User:Hindleyite/test
This will test a forum thingy.
Working Version for Hindleyite[edit | edit source]
coding explination[edit | edit source]
<div class="boilerplate metadata" id="stub" width=100% style="margin: 12px 0px;background-color: #D3EAFE; border: solid 1px #B19F95; padding: 5px;"> This page is a '''[[Talk page|User talk page]]'''. The contents have not been moved from another page and are not for reference purposes only, and should not be preserved in their current form. Discussion or voting on this page is '''current'''. Any additions you make will '''probably be read'''. The un-current version of this page can be found at [[User talk:Silent Penguin/Archive1|Archive]].</div> <div class="boilerplate metadata" id="stub" width=100% style="margin: 12px 0px;background-color: ; border: solid 2px red; padding: 5px;"> if you want to start a new mass of gibberish, type the theme in the box below and then click the button, then put the general gist of whatever your winging about this time in the page. <table width="100%"><tr><td width="60%"><inputbox> type=create <----this is the type of action the input box performs, all i know is search and create, but there are more break=no <----no idea what this does so i left it. prefix=User talk:Silent Penguin/ <----this is where the namespace the page creates in when you click create preload=User talk:silent Penguin/template <----this is any text that appears in the page before it is edited, it has to be a template though. buttonlabel=Compliment. <----this is what the create button will read </inputbox> </td></tr></table></div> <table class="forumlist" width="100%"><tr><th class="forum_title" align="left">Topic</th><th class="forum_edited" align="left" width="20%">Last Edit</th><th class="forum_editor" align="left">Last Author</th></tr> <forum> namespace=User Talk <----this helps uncyc with searching i think, it does nothing functionally wise. category=Neurotypicals <----this is the important one! this mucks everthing up if you dont get it right, you have to create a catagory by which all the "talk forum" pages must belong too, otherwise they will not join the forum. so you must use sothing that is unused or create one of your own. shownamespace=false addlasteditor=true <----you should be able to tell what this does historylink=true Start=0 <----This is where the forum ordering starts. so in this case it starts at 0 but for archives it could start at 15 count=15 <----this is the number of pages from the catagory that the forum will show, after that the pages will simply not appear. </forum></table>