the BBCode toolbar.tpl - looks much more fancy with graphical icons :)

Regards
Arvid

 Take a look:
http://art.georgi.co.uk/ (please use almost anything except IE and its clones to see the MP3 player!)

The options in the menu look like this:

[*]<div class="audio">GO "VISION ON" STYLE &rarr;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
[*][audio]gallerytheme.mp3[/audio]

and in this theme's column.css file I just added this to the end:

#column div.audio{
display:none;
}

Unfortunately this flash player doesn't work in SOME versions of Internet Explorer (a known problem with this plugin), so I'd like to find out why and either fix that or else hide it from IE.

Any ideas folks?

Edit: I found that it DID work in some versions of IE after I posted this!

I've uploaded my copy to the wiki, now that I've found it and got it working - there were a couple of errors in the code with the version I managed to find.

No need to make any special changes - just upload the plugin, enable it, and upload your mp3 files into your fp-content/attachs folder.

You'll also see that there's a fixed background image in the column, and the menu & categories are fixed in place too. I wanted to keep it simple so I don't intend adding anything else there.

If there are any Brits out there, over a certain age, then go ahead and click that play button :D

The music is from the "Gallery" segment of "Vision On" which was British TV show for deaf children. I think the show was shown in a lot of different countries so it might be familiar to a few more people here too.

http://demofppb.us2uk.eu/?x=entry:entry120922-102257

The link above is the description of how it was done and shows you how the static page was coded - the working example itself can be seen by clicking the link you'll see about half-way down the page.

The working example itself describes the Static Entry plugin in more detail - and lists a few advantages and problems I've found. It's perfect for what I want to use it for (creating and maintaining large content in small chunks by a small team using Live Writer), but it doesn't work quite so well if you use the BBCode editor in the admin panel to create your posts (it currently won't decode BBCode, which isn't a problem for Live Writer-generated entries as these use HTML tags to format the content).

And just WHAT has this got to do with FlatPress?

Well, the whole Twitter/Facebook campaign began after one fan saw the FP blog which I started to try and document the demise (and hopefully the resurrection) of the club, and a "Twibbon" campaign was launched which linked right back to my blog, and the choice of using FlatPress was a no-brainer as I know it so well and when the club got into trouble just a couple of weeks ago there were no sites like it - something quick and effective was needed and my FlatPress site was up and running in just a few minutes. 

http://darlo.georgi.co.uk/

I'd just like to explain a little about the blog - it uses a couple of nice features one of which is the scrolling last entries feature at the top. This works really well but I've still got a small problem to iron out before I can share that (it's a jQuery "version" issue, nothing major). It also uses a couple of "sticky post" positions where I've put blockparsers - on on the main page and another which follows the comment box on every post.

The blog also uses the SEO plugin and this, I think, has helped our cause tremendously so I'd like to thank the people who worked so hard on that. Some posts are made by Live Writer using the remote posting plugin - though I ended up posting most stuff manually so I could enter all the SEO information there and then. I also cheated a bit and back-dated a couple of entries using the datechanger plugin, to make it look like I was keeping right up with the fast pace of events (which was impossible in reality). I also used the Extended Image plugin quite a bit too.

You can see the facebook page here - I'm now also an admin for that so you'll see a lot of links there back to the FlatPress blog.

http://www.facebook.com/savedarlingtonfc

Thanks to NWM and everyone who's spent time working on the plugins which have helped our cause.