Store external text-based files as TxP articles

Benefits:

• Store all files in one place – MySQL database.
• Gzip compress for output. It’s actual for large javascript library such as jquery.
• Allow edit text files from Textpattern interface.
• Allows you to group and manage files as ordinary articles.

Other:

• If your need, make own RSS feed for your files.
• If your need, open comments for your files.

HowTo make it:

1. Install plugin aks_header

Get and install plugin aks_header

2. Create new page template “textfile”

<txp:aks_header file="1" strip="0" gzip="1" /><txp:article><txp:body /></txp:article>

3. Create new Section “file”

4. Exclude section “file” from your sitemap (optional)

5. Create new article (e.g. text-based file text/css/js/xml)

• Article Markup – MUST be Leave text untouched
• URL-only title – set correct extension for file
• Section – MUST be file

Optional:

• Fill Keywords (used tru_tags, etc)
• Set Category1, Category2
• Set categories rss_unlimited_categories
• Excerpt – some description, etc…

6. It’s ALL.

See result: aks_header.txt