hacking b2evolution..
for those of you who keep up with blog engines, you probably know right away that this blog is based on b2evolution. this is a really great engine, and is in use everywhere. that is a good thing and a bad thing. the bad thing is that you really have to keep up with spammers, as they exploit this thing day in and day out. it is a major pain, and something you have to learn to live with.. that’s okay..
i started using my blog though, as a front end to my picture of the day list. this was all fine and dandy until i started email the html pages to my list. this caused some serious problems.
first, the list was being mailed a page that was chock full of ads and crap that i didn’t want to send to my list. it also had some forms and divs that did not translate well..
what i needed was a stripped down page.
here’s what i did:
checking around on the manual, i found that you can add skin=someSkinName to override the skin of the page. this works even if you have skin switching turned off.
i took the basic skin, and edited it to suit my needs (totally stripped down) and then, when it came time to mail to my list, i just tacked &skin=basic to the end of my url..
this is MUCH better than anything i have used yet.. we’ll see what happens..