adding extra Categories/link
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You mean a new block in the sidebar with partners right? Then read on.
This may sound like much text and stuff to do, but some explaining is there as well.
First of create a new menu in ACP at Content -> manage menus -> Create new Menu tab.
Then add a few links to it by going to the Add new menu item tab and select the menu which you want to add it to.
Now when you edit that menu "Sidebar" or however you named it, which you created before, you will see a template tag which you have to use. Its located at the menu details right to the menu name.
Copy this template tag ( most likely {$menu-2} )
Now you will want to put this into your template, asuming you use parabola go to Settings -> Skins and Categories and click "Edit Child"
This is only supported in VL 0.8, so you dont need to edit the main parabola files.
On that page see all the files below "Select Template to Copy" ?? Click on wrapper.html and screen.css
That will copy them into the parabola child folder so you can update parabola safely in the future
Now you see your 2 new child files under "Edit Child Template", click on wrapper.html and find
* if not on 0.8 or your server dont support editing from admin control panel, you need to create a folder named "child" in parabola and copy wrapper.html and screen.css to that folder
And below that put
Replace {$menu-2} with the template tag from your new menu
Now this is the minimum, to give a little extra to it and style it the same way as for example the rankings method menu, in wrapper.html find this
Change that to
menu-2 is your template tag again, change if needed. This change is to give it the same hover effect as the other sidebar menus
Next a small css change
in screen.css
change to
menu-2 is agin your template tag
This will give this new menu the same styling as the other menu blocks on the sidebar.
This may sound like much text and stuff to do, but some explaining is there as well.
First of create a new menu in ACP at Content -> manage menus -> Create new Menu tab.
Then add a few links to it by going to the Add new menu item tab and select the menu which you want to add it to.
Now when you edit that menu "Sidebar" or however you named it, which you created before, you will see a template tag which you have to use. Its located at the menu details right to the menu name.
Copy this template tag ( most likely {$menu-2} )
Now you will want to put this into your template, asuming you use parabola go to Settings -> Skins and Categories and click "Edit Child"
This is only supported in VL 0.8, so you dont need to edit the main parabola files.
On that page see all the files below "Select Template to Copy" ?? Click on wrapper.html and screen.css
That will copy them into the parabola child folder so you can update parabola safely in the future
Now you see your 2 new child files under "Edit Child Template", click on wrapper.html and find
* if not on 0.8 or your server dont support editing from admin control panel, you need to create a folder named "child" in parabola and copy wrapper.html and screen.css to that folder
Code:
{$sidebar_1_bottom}
Code:
<h3 class="heading">Your text</h3>
{$menu-2}Now this is the minimum, to give a little extra to it and style it the same way as for example the rankings method menu, in wrapper.html find this
Code:
$(".category_menu > li a").hover(
Code:
$(".category_menu > li a, .menu-2 > li a").hover(Next a small css change
in screen.css
Code:
.category_menu li{
Code:
.category_menu li, .menu-2 li {This will give this new menu the same styling as the other menu blocks on the sidebar.