hi eddyg and welcome to forums..

you can add any link you want with a free html widget in your widgets tab..

there are [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net//viewtopic.php?t=7880&highlight=gallery]gallery[/url] and [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net//viewtopic.php?t=13146&highlight=gallery]gallery2[/url] plugins and other plugins to help you display images, you have to dig through..cheers

hey there i tried the free HTML plugin in the menu area and it did make the text i wanted but its not a clickable link nor does it have the same button style as home and contact, its just basically text.

http://www.eddyg.ca/blog1.php

any thoughts? thanks for the speedy reply tilqicom

I think what im looking for is a menu link plugin that i can actually customize if im not mistaken?

you dont need a plugin or sth.. your 'test' is not an actual link.. it should be looking sth like this

<a href="http://www.someurl.com">test</a> , the style part is easy

ok i understand that part but its still just text theres no actual button so it doesnt match the other two links?

You need to edit your li's
Your TEST link doesn;t have an opening list item or a closing list item.... it should look like this....
<li><a href="http://www.someurl.com">test</a></li>

<div class="top_menu">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.eddyg.ca/blog1.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eddyg.ca/blog1.php?disp=msgform&amp;recipient_id=1&amp;redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netivex.com%2F%7Eeddyg%2F%3Fblog%3D1">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eddyg.ca/htsrv/login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netivex.com%2F%7Eeddyg%2F%3Fblog%3D1">Log in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.someurl.com">test</a></li><li><a href="http://www.eddyg.ca/blog1.php?disp=catdir">Categories</a></li>			</ul>

			&nbsp;
		</div>

Ok that looks better! Now I just have to figure out how to basically create a page with my blogs layout that I can link TO (from the header). Any ideas on how to do that?

Also I want to know if there is a widget that is setup for just linking to affiliates/news sites. I want these links to be displayed on the right side near the bottom.

Best regards,
eddy

John wrote:

You need to edit your li's
Your TEST link doesn;t have an opening list item or a closing list item.... it should look like this....
<li><a href="http://www.someurl.com">test</a></li>

<div class="top_menu">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.eddyg.ca/blog1.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eddyg.ca/blog1.php?disp=msgform&amp;recipient_id=1&amp;redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netivex.com%2F%7Eeddyg%2F%3Fblog%3D1">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eddyg.ca/htsrv/login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netivex.com%2F%7Eeddyg%2F%3Fblog%3D1">Log in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.someurl.com">test</a></li><li><a href="http://www.eddyg.ca/blog1.php?disp=catdir">Categories</a></li>			</ul>

			&nbsp;
		</div>

BUMP!

can no one help me with this? I want to use this blog system so bad i just need a few little things modded to my liking.

Re an Affiliates Page
B2 has a blog in the standard download, called Links Blog, that does just that.

ok i added the widget linkblog and added it above my calendar but i cant add the actual links or anything? just fields to change the name of the linkblog.

You make/change the links by making/editing posts ( admin > write ) in the linkblog ;)

¥

I went to write but I couldn't see the option to write to the linkblog (which is a widget?) can you clarify ?

- eddy

The linkblog is kinda weird these days. You install it as a widget into any blog. Part of installing it is to say which blog is going to be the linkblog for this particular blog. So like pretend you're on blog #1 and you install the linkblog widget and tell it to use blog #3 as your linkblog.

So now you go to blog #3 to make a post like you would for any 'normal' post, only all you do is a title and a "link to URL" value. Like magic it shows up in the sidebar on blog #1.

thanks for the response i double checked and made sure its on blog 1 and it is but when i goto make a normal post what do i actually put in the link to URL? I cant just put a friends link in there i think its for internal use only?

It's not internal use. Look when you post in your linkblog it's because you want to link the text "My friend Bob" to Bob's website. So you put the text in the title field and the URL in the link to url field. When you write a regular post you still might want to link it to some other web page, so you would use the link to url field. Or leave it blank if you don't want to link it elsewhere.

Now if you leave it blank in a linkblog (#3 eh?) then the linkblog on your main blog (#1 perhaps) will have text that is unlinked which defeats the purpose of a linkblog, but hey you might have a cool reason to do that.

Same with adding an actual post body in your linkblog posts: there could easily be a reason you want to do that. Perhaps you are not even using it as a "linkblog via the linkblog widget". Perhaps you are having your linkblog in your public blog list and decided to put 25 posts per page and always have a sentence or two about why these links are things you want your visitor to know about.

The linkblog widget is a somewhat advanced way to make a list of links, and by using a blog for it you get to do all sorts of stuff that you couldn't do if it was just a plain-jane list of links.

But anyway it's not an internal use field. It links the title to a URL is all. Use it, or leave it blank. UNDER your post textarea should be a field that says something about post URL title or something like that. Anyway the field under your posting textarea you should leave blank and let b2evolution fill it in for you until you get familiar with what it does.