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Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide

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Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Apache Roller enables you to build a fully-featured, multi-user blog server apt for all kinds of blogging sites. It is an ideal tool to create your own blogging network with unlimited users and blogs, forums, photo galleries, and more! While it is exciting to have a list of interesting features it can offer you, it might be a little difficult to get started with it by your self. This book will teach you how to get started with Apache Roller and make the most of all its features using step-by-step, detailed instructions. You will learn how to establish your internet presence with an Apache Roller blog and use the latest web tools to enhance your posts and attract visitors. You will also learn how to promote your blog on popular social bookmarking services and customize it to suit your need. This hands-on and practical book introduces you to Apache Roller. Starting off with the configuration and installation of your own blog, you'll then quickly learn how to add interesting content to your blog with the help of plenty of examples. You'll also learn how to change your blog's visual appearance with the help of Roller themes and templates and how to create a community of blogs for you and your colleagues or friends in your Apache Roller blog server. The book also looks at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Apache Roller 4.0
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Editing themes


OK. You've learned how to change your Roller theme, and how to download additional themes. You've chosen the Carbonated theme for now, but if you look at the front page closely, you'll notice that the weblog categories don't fit in the header:

And, what if you want to use some feature that you saw in the Basic theme in your Carbonated theme, or in any other theme whatsoever? Well, that's why Roller lets us edit any theme to customize it, adding or deleting elements at will. In the next subsections, we'll see some specific examples of the things you can do when editing themes.

Using a custom theme

When choosing themes for your weblog, Roller gives you two choices—a shared theme or a custom theme. Until now, we've been using Shared Themes only. In the next exercise, you'll learn how to use Custom Themes.

Note

You'll need to use image01.jpg in this next exercise. It's the support file included inside chapter06.zip.