How to make a navigation panel??

[Aretherk]

d3waypoint dot com
I cannot figure it out for the life of me, and the forums doesn't have any information on it.

Basically what I am trying to do is make a panel on the left hand side that will have all of the information on the top duplicated in this module.

home
forum
etc
etc

[IchBin]

You can do it many different ways. TP has the menu manager where you can create menu's and add links to them. Once you've created the menu in the menu manager you can then create a block and select the menu type for it. Then select the menu you want in the settings of the block and it will automatically show the menu in the block.

Or you could even create just an HTML/javascript block and add your own code in for the links.

[Aretherk]

Sweet! Ty! okay, I got that in the works right now

Another question - How can i take off the tiny portal on the upper bar when not logged in? and make it appear once an admin is logged in, and only admins can see it?

sorry, im still really new to TP and I really want my site to look its best, thanks in advance!

[IchBin]

In Sources/Subs.php find:

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'tpadmin' => array(
'title' => 'TinyPortal',
'href' => $scripturl . '?action=tpadmin',
'show' =>  TPcheckAdminAreas(),
'sub_buttons' => array(
),

Change this:
'show' =>  TPcheckAdminAreas(),

To this:
'show' =>  allowedTo('admin_forum'),

[Aretherk]

Sweet! Perfect!!

Thanks so much

Now to just figure out why my background images dont show up for some people when they first load the site...

I think this going to be a hard one

[ZarPrime]

Now to just figure out why my background images dont show up for some people when they first load the site...

I think this going to be a hard one

Aretherk,

Your site loads very slowly for me and when it does finally load up, it appears that you don't even have a theme, not even the default SMF theme.  In fact, this causes the SMF copyright to not even show up.  Even if you don't use a custom theme, the SMF default theme for your version of SMF is required so that things can load properly.  Now this is an SMF issue and you should probably ask about this over there but did you somehow delete the default SMF