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1 Feb 19, 2008 04:16    

My b2evolution Version: 2.4

How is it possible to add two sidebars (with widgets) in b2evolution? I was just wondering, because there's only a single sidebar container (?).

So it is possible at all to add a sidebar #2 in a template?

2 Feb 19, 2008 10:52

Hi harishankar,

yes
yes

I will write a HOWTO later today

--F

3 Feb 19, 2008 15:39

Thanks Afwas. Looking forward to it.

4 Feb 19, 2008 17:35

I fell asleep this afternoon. Boy, am I a lucky guy. But you will have to wait till tomorrow.

:)

5 Feb 19, 2008 20:33

Afwas,

I'm very much interested in this as well. I look forward to seeing your write-up on it.

7 Feb 21, 2008 17:21

Afwas,

Nicely done on the write up. Now I like that weather widget :-)

Is it openly available?

Where can I find it.

Please advise.

9 Feb 21, 2008 17:39

Thanks Afwas, this will help me out. I read the HOWTO and you've explained it well.

10 Feb 21, 2008 18:23

Thanks Afwas,

That star in the weather plugin just sits so well on my page :-)

12 Feb 24, 2008 04:32

Afwas, I would just add a note to that tutorial to say that to view the newly added containers in an already installed skin (from the admin panel), we need to go back to "Skins Install" and click on "Reload containers".

13 Feb 24, 2008 04:37

harishankar wrote:

Afwas, I would just add a note to that tutorial to say that to view the newly added containers in an already installed skin (from the admin panel), we need to go back to "Skins Install" and click on "Reload containers".

Thanks, I added it to the FAQ

14 Feb 26, 2008 00:12

this method makes a lot of sense, but is not working for the custom skin. I noticed that my PHP file does not mention containers anywhere and I imagine that has something to do with it. I would like to add another sidebar to the left so that I can insert some images and hyperlink them (somehow - but I know I can't do that in the backgroud so I am hoping I can do that in a sidebar). It would be nice to have another sidebar to the right for ads but I would be just thrilled to have one to the left where I can hyperlink three pictures in some manner. Can you help?? Is a sidebar the wrong way to go about this or the right way?

Thanks!
Amy

15 Feb 26, 2008 00:18

Hi Amy,

The custom skin has one big problem: is has a background image. That is /img/bg.png and you will find it in the css.
If you want to widen the space for the cusom skin, you need to start with widening this background image with photoshop or Gimp or any other image editor.
What you should do is disabling this background image in the css first, then add the second column and finish with redoing the image. At that point you know exactly how wode you want it.
If need be I can help you.

Good luck

16 Feb 26, 2008 00:49

I had removed the image alltogether and I don't need to put it back. (I believe it was used to create the shadowing and I think it will be cleaner without it). so my skin did not have that. When I attempted the method, the third column was created, but it was a little too wide (it came out equal to the main area but I had set it in the CSS as equal to the right sidebar), but worse than that, the data from the main area was now appearing in the left sidebar and the data that should be in the right sidebar was gone. Also, my back office does not have a global settings tab, and does not have a button to reload containers. The last half of the instructions don't seem to pertain to me.

All of this effort is just to be able to fix a column of hyperlinked images at the left of the blog.

I definitely need help!

Thanks!
Amy

19 Feb 26, 2008 14:28

NOW I get it! I appreciate all the help.

THANKS!!
Amy

20 Feb 26, 2008 18:35

I realized that the reason I did not have tabs that others had is that I was running an old version of the software. one upgrade later and your 3 column skin is working GREAT!! I took your updated skin and used it as is tweaking only the colors and installed it. The only issue now is that my footer has decided to creep up into the sidebar at right. see it here:

http://vanderbilt-consulting.com/b2evolution/index.php?blog=2

I think it must be a CSS issue but I don't know enought about it understand what to do. Any advice?

Thanks!
Amy

21 Feb 26, 2008 19:03

Hi Amy,

It looks like you didn't close the divs for the last two images inside the Free HTML widget. This is what I see:

<a href="http://www.ytb.com/vanderbiltconsultingtravel" target="_blank">
        <div align="center"> 
<img border="0" src="http://www.vanderbilt-consulting.com/blogpictures/BlogAdTravel.jpg" width="136" height="181"></a>

<a href="mailto:avanderbilt@vanderbilt-consulting.com?subject=Booking Request">
        <div align="center"> 

<img border="0" src="http://www.vanderbilt-consulting.com/blogpictures/BlogAdBookDrV.jpg" width="136" height="181"></a>


This is what I expect to find:

        <div align="center">
<a href="http://www.ytb.com/vanderbiltconsultingtravel" target="_blank">
<img border="0" src="http://www.vanderbilt-consulting.com/blogpictures/BlogAdTravel.jpg" width="136" height="181"></a>
        </div>
        <div align="center"> 
<a href="mailto:avanderbilt@vanderbilt-consulting.com?subject=Booking Request">
<img border="0" src="http://www.vanderbilt-consulting.com/blogpictures/BlogAdBookDrV.jpg" width="136" height="181"></a>
        </div>

Looks like making these alterations will solve your problem.

Good luck

22 Feb 26, 2008 19:30

I am learning more code this week than I ever expected! Thanks for setting me straight :D

23 Feb 26, 2008 19:36

As a side effect you solved my last problem with this skin.
Do you see the line above the footer running through the right side vertical bar?
I looked at it yesterday, but couldn't find the solution *because my horizontal bar has the same color as the fading right side image*. I never knew it continued so far.
In the style.css file find:

p.baseline {
	width: 990px;	
	border-top: 1px solid #666;
	text-align: center;
	font-size: 74%;
	color: #880;
	padding: 1ex;
	margin: 0;
}


and change width to 990 px as mentioned here.

Good luck


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