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Support for Confluence 2.8.x, rendering improvements

Download

techtime-blog-theme-0.7.50.jar or techtime-blog-theme-0.7.50.jar.zip

Recent changes

1. Fixed small shift in rigt-side layout between main and view news page
2. Added a signature similar to the Blog to the Page view
3. Fixed wrong rendering of user navigation bar in 2.8
4. Fixed incompatible change to print icon between Confluence 2.7 and 2.8
5. Fixed problem with Custom colors in 2.8.1
6. Fixed different alignment of signature in 2.8.1
7. Fixed issue with breadcrumbs section loosing style in 2.8.1
8. Removed the extra comment link in View News and View Page modes in 2.8.1
9. Constrained the footer search to the current space only by default

Prerequisites

Install the following plugins via Confluence Plugin Manager

1. Linking Plugin
2. Adaptavist Content Formatting Macros
3. HTML Plugin

Disable the following plugins

1. HTML Macros

Brief Installation Instructions

1. Install/Update via Atlassian Plugin Repository or download the theme .jar file
2. Install theme as plugin via Administration/Plugins/Browse/Upload
3. Create New Space
   Choose TechTime Blog Theme
   The Home page of the new space will show up with two warnings about missing pages. Ignore.
4. Upload the space logo via Space Admin/Change Space Logo
   The Logo file should be 800px in width to be in style with the theme
5. Add a page with name "About" with any text about your blog
6. Add a page with name "Featured Articles" with any list of featured articles

Other aspects of configuration

The Theme is morphing according to user's permissions
It supports distinctly:

• anonymous users
• authenticated users
• those with page create rights
• those with news create rights
• space admins and global admins

Consider having special groups to denote those who can create content, those who can administer the space and regular users.

Errata

These are known issues to be fixed in future versions:

• Search via "GO" goes to the space search result page which doesn't have space styles applied
• Further search goes to the global search results page
• When in Rich-Text mode comment box does not fit and is rendered with scrollbars
• Anonymous user can still edit pages, blogposts and attachments if one enters the URL directly
• Anonymous add page and add news modes look ugly
• Breadcrumbs for posts with long titles look ugly
• Impossible to add Labels to a blogpost without going into an edit mode