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About skins...
By animalfarm on Sep 18, 2009 | In b2evolution Tips | Send feedback »
By default, b2evolution blogs are displayed using a skin.
You can change the skin used by any blog by editing the blog settings in the admin interface.
You can download additional skins from the skin site. To install them, unzip them in the /blogs/… more »
About widgets...
By animalfarm on Sep 18, 2009 | In b2evolution Tips | Send feedback »
b2evolution blogs are installed with a default selection of Widgets. For example, the sidebar of this blog includes widgets like a calendar, a search field, a list of categories, a list of XML feeds, etc.
You can add, remove and reorder widgets from t… more »
Skins, Stubs, Templates & website integration...
By animalfarm on Sep 18, 2009 | In b2evolution Tips | Send feedback »
By default, blogs are displayed using a skin. (More on skins in another post.)
This means, blogs are accessed through 'index.php', which loads default parameters from the database and then passes on the display job to a skin.
Alternatively, if you… more »
Apache optimization...
By animalfarm on Sep 18, 2009 | In b2evolution Tips | Send feedback »
In the /blogs folder there is a file called [sample.htaccess]. You should try renaming it to [.htaccess].
This will optimize the way b2evolution is handled by the webserver (if you are using Apache). This file is not active by default because a few ho… more »
Clean Permalinks!
By animalfarm on Sep 18, 2009 | In b2evolution Tips | Send feedback »
b2evolution uses old-style permalinks and feedback links by default. This is to ensure maximum compatibility with various webserver configurations.
Nethertheless, once you feel comfortable with b2evolution, you should try activating clean permalinks i… more »
