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  • Community Server 2008 - How to Support Widgets in a Custom Theme

    After updating a custom theme for CS2008 , support for widgets can be added. Community Server 2008 provides built-in support for extending Dynamic Theme Configuration to support selecting custom widgets to be displayed within a theme. CS2008 includes widgets for showing post lists, user lists, group...
  • Using Widgets in Community Server 2008

    This video shows an example of editing and rearranging widgets in Community Server 2008.
  • Community Server 2008 - How to Upgrade Themes from CS2007 to CS2008

    My last article outlined the changes made to Chameleon and Theming between CS2007 and CS2008 and could be used as a guide for an in-depth, manual upgrade of a CS2007 theme to CS2008. In this article, however, I'll provide my suggested approach to upgrading themes for CS2008. Upgrading a CS2007 Site...
  • Community Server 2008 - Changes to Chameleon

    In this post, I'll outline the changes to the Chameleon theming engine (and themes in general) between Community Server 2007 and Community Server 2008. If you're interested in the changes to themes between an earlier version of Community Server (before 2007) and the 2008 version, I suggest reading...
  • Community Server 2008 - Notes, Changes, and New Features

    As announced earlier today , Community Server 2008 is now available ! CS2008 includes many exciting new features: embedded video and audio, real friend support, widgets, mini-communities a.k.a. groups, improved messaging, and more. To help everyone make the jump to CS2008, I plan on publishing technical...
  • Watch Theming Community Server from CSDC'07 (Part 1)

    Part one of Wyatt and my talk about theming Community Server from CSDC '07 is now available on the Telligent web site. This video provides an overview of Community Server theming, URL rewriting, and the Chameleon theming language. Go watch it now...
  • Dynamic Configuration in Graffiti CMS

    As was mentioned at the CSDC'07 back in October, Dynamic Configuration support is being used in more places. Today, it was announced that Graffiti CMS (a new product by Telligent ) now supports global variables. This feature is implemented using the same Dynamic Configuration support used in Community...
  • "Professional Community Server Themes" Now Available!

    It appears that online booksellers such as Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble now report " Professional Community Server Themes " as being "In Stock!" I'm very excited that this book is finally available! This book covers most everything about themes -- understanding how URL rewriting...
  • What Would You Like to Know about Chameleon?

    I've been working on adding content and documentation to the Themes topic on docs.communityserver.org . Please check out the new information and see what you think. Now, after you've looked around, what's missing? What would you like to know about Chameleon or theming in Community Server...
  • Chameleon Property Documentation

    I just wanted to point out a recent update to the docs.communityserver.org site that should help theme developers using Chameleon . Documentation for single value and condition controls which access objects within the Community Server API has been added to list all of the available properties exposed...
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