Will’s Similiblog

I made the 2 following minor module hacks to improve the user interface on the blog editing page:

Audio module
be sure to use:
audio 5.x-2.x-dev (or later)
- which permits audio file upload & streaming audio in any node type, so that users can upload streaming audio to blog posts

The audio attach section added by this module to the node (e.g. blog) editing page is a collapsible section, but by default is expanded. This presents additional options on the page which might be confusing to the novice user; I’d rather have this section collapsed by default.

find audio_attach.module, in audio/contrib/attach/
at line 76, add ‘#collapsed’ => TRUE
so that this line reads:
$form['audio_attach'] = array(’#type’ => ‘fieldset’, ‘#title’ => t(’Attached audio files’), ‘#collapsible’ => TRUE, ‘#collapsed’ => TRUE);

Override Node Publishing Options module
I’d like to give the user the option to toggle “published” on/off, but not offer the options to promote to front page, make sticky, or create new revision.

Find override_node_options.module, in the override_node_options directory.
Comment out lines 28, 29 and 30, so that these read:
// $form['options']['override_publishing_promote'] …
// $form['options']['override_publishing_sticky'] …
// $form['options']['override_publishing_revision'] …

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