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While I've got a couple of days I thought I would have a play with pn8 and convert a few of my themes. I'm really impressed with the progress on the whole thing but Xanthia is awesome and really easy to work with although I've got the advantage of knowing my way around.

One question, probably very dumb but I can't find where to set the footer message, it used to be in admin/settings but I can't find it there.

Regards
AR

There is no footer message in Settings anymore. It is now a theme-specific issue. I generally set my themes up with a definition for the footer.

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Thanks for the reply, seems a bit silly to take that out but thats life. Definition or plugin, mmmmm.

I loaded SeaBreeze as the site theme and the footermsg tag is still in there, ExtraLight too. Might be an idea to remove it from the supplied themes to avoid confusion.

Regards
AR

Submitted to tracker.
http://noc.postnuke.com/t...73&group_id=5&atid=101

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The logic behind this decision is that the footer message was felt to be an integral part of the design and that having one part of a site design set in the admin panel while the rest was templates didn't really make sense. If you approach this from the perspective of a new PN user rather than someone that is already used to the existing structure I think the decision makes a bit more sense.

I personally felt that having the footer message in the admin panel was one of the things that make PN sites very similar - regardless of the rest of the design the footer is un-mistakable....

-Mark

Mark,
I understand that and it works well enough for me and my sites. I personally have used the footer message for many different things besides footer messages, I once used it as a lazy way to get a menu in a header. The difficulty comes with client sites, they eventually want to change something in the footer but I've found away around that which works so it's business as usual.

Regards
AR

For anyone still wants to have the same footer in multiple themes, without having to change all his templates, see:
http://community.postnuke...ticle2778.htm#2006_1_3
This can easily be achieved with the themes module (Xanthia 3.0).

So, if a you decide to use multiple themes, or let the user choose one, while maintaining only one footer message, you should:

• In Blocks Admin, create a new position (called for example 'footermsg')
  
• At the desired position, add
  Code

  <!--[blockposition name=footermsg]-->

  to the templates in all your used themes in the file repository
  
• In Blocks Admin, create a new block (core / HTML) and fill the contents with the desired footer. Set the position to 'footermsg' instead of left, right or center
  

Then admins can easily edit the content through the blocks admin by editing the core HTML block.
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