writing.md

Writing Posts

• Introduction
• Markdown
• Drag and Drop Markdown Files
• Drag and Drop Images
• Post Slug
• Post Author
• Status
• Adding Tags
• Publish Date

Introduction

Wardrobe is designed to keep the focus on writing and because of this all writing options are tucked away as they are secondary to your content. This page will highlight all these extra options.

Markdown

Wardrobe supports all the typical markdown syntax as well as markdown extra

This gives you the ability to add new markup such as footnotes, tables, and definition lists.

Drag and Drop Markdown Files

Prefer to write locally? Wardrobe supports drag and drop posting. Locally create a new file with this structure:

---
title: My Title
slug: my-title
date: Tomorrow 9am
tags: [sample, post]
---

This is the *markdown* content

Save it and then drag and drop into your wardrobe admin. You will then be forwarded to the write page with all the fields filled out. This gives you an opportunity to verify all the fields and content is correct before saving.

Please note that none of the fields are required. This example just shows all the current available options

Drag and Drop Images

If you want to add an image to your post you can drag and drop an image from local computer into the writing content area and it will automatically upload and insert the markdown image syntax with the path already set.

Behind the scenes the image is just moved into the public/img directory and no processing takes place. This way you have full flexibility to size the image as you want inside a graphic program.

Post Slug

The post "slug" is the URI string used for displaying the post on the frontend. So for example if you post is titled "My Summer" then the slug will be "my-summer". Which will make the post available at: site.com/post/my-summer

This will be generated automatically based on your title but sometimes you will want to change it. This field is found in the Advanced Options.

Post Author

If you have multiple authors and wish to change the author you can open the Advanced Options to edit.

Post Status

Currently you can set the status of a post to either active or draft. Draft posts are only visible in the admin and for previewing. This setting is found in Advanced Options

Tagging

If you wish to add post tags you can click the tags icon in the post bar. By tagging it will allow you to categorize posts for easy retrieval later.

Publish Date

You can change the post date by clicking the calendar icon. Setting the date to the future will prevent the post from displaying until that date and time is present.

This field is a free form input field that utilizes php's strtotime. This makes it flexible in that you can use common language to represent your post date. Some examples could be:

• Tomorrow 8am
• Next Tuesday 10am
• May 1 2014
• Now
• 1 April 2014
• etc...

Please note that dates in the m/d/y or d-m-y formats are disambiguated by looking at the separator between the various components: if the separator is a slash (/), then the American m/d/y is assumed; whereas if the separator is a dash (-) or a dot (.), then the European d-m-y format is assumed.

Advanced Options

You can click the arrow beside the title to expand the advanced options. This will then display the slug, author, and status.