Sounds great. Unfortunately the demo link is a 404.

fixed :-)

I've only played a bit with it, but it's really a good approach! Well done.

UPGRADE:
All Usable Skin behaviours have moved inside the Plugin code, which means:
- The included sample Skin is no more required.
- VERY EASY to integrate in existing skins, (just add 3 lines of code in _main.php of your own skin).
( http://www.fralenuvol.com/albero/servizi/webmaster/scripts/b2evolution_usable_skin_plugin.php#customize_skin )
- Each module may be switched on/off.
- Added more customization options, everything is configurable in backoffice.

Hello,

I need some help with installing this. I have 1.8.6 installed and when I try to install the useable skin plug in I get this message when I try to look at the plug in page of admin:
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An unexpected error has occured!
If this error persits, please report it to the administrator.
Go back to home page
Additional information about this error:
Requested Blog does not exist!
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If I rename the file _usable_skin.plugin.php or delete then the admin page works again but I I can't get usable skin to work.

I have installed skin area plugin as requested which seems to work fine.
I have not done anything else yet from the instructions other than copy the files and try to install the plugin.
There are no custom changes to the blog other than using the tinyMCE plugin.

Any ideas please?

This is a plugin, so I'm moving it to the Plugins forum.

Could someone please confirm if the Usable Skin/Skin Area plugin works alright with b2evolution 1.9.2?

Simply can't get it to function, but that may well be me!!! :p

In the backoffice section under Tools/Skin area I get the following error and no idea what it is!

Undefined property: text_from_AdminTabAction in ..../public_html/test/plugins/_skin_area.plugin.php on line 228

Any help offered to this newbie really appreciated! B)

Same error here (as the Post before me) with b2evolution 1.10.2
But as it seems, it's not a problem, the input gets saved as you type it.

I have strange problem.
I have installed correctly this plugin
but not show (if i am admin) the link in home page for modification and not show the homepage section.

I suppose is a problem in this part:
$this->is_blog_homepage = ( !$cat && empty($catsel) && !$m && $disp=='posts' && !$title && !$p );

and in this part:
if( $current_User->check_perm( 'blog_ismember', 'any', false, $blog) && $current_User->check_perm( 'blog_properties', 'any', false, $blog) && $current_User->check_perm( 'blog_post_statuses', 'any', false, $blog) )
{
$this->is_blog_admin = true;

The plugin don't recognize urlhomepage and don't recognize admin.

Have any ideas?
It is possible a problem of subdomain?
but not work in any mode:
www.domain.com/?blog=5 not work
blogname.domain.com not work

Not work with user admin blog (i use autoblog) and not work with "superadmin" of all blog.

Hi! This is just a great forum – thank you all who are helping here!

I’m using b2evo 1.10. I have a problem with Usable Skin and Skin Areas plugins. I also have Autoblog plugin in use, if its settings have something to do with this. Otherwise the Autoblog plugin is working well.

In Usable Skin (1.9) plugin I have checked the box in Plugin Settings / Enable Personal Photo (”Each blogger may insert a Personal Photo which will be shown in the Sidebar of their blog.”).

In Skin Area plugin’s settings I have made available a skin area for ‘Personal Photo’. At first we made a default for this (our own logo) and it was shown properly in all new autobloggers’ blogs before the new blogger wanted the edit his/her Personal Photo. After we found the following problem, we took this default also off if it causes the following problem.

In blog’s Tools/Skin Areas the ‘Personal Photo’ area is visible and looks normal (the same as the other skin areas). When I put a image code here, nothing happens in the blog. I have tried to adjust the skin area’s name (Personal Photo, PersonalPhoto) but there’s no difference. The image code is the same that is used when a photo is attached to a post:
<div class="image_block"><img src="http://www.MyDomain.com/MyBlogSite/media/blogs/TestBlogger/MyPhoto.png" alt="" title="" width="186" height="97" /></div>

Probably there’s something wrong with the code as I didn’t find any instructions on using the Personal Photo Area and I have just tried different solutions to make it work... In this thread the link to “At this address you may see a demo: http://siti.fralenuvol.com/demouser/ ” is not working.

All other default areas of Usable Skin are working properly (Announcement, Homepage Content, Color Theme).

Can anyone help me please?

Hi Fani. Welcome to the forums! Kinda late to be replying, especially since all I can offer is is ... nothing. It seems the author of this awesome piece of work has moved on. That normally means it will simply not be supported anymore. :(

OK, thanks for replying anyway :-) I have to think some other solutions...