The Administrative Interface
SETTINGS
This is where you configure the overall settings for your blog.
General settings
Blog name: The name that shows up at the top of your blogBlog subtitle: The subtitle that shows up right beneath the blog nameBlog URL: The URL for your blog, Typo will automatically try to guess this so you don't have to set it.Latitude, Longitude: You can embed your physical location into every webpage served up by your blog so that everyone knows where you're blogging from.Show blog name: Your blog's name will be added to the page titles at the top of every webpage. These page titles are shown at the top of the browser and are used any time someone bookmarks a webpage. This might also help for search engines.Image(settings_general-settings.jpg)
Read
Display X articles on my homepage by default: The number of articles that will be put on every webpage that shows a list of articles, for example, the archives for May will have these many articles shown on every page.Display X articles in my news feed by default: The number of latest articles shown in your feedsShow full article on feed: If this isn't checked, any extended content in your articles isn't included in your feeds.Write
Editor: Typo now includes the TinyMCE visual editor so it's easier to use the web admin to write articles. You need to enable it to use it. Typo will generate an AJAX live preview that you can turn off if it's too slow.Article filter: You can use various markup languages when you write your articles.Comments filter: You can let commenters use various markup languages when they write their comments.Send trackbacks: If this is enabled, Typo will automatically try to send a trackback to any blog posts that are linked from your own blog post and try to ping any URLs that are listed in the next option. Both trackbacks and pings are turned off when this option is unchecked.URLs to ping automatically: You can ping various services to make them aware of your new blog posts. Some example URLs would be http://blogsearch.google.com/ping or http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ (I'm not sure if these two actually work, I'll check and make sure).Discuss
Disable trackbacks site-wide: If you're getting hit by trackback spam and want to quickly disable new trackbacks for every article on the blog, check this option.Enable Trackbacks by default: Any new articles that you write will have trackbacks enabled by default.Enable comments moderation: All comments and trackbacks will not be posted to your blog until you moderate them in the web admin (click on DISCUSS on the admin tab at the top).Enable comments by default: Any new articles that you write will have comments enabled by default.Show your email address: A mailto link with your email address will be added to your name for every blog post.Enable gravatars: Gravatars are avatar images that can follow you everywhere, Typo support can be enabled by checking this option.Allow non-ajax comments: If you're getting spammed a lot, you can try unchecking this option to see if it helps. It might stop spammers who don't have javascript in their spambot.Disable comments after X days: Comments will automatically be closed X days after you publish a blog post. This is a way to avoid spam comments that might come in a long time after a blog post is published.Max Links: Another way to handle spam is to flag comments or trackbacks that have too many links in them. You can set the threshold above which to flag them here and those comments and trackbacks will be flagged for moderation and will not be posted. Note: this feature will not be enabled unless you enable spam protection below.Notification
Source Email: If a user sets up his account to receive notifications, Typo will send the user emails to their email address with this address as the source.Jabber account: Jabber account from which to send all jabber notificationsJabber password: Password to access the above Jabber accountImage(settings-notifications.jpg)
Spam protection
Enable spam protection: Various spam protection features, like local blacklists or checking external spam lists (surbl.org, for example), are enabled. Akismet is a spam filtering service that is provisionally enabled when you check this option, assuming you enter a proper Akismet key below.Akismet Key: You must go to the Akismet website and get a key from them in order to use their service. Enter the key Akismet gives you here.Image(settings_spam-protection.jpg)
Resource Settings
These settings are used when you add a resource (like an mp3 or video) to a blog post. This information will only be added to the news feed for your blog so that people can view this info in iTunes.Cache
Empty Fragment Cache: Clicking this link will empty your entire cache. Typo saves all your webpages to a cache so that it doesn't have to rebuild an entire webpage or RSS feed every time someone downloads it.Rebuild cached HTML: Clicking this link will sweep all the HTML in the cache. Each webpage will be regenerated when someone tries to download it again.PUBLISH
You can compose new articles or pages here.
