Adding extra links to the menu!

AndrewH

Hi im looking to add an about page etc on my installation of Status.net.
In which i mean using the theme and a copy of the page for text.
How can i add extra menu items and achieve this extra page?

Regards,
Andrew.

AndrewH

Wish someone would answer.

jordanc

@AndrewH there already is an about page at the bottom, you can modify the contents of those pages by editing the files in /doc-src/

AndrewH

Okay, but if i was to want to add another page, is this possible?
Thanks alot :)
Regards,
Andrew.

jordanc

@AndrewH not easily, your best bet is to make a plugin to add another menu item, or if you just want a link you can put one in the site notice from the admin panel.

AndrewH

Thanks, can you put HTML in the site notice?
Thanks.

jordanc

Yes, but it counts towards the character count.

AndrewH

Nice :) So not much html :P Surely you could change the character count for it?
jordanc

jordanc

@AndrewH right now it's limited to 255 chars by the way it's stored in the database, it may change in the future, but it is not easy to change.

AndrewH

Okay, thank you :)

AndrewH

Oh but where would i create the actual page?

Thanks

jordanc

Somewhere on your host, that's up to you...

AndrewH

But i mean the html file, what page would i copy to get the style of the about page to change the text and html on it?

Thanks

jordanc

@AndrewH it doesn't really work like that, you can take a look at the files in the /themes directory and see the css and try to emulate it, or just view source on one of the rendered pages, but the files in the software do not really correlate to the generated pages that you see when you're looking at the page.

AndrewH

So where the does the link for the about page come into place?
Display.css?

purge

They are not HTML as such, look in the docs folder on your server and you will find them there like 'source' you can make new files and link them up, I did it like this:



http://tinyurl.com/3ywjtjo

I think this is what you are referring to :)

AndrewH

Yes thats right!
so make a source file like the about pages etc in Doc's,
Im going to link these up in the Site Notice.
Make the links is easy, is there any code that NEEDS to be in the file so it will look like the current theme?

purge

Not really, I am using standarded HTML code in any of the created files and they work fine and with selected theme CSS :)

If you take a look at the Powered By StatusNet plugin you can edit that like I have to make extra links etc. Not sure if it works on the current beta version though.

AndrewH

Okay, How are the About etc pages linked up?
they are just files with text in?
How could i do this but add html?
Or do i have to completely copy and make a whole html page??

Kinda regards,
Thanks for your help,
Andrew.

purge

In the default install of status net they are not linked, they display by clicking separate links in the header or footer, I just made all the pages I wanted and created a menu at the top of each of those pages to link it all together.

So if you make a new file called hello the URL would be http://yoursite.com/doc/hello

All pages would be like that, as in doc/about

So linking them up is easy.

AndrewH

Okay, one more question, in the about page, there is no html, can you use html tags in there?

Thanks!

purge

If I am honest I really can't remember, it was month ago I played with status and I'm not in front of my server. Why not make up a page and try some stuff out, see what works and does not?

It's good for the soul :))

AndrewH

Hahaha, Okay i will do when i get on my pc :) x

AndrewH

Thanks, ive creating the pages, linking them up in my site notice, is there no way to get them into the actual menu on the left hand side or at the top?

purge

Only by building a plugin, check the wiki for examples on how to do that.

AndrewH

Okay :)
Thank you