Blogs Made Simple Customisation

[grobinson]

Hi, I have recently installed BMS version 0.3.1, it is functioning OK but I would like a little help customising the way it is displaying Blog entries. On the 'front' Blogs page it is displaying all Blogs from all Categories in date order, this is OK and what I want. When you click on a Blog to see the 'detailed' view it is showing the details and comments which is OK but also all the Blogs from the 'front' page are listed underneath. How do I get rid of these from this page? It is same for the Categories page, all Blogs are shown for that particular category but also underneath are all Blogs from all categories, which looks a confusing mess, I would like to get rid of them from this page too. Has anyone has an idea how this could be done?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Graham.
CMSMS v1.4.1

[rab]

Can't help with actual code, but you can adjust what is displayed by going to the particular template to comment out (or delete) whatever you don't want shown. For instance, if you don't want to show the time the blog was created, you can go to the "Blogs Template", look for the following code:

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<div class="blogs-showblogsentry">
    <div class="blogs-showblogsentrytime">{$entry->time} {$writtenby} {$entry->author}</div>

and delete {$entry->time} so it looks like this:

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<div class="blogs-showblogsentry">
    <div class="blogs-showblogsentrytime">{$writtenby} {$entry->author}</div>

Then save the template and look at your page.

I've found that playing around with these templates will usually get you what you want. I would highly recommend you save the original template in a text file (I use Notepad) just to be safe.

Good luck!

[reidjazz]

I'd like to be able to customize the date/time stamp to read as US time (mm/dd/yyyy).

Can I edit {$entry->time} so that it reads like this?

reidjazz