Agegelabs

I’m terrible at networking. Imagine my joy when I found this great post on Unreasonable Institute’s blog on The Key to Powerful Relationships. The recommendations are simple and easy to follow. (via Change.org)

“There are dollars: Africa is home to more gold, cobalt and diamonds than anywhere else in the world and sells more oil to America and China than the Middle East” (CNBC on Africa, NigeriaVillageSquare)

“I want to see real technology powerhouses grow within Africa – ultimately with African investors and with solutions that will take the world by storm” (Hash)

NaijaBorn launch coverage (Agegelabs, Naijafeed, 27months,
Webtrendsng, StartupsAfrica)

The making of an SMS icon \o/ (Kiwanja)

Is Zain Africa worth US$12 billion? (Consultant Value Added)

BarCamp Swaziland set for June 27th 2009 (BarCamp Africa)

15 Tips for Travelling in Africa: Toss out your expectations, embrace the differences (Hash)

13 Tips for Great Photography in a Developing Country: Learn the Language and Smile (Cashewman)

Stop Whinning and Collaborate. (ComputerWorld Kenya, via Hash)

Great profile of Appfrica Labs, a technology incubator based in Uganda. (Hash)

“When we start investing in our own, others will follow suit”. (OoTheNigerian)

“Rather than making the commitment of hiring new people, contract them to an assignment”. (Appfrica)

5 Things I love about GatorPeeps (David Ajao)

BarcampNigeria is over. Now what? (Grandiose Parlor)

“Asking for the connection of the dots is not calling for another forum to discuss, or the creation of a Task Force; it is an invitation to engage the active stakeholders”
(Gbenga Sesan)

“Then I realized something else: I was trying to live by someone else’s values. I only really cared about becoming an early riser because it was something everyone else did to prove that they were really serious about this personal development stuff.”
(Zen habit)

Textpattern is a powerful content management system which I have been playing with recently. Despite all its great features, Textpattern doesn’t seem to handle categories very well from core installation, for example each post can only be assigned two categories.

After spending considerable time in the textpattern forum, I finally figured out how to create unlimited categories in Textpattern. I have put together the guide to prevent heartache for other newbies like me ;)

Step by step guide to adding unlimited categories
Install the rss_unlimited_categories plugin (Updated plugin) and enable it. The plugin should automatically create a new sql table called “textpattern_category”.

Create a new section called “category” and use the “default page” template

In the “default page”, replace the code:

<txp:if_category>
<h2><txp:category title="1" /></h2>
<div class="hfeed">
<txp:article form="article_listing" limit="5" />
</div>

with this code below

<txp:if_category>
<h2>Category: "<txp:category title="1" />" </h2>
<div class="hfeed">
<txp:rss_uc_article_list section="articles" 
form="default" />
</div>

In the “default form”, replace the code:

<p class="tags">
<txp:category1 title="1" link="1" />, 
<txp:category2 title="1" link="1" />
</p>

with this code below

<p class="tags">Tags:
<txp:rss_uc_filedunder section="articles" 
linktosection="category" />
</p>

To be able to show catogeries in the sidebar, some modification is also required. Simply replace the code below

<txp:category_list sort="name asc" 
type="article" wraptag="ul" break="li"/>

with this code

<txp:rss_uc_list linktosection="category" 
showcount="1" wraptag="ul" 
break="li" class="category_list" />

Other tweaks
It may also be useful to hide the old category form, use ied_hide_in_admin plugin to do this.

Enlarging the the text area for the new category form can be done in SQL. I only recommend this if you are comfortable with SQL.

• Go into your SQL database
• Browse “txp_pref”
• Find “rss_unlim_sel_size”
• Change the “val” of “rss_unlim_sel_size” to 15

All things been equal, that’s all you need to do!

Useful links
Getting Started with Textpattern — Here you can find the default page and form templates
rss_unlimited_categories Support forum