Write an Article
This is where you write blog posts.Title: This is the title of your blog post. It will also be used to create a permalink for this blog post.Article Content: This is where you write your blog post. If you want to split your post into an introductory portion that goes on the front page of your blog and extended portion that is only available once you click on the blog post, put the introductory paragraph here and the extended portion in the extended content section below.Toggle Extended Content: This is where you put the extended portion of your article, that will not be available on the front page of your blog but only when someone clicks on the blog post, as explained above. You can also configure your news feeds to not show this extended content in the General Settings.Categories: Typo has two classification systems in place, categories and tags. You can add more categories by going to the MANAGE section and adding them there. Highlight the categories that will apply to this post and they will be applied when you click Save below. The generally accepted way Typo users apply categories and tags is to have a few general categories and many smaller, more specific tags.Tags: Enter any tags you want to use for this post here, separated by spaces. Tags are generally used for more narrow or specific classification, as explained above. You can enclose tags in quotes (single or double quotes) to create multi-word tags ('greatest blog post ever', for example) or create standalone tags made up of letters, numbers, and _ or . (my_greatest_tag irc_2.0).Article Attachments: You can attach a resource (like an mp3 or video) to the blog post here. These resources will only be uploaded and included with any feeds once attached. To include them in your blog post, you must also link to them from the text of your blog post. Resources will be placed in the files directory so you would link to a resource called play_on_playa.mp3 by linking to !http://yourblog.com/files/play_on_playa.mp3 from your blog post and then uploading it using this option.Permalink: The permalink is normally generated from the title of your blog post. You can set a custom permalink here. For example, a blog post titled 'Welcome to the Typo' would normally have a URL that looks like !http://yourblog.com/articles/2007/04/27/welcome-to-the-typo. You could change that last part based on the post title to anything you want.Allow comments: Allow commenters to post comments for this particular postAllow trackbacks: Allow other blogs to post trackbacks for this particular postPublished: If this option is checked, this article will be published on your blog as soon as you save it. If you leave this unchecked, you can use the next option to write the post now but publish it at some future date.Publish at: If you didn't check the previous option, you can set a future date at which time this blog post will show up on your blog. This is useful if you want to write a post ahead of time and have it automatically appear on the blog at a future date.Textfilter: Choose a markup language for your post. Find out more about the installed text filters in the DESIGN section.Write a Page
Pages are for blog webpages with no comments. You can write pages describing the blog or blogger, or whatever else you just need to put on a webpage somewhere.Title: The title is used for the title of the generated webpage.Location: Used to create the URL for this pageBody: This is where you write the content of your page.Textfilter: Choose a markup language for this page. Find out more about the installed text filters in the DESIGN section.MANAGE
This is where you manage existing content that you've written.
Manage Articles
You can look over existing articles here and look at comments or trackbacks for each article. This is where you go if you want to edit an article or its associated comments or trackbacks.Manage Pages
Existing pages are listed here so you can edit them as you see fit.Manage Categories
This is where you add categories for your blog. As mentioned in the section on writing an article, categories are generally used for a small amount of high-level classifications. You can quickly create a new category here or edit existing categories.Manage Resources
You can upload a new resource or edit your existing resources here. A resource is any file that you upload to the server, that you can then attach to your blog posts. Resources can be pdfs, images, audio, or video, any file that you want. When you attach a resource to an existing post (either when you write the post or by going to the Manage Articles section and adding it later), it's added as an enclosure to that post in your feed. However, a resource will not be shown in your blog post unless you link directly to it. Resources will be placed in the files directory so you would link to a resource called juicy.mp4 by linking to !http://yourblog.com/files/juicy.mp4 from your blog post.DISCUSS
This is where you handle comments and trackbacks, content added by visitors to your blog. You moderate what feedback will be published to your blog here. You can search through all your feedback using the search form or use the checkmark interface to quickly categorize all the feedback. For example, you can check off all the comments that you think are spam (spam comments are junk comments) and click the 'Mark Checked Items as Spam' button. You can do the same for ham comments (ham is the opposite of spam, ham comments are the ones you want to keep), delete any comments you don't want, or confirm the categorization for comments that have a question mark by their categorization (ham? or spam?). Akismet (if you have it configured) and the other spam protection features will try to categorize any incoming feedback: you can use this interface to track what is going on and make any corrections necessary. You can also set up your own custom blacklists here, as explained next.
Blacklist
You can setup your own spam filters for your blog here. Blacklists are strings or regexes (short for regular expressions) that you want Typo to look for, feedback with those characteristics will be blocked and sent to the DISCUSS section for moderation. Blacklists are only applied if spam protection is enabled in the General Settings. Also, you can only use blacklists toward the title of a trackback or body of a comment or trackback. You cannot currently write a local blacklist to filter the name or the IP or email addresses of commenters, although any IP addresses and URLs are checked against external blacklists if spam protection is enabled. String blacklists are just a simple string to look for, stuff like cialis or viagra or software offers. Regex blacklists allow you to block more complicated possibilities:c[i1]a[il71]+s - this regex will block multiple possibilities like cia7is or c1a71s, among others[mM]\1 (and|\&) the f(un)ky b\3ch - this regex will match 'Marky mark and the funky bunch' or 'marky Mark & the funky bunch', plus other slight variationsYou can find out more about Perl-compatible regular expressions and write all kinds of regexes, though they should probably be a last resort for Typo spam filtering.DESIGN
This is where you customize the look and front-end options of your blog.
Sidebar
This is where you configure your sidebars.
Themes
This is where you can periodically change your themes. You can pick from all the themes you have installed.
Users
This is where you edit or delete users.
Resources
This is where you upload multimedia content?
Filters
You can use some preexisting text filters here or create your own.