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One of the best editorial practices I know is to have a checklist for yourself. I enjoy writing Reality TV articles, and so have created this list of suggestions for making your article as usable as possible. I assume you already know how to write! These guidelines are to help you get your articles picked […]

I changed TNG so that I can write out text that’s intended to introduce the person or family. I use event type ‘Introduction’, and type the text into that event’s notes.
I edited the style sheet to add class .introduction.
I edited getperson.php to catch and display the event.
I edited personlib.php to add function buildIntroduction, which is […]

TNG chokes on a family where the parents are unknown and unknown, RID of 0 and 0. mkdesc.pl reports the problem, so clean it up and re-import the gedcom file into TNG.

It’s pretty easy to add a new function. I added desc_toc.php, and linked it in index.php and topmenu.html. To be done properly, I should have added the menu text to English/text.php.
In this case I’m simply including an html page which will be generated by an outside perl script. I miss the ability to generate a […]

In TNG, you can browse the ‘photos’ subfolder on the server, to pick up the photo and thumbnail of interest. A symbolic link to the coppermine/albums folder works nicely. When the time comes, a symlink to the albums/genealogy/headstones folder should work for headstones.
The result is that the original import into the coppermine gallery creates the […]

See the writeup on the output buffer function here:
Buffering output
in the wordpress wiki. In my case, I have pages which are basically “table of contents pages” for the subpages. So, I’m enhancing the general page template to collect the list of subpages (if any). And then, if there ARE any (i.e., it’s a non-empty string), […]

The file ads.php needs to have the variable burninr changed to revvedup so that the top sidebar ads display. I’ve notified the author.