Hopefully this will help someone as it took me a day or so to figure it all out and sanitize my Comus TGP.
1. In Comus Admin set your text link format. Mine is
This gives you the following output: Description (Category). There are many more you can set up.
2. Set the macros within the page where your text links will be. I use
This gives you 1 column with 40 links from each day.
3. Make sure you remove {{allowdupes}} from the head of the page and I added {{buildonce}}. Here is the entire comus code from the head of my page
4. Delete all categories. Delete all thumbs. Just deleting the categories stil leaves the thumbs on your box so FTP into your site and go into the 'ct' file and delete the thumbs. Comus will rewrite new categories when you upload your new none thumb URLs.
5. Go to import and load your new galleries. I set the import up as URL,Description,Category,Number of pics/movies as I had written my text files that way to be imported. I imported about 4500 new text link galleries (the compilation of which will be the hard part) and it went pretty smooth. Just go back and check your Categories after you import and see if you have any screwy ones because maybe the comma was in the wrong place. I had about 10 where the description was where the Category should have been so I just deleted that category.
6. Click Build then when it is done click view and make sure the output is what you want.
Hope this helped a few of you! You still have about 3 weeks to get this done if you don't want to be burdened with the new 2257 regs. Just remember to keep all the old 2257 for stuff you have previously had on your site.
1. In Comus Admin set your text link format. Mine is
Code:
<A HREF="%url%" target="_tgp"><b>%desc%</b></A> <font color="#000000">(%cat%)</font><br>
2. Set the macros within the page where your text links will be. I use
Code:
{{all-links-40-1-query-new}}
Code:
{{all-links-40-1-query-age1}}
Code:
{{all-links-40-1-query-age2}}
3. Make sure you remove {{allowdupes}} from the head of the page and I added {{buildonce}}. Here is the entire comus code from the head of my page
Code:
{{buildonce}}
{{setquery-new-" periodsshown>-1 ORDER BY periodsshown,if(used,-rating,-999999999),refreshdelay DESC, rand() "}}
{{setquery-stage1-" periodsshown>0 order by clickperiods "}}
{{setquery-age1-" periodsshown>0 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc, rand() "}}
{{setquery-age2-" periodsshown>1 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc, rand() "}}
{{setquery-age3-" periodsshown>2 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc, rand() "}}
5. Go to import and load your new galleries. I set the import up as URL,Description,Category,Number of pics/movies as I had written my text files that way to be imported. I imported about 4500 new text link galleries (the compilation of which will be the hard part) and it went pretty smooth. Just go back and check your Categories after you import and see if you have any screwy ones because maybe the comma was in the wrong place. I had about 10 where the description was where the Category should have been so I just deleted that category.
6. Click Build then when it is done click view and make sure the output is what you want.
Hope this helped a few of you! You still have about 3 weeks to get this done if you don't want to be burdened with the new 2257 regs. Just remember to keep all the old 2257 for stuff you have previously had on your site.
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