Post by Akatsuki on Oct 17, 2010 23:03:02 GMT -5
If you, like me, love LiveJournal’s “current mood” feature and the custom mood icons, yet love EE more, here ’s a simple hack to get mood themes with EE. First, you’ll need to create a custom field in the field group on for the mood selection. Set it as a drop down, and more importantly, set the default formatting to NONE. For the list of moods, see the bottom of this entry. Set it as optional, lest each new entry will publish a mood of no mood selected, which is boring. Then, create a directory on your domain for mood theme images. The most important thing to note here is that all images must have the SAME file type - e.g., .jpg, .png, .gif, etc.. Make a note of the directory URL as you will need it later. Upload all the mood images in binary format. If there is no image for a set mood, modern browsers will display the alt text. In the template that has your blog or the field group that has the mood field, add this code:
{ i f m o o d } < b > C u r r e n t M o o d : < / b > < i m g s r c = " h t t p : / / d o m a i n . t l d / d i r e c t o r y / { m o o d } . j p g " a l t = " m o o d i c o n " l < b r / > < b r / > < b r / > { / i f }
Pretty simple, right? You can find mood themes by googling LJ custom mood themes, or going to LiveJournal and searching for mood themes in the interests category. Remember to give credit to the artist and/or do any other requirements the artist lists.
{ i f m o o d } < b > C u r r e n t M o o d : < / b > < i m g s r c = " h t t p : / / d o m a i n . t l d / d i r e c t o r y / { m o o d } . j p g " a l t = " m o o d i c o n " l < b r / > < b r / > < b r / > { / i f }
Pretty simple, right? You can find mood themes by googling LJ custom mood themes, or going to LiveJournal and searching for mood themes in the interests category. Remember to give credit to the artist and/or do any other requirements the artist lists.