[pmwiki-users] Can't edit with monobook skin
Comit
sam at usamedia.tv
Tue Feb 14 13:33:11 CST 2006
Turns out my site.editform vanished (or wasn't needed before??). I replaced
it with a fresh copy and alls well again. Thanks :D
- Com
"Bronwyn Boltwood" <bronwyn at bronwynb.info> wrote in message
news:78455dc20602141017i57762762ic75b4857565b046f at mail.gmail.com...
> On 2/12/06, Comit <sam at usamedia.tv> wrote:
>> Going through the CSS file here's the only part that looks like it's
>> related
>> to the editting page, which I've never modified yet:
>
> Try commenting it out by surrounding it with /* */ -- as in
> /*
> comment
> */
>
>> "Comit" <sam at usamedia.tv> wrote in message
>> news:dsmglh$sap$1 at sea.gmane.org...
>> >I just installed the monobook skin and customed the color theme. I love
>> >it. Just one problem - I can't edit pages anymore. I just get a blank
>> >page,
>> >no edit fields or anything. Even if I manually type the edit action
>> >command into the url. It works fine with other skins, however. Any idea
>> >how
>> >I can fix this?
>
> Have you tested it with the default skin? I ask because the edit form
> is controlled by Site.EditForm. So if Site.EditForm is the source of
> the problem, something should be wrong no matter what skin you have.
> To find out, you should:
>
> 1. Test it with the default skin. Does it work? Then it's probably
> the skin rather than the editform template. If there's problems with
> the default skin, then go on.
> 2. Redownload the zip of your version of PmWiki and extract a fresh
> copy of Site.EditForm and put in wikilib.d where it belongs. Now you
> should have a good virgin copy of Site.EditForm in wikilib.d.
> 3. If there's a Site.EditForm in wiki.d, rename it to something like
> Site.EditForm.bad. That will force PmWiki to use the version in
> wikilib.d.
> 4. Test again. Hopefully it works now. If it doesn't, it's time to
> go through your config.php with a fine-tooth comb, commenting out all
> cookbook recipes for a start.
>
> Test with some other skins -- preferably actively maintained ones that
> don't mess about with the editform at all-- and see if they have the
> same problem.
>
>> > Also, is the sidebar per-group with this skin? Seems to be..was
>> > wondering
>> > if I could just retain the site-wide sidebar, if possible.
>
> If there's a group sidebar, it uses it. Otherwise, it falls back to
> the sitewide sidebar. Same principle goes for wherever else the skin
> includes a wikipage. So there's two ways to handle it:
>
> 1. Delete all group sidebars.
> 2. in the tmpl file, change the line
> <!--wiki:$Group.SideBar $SiteGroup.SideBar-->
> to
> <!--wiki:$SiteGroup.SideBar-->
>
> Bronwyn
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