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I recently discovered the "markup: smarty" event plugin in spartacus! It allows you to add smarty tags in your entries and sidebar html nuggets. I installed it and am using smarty tags within an HTML nugget sidebar plugin to selectively display links in the sidebar.

Some of the links are supposed to display sitewide while others are homepage only. Using smarty in the HTML nugget allows me to display them correctly:

This article shows you how to implement header image selection via the media manager in your serendipity templates configuration.

I first introduced this feature in the beautiful day theme and it proved to be quite popular.

Most websites on the Internet can be accessed using both just their domain name and the www subdomain and domain name. For ex: www.example.com and example.com may lead to the same website. Some search engines consider the www version and the non-www version to be seperate websites and assign different Search Engine Results Page (SERP) positions and or page rank to them. This often results in a split page rank where the non-www and www versions of a site have different page rank. To prevent something like this from happening it helps to canonicalize your website URL. This means that you should select one version as a standard and redirect from the other to it.

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I am releasing a serendipity port of the Sahara template by freecsstemplates.org . This template includes very few images making this a fast loading theme. The designer has made clever use of small variations in colour to create a nice effect. He has also used serif fonts for text which adds to the overall feel of the theme.

The ported version includes a customizable navigation bar and the option to toggle author name display with every entry. You will need serendipity 1.1 or higher to be able to configure these options in the administration suite. Users of older s9y versions can still use this template but they will have to manually edit the .tpl files to customize this theme.

Download Sahara template for serendipity