URL to your eFiction: www.tabootwins.com
Version of eFiction: 3.5.2
Have you bridged eFiction, if so with what?: no
Version of PHP: 5.2.11
Version of MySQL: 4.0.21
Have you searched for your problem: yes
If so, what terms did you try: custom page problem, custom page not showing. Blocks not showing, blocks blank.
State the nature of your problem: Alright, so I am having two problems, one with the custom pages and one with the blocks.
Do you have a test account for us? Yes, name: emerald password: oolala
I am using a skin created by Kali. I am trying to get to get two custom pages one is for my foums and one is for my chat box, to appear on the main menu bar, but the coding I have tried is not working. Also my polls block is not showing up even though I have it enabled in the variables.php. I also wanted to create an Affiliates block, but it keeps messing up my site when I add the div. I red the readme that comes with Kali's skin, but the coding in the header.tpl is confusing to me, it doesn't look anything like what the wiki shows.
To put links in the menu bar in Kali's skins she usually puts that in the header.tpl file. Other skinners may put this in index.tpl or other files. This would explain why it looks different from the wiki instructions.
<!-- START BLOCK : header -->
<body>
<div id="menu">
<ul id="menulist">
<li>{home}</li>
<li>{login}</li>
<li>{tos}</li>
<li>{rules}</li>
<li>{help}</li>
<li>{register}</li>
<li>{adminarea}</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="container">
<div id="banner">
</div>
<div id="submenu">
<ul id="submenulist">
<li>Browse By:</li>
<li>{recent}</li>
<li>{authors}</li>
<li>{catslink}</li>
<li>{titles}</li>
<li>{series}</li>
<li>{challenges}</li>
<li>{tens}</li>
<li>{search}</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="mainpage">
<div id="content">
<!-- END BLOCK : header -->
If you have set up a pagelink for your forum as for example 'forum' then add to the list above as
<li>{forum}</li> on the list. Or remove one from the list. I don't use Challenges for example so change the {challenges} to {forums}. Polls probably haven't turned up because you haven't turned that block on in ADMIN->BLOCKS (Go there and click Initalize block for Shoutbox if you are using that).
Stuff that is left and right columns for the berry skins are found in the index.tpl.
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Mucking around in eFiction since circa 2001 (ver. 1.0)
Now running v.3
Also check out this wiki article: https://efiction.org/wiki/index.php5?title=How_to_change_the_site_menu
OMG! I love you! It worked, except the polls is not working still....Is there a certain type of code that I have to use when filling out the polls?
Make sure that {poll_title} and {poll_content} is in your skin.
Actually in the blueberry skin, poll is in the index.tpl. (on the left column under Site stats. That is one of the blank boxes is underneath Site Info on your site. Have you initialized Polls in your Admin-> Block->Poll?
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Mucking around in eFiction since circa 2001 (ver. 1.0)
Now running v.3
yes, it is set to index.
Try using Active and see if it pulls up anything.
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Mucking around in eFiction since circa 2001 (ver. 1.0)
Now running v.3
I'm not familiar with the skin, but you mentioned a variables.php. You want to make sure that poll block is set to 1 or 2 there. If it's controlled in the variables.php, changing the option in the admin control panel won't change anything.
it's set to 2. I tried putting on active, that didn't work and now I am having an issue with coding on one of the stories on the that a person uploaded. All the others are fine, but you can see the coding on hers. I went into the editor, but everything shows up like it should there....
