A few months ago, I decided to move my website from GraffitiCMS to Community Server . Whilst I loved Graffiti as a blogging platform, it didn’t best serve my needs for my Community Server Addons – I wanted to be able to show the addons in use, and wanted...

When you come to developing on top of Community Server, you’ve first got to decide whether or not you should use the SDK (which you probably shouldn’t). You’ve then got to set up your initial project so you can best take advantage of...

I've finaly got around to finishing and packing up the 2008.5 version of my addons. For those of you who can't wait to read the rest of this blog post, you can download the addons from the media gallery and read documentation on them from the...

CSModules allow you to plug into Community Server and run your own code when certain events happen. In fact CSModules are so good that a lot of Community Server functionality is implemented through CSModules (77 are used out of the box!). This means...

For all examples in this article, I shall only be modifying the configuration of the HTML Scrubber through a communityserver_override.config for the sake of consistency, however do bear in mind that override files can be used to modify any aspect of a...

The Question and Answer functionality in Community Server (introduced in Community Server 2008.5) is very useful in support scenarios where users come to your community posting questions because it provides a means of tracking whether questions have been...

Articles are a little known feature of Community Server which adds some very simple content management facilities to your site. When I say basic, I do mean basic. These articles don’t appear in search, nor are they automatically linked to by any...

Common content boxes are used throughout the Hawaii theme. They are most visible in the Sidebars of Hawaii pages but they are also used in defining the main content of the page. There are four areas available in a Common Content Box, which may not...

I’ve decided I’m a little bored of the previous theme my site was using and so I’ve updated to a new theme.  I’m using a slight modification of the PointSpace – Blue theme converted to Graffiti by Rich Mercer (available at http://richmercer.com/graffiti...

It's been a little quiet here recently so let's put that right. Did you know that you could resize the content editor used when posting to Community Server? To do so, just click the arrow like icon in the bottom right of the editor and drag...

Today I'm finally releasing the CS2008.5 version of my addon package. Not all the addons from my previous package have survived but that's no loss as they're now baked into the core of CS2008.5. Included in this release are the folowing...

Finaly after working on it for months I feel ready to release this package. I am still working on documenting this release so do be patient with me whilst I do that. Included in this release are (If it's not a hyperlink, I haven't documented it...

The title says it all. I’m very nearly finished, just got to put the finishing touches on the package which I should be able to do sometime this week (or at least I hope so). You can expect a number of old addons to be included Quick Reply...

Don’t you just love it when you get a conversation or email from a member of your community saying “I can’t access the website”. You ask them a few questions, and you’re convinced it’s a problem just affecting their...

Whilst I do prefer the Hawaii forum view to the more typical forum views from past versions of CS, it does take a bit of getting used to, and I don’t dare to impost it on the users on my personal CS site (Nintendo Wiikly) for fear of a revolt –...

URL Rewriting is a very powerful feature of Community Server, however for those trying to start themeing and modifying CS, it's very difficult as you have to work out what the rewritten page is - having /forums/ rewrite to /themes/YOURTHEME/forums...

I'm currently working on a warnings addon for moderators to CS2008 and wanted to see if anyone had any feedback on what they think such an addon should contain. This addon is implemented using the Messaging API for CS (which Conversations, Profile...

Another gripe I have with CS2008 is the new user list page. The page is very unbalanced - there is a huge waste of space at the top of the page, next to the search form, and then the user list (the useful element of the page) is crammed into that small...

The CS2008 logged in home page. A wonderful page, just not in the right place. I don't like the idea of having the homepage significantly different for logged in and anonymous users - I can see the calls from users asking where's the homepage...

I've finally got around to updating my CS Addon Package .  I've fixed one bug, improved one module (introducing a breaking change), and added one control and one CSModule. The breaking change was introduced by moving the resources out of...

For a CS2008(.5) version, go to http://askcrome.co.uk/alexcrome-cs/alexcrome-cs-2008 UPDATE: Fixed a few bugs in RegistrationPM and QuickReply, download the updated version from [View:/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments...

I really don't know what I was thinking when I published my list of Addons for Community Server .  How on earth did I manage to forget the addons I WROTE MYSELF!!  (please don't respond to that ;) ) Anyway, I have amended the original...

This package has been built for and tested on CS 2007.1. Whilst they have been tested I accept no responsibility for anything that may occur as a result of installing any part of this package. This package contains the following addons: Registration...

I've let my blog die over the last few months, and didn't set aside enough time to update it. As repentance for my sins, I'm going to publish a list I've been keeping of addons for Community Server2007. Unfortunately with Community Server...