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Implementing microdata schema.org in Yootheme ZOO

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Recently, the three major search engins (Bing/Yahoo and Google) agreed on using the microdata system Schema.org. This allow any website to provide semantic information to the search spiders. For instance, you can specify what kind of content you are publishing, like a recipe of an apple pie, or a movie review. More than that, depending on the type, you can give the various important information directly to the search robot : what is the movie title, what is its director, or how long you should cook your pie. To find all the piece of information you can select, you should read : http://schema.org/

YOOtheme Zoo – Integration of Google +1

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I wanted to add a google +1 button to my website. As I am using YOOtheme zoo CCK component, I add to create a new “element” to be print at the end of my blog post. You can download it bellow. Of course you can use it on any zoo applications (blogs, businesses, recipes … and custom applications).

How to install

Download the archive : ZOOelement Googleplus

Then, unzip the files in your folder : /base_installation_folder/media/zoo/elements. You will see a new folder named “googleplus”.

Yootheme Zoo – Modifying the Frontend submission editor

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A quick note to let you know how I hacked Yootheme Zoo 2.3. I wanted to have a wysiwyg editor while my users were submitting article in frontend with ZOO. Usually you can activate the “trusted mode” to have this wysiwyg editor. But you will also have several other fields which are too much for normal users. In order to have a wysiwyg editor, even in the non-trusted mode, here is the modification you should implement.

Yootheme Zoo – Modifying the number of articles on Frontpage

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A quick note to let you know how I hacked Yootheme Zoo 2.3. I wanted to have a different numbers of articles on the frontpage, and in the classical category view.As I did not find an easy solution (a parameter should be added to the configuration for the front page), I decided to code it.

Here is the line you have to change on line 232 in /joomla_base_dir/components/com_zoo/controllers/default.php