I18N Special Pages

[Angryboy]

I am terribly excited about this plugin, because it is the final nail that your news plugin needs to be flawless (since this eliminates some of the manual labour that may put off new users).

I don't see a problem with it at the moment, so I only have one question. Is there a way that I can migrate my current news pages into this format? I have a great number of pages that I've spent hours correcting dates and times for and I'd hate to lose all of the time formatting I've needed to do.

Is the only way of doing so to remake the pages under 'Special Pages' and edit the xml files on the back-end to fix the 'date created' and 'published' dates?

---edit---
just realised that I didn't make the nature of my news pages clear - they are just regular pages with utilising custom fields, all viewed through your search plugin.

---edit #2---
Figured out how to do it. For anyone who needs to...

Using the file manager of your web provider, open the .xml file of the page that you wish to change from 'regular' to 'special'. Find the following:

Code:

<meta>

And insert after it:

Code:

[CDATA[_special_SPECIALNAMETYPE, SPECIALNAMETYPE]]

Where SPECIALNAMETYPE is the name of the type of the special page you've created, e.g. news. It should now read:

Code:

<meta>[CDATA[_special_SPECIALNAMETYPE, SPECIALNAMETYPE]]

Then find:

Code:

</meta>

and paste after it:

Code:

<special>SPECIALNAMETYPE</special>

So that it reads:

Code:

</meta><special>SPECIALNAMETYPE</special>

Where SPECIALNAMETYPE means what was previously said. Save the xml file and it should now be a Special page. Finally, edit the page in GetSimple, find the meta tags and delete the one with the square brackets on it and resave the page. Everything should then be sorted. It may be a lengthy manual process for those with many news items or articles, but that's all that's needed to make an already existing page 'special'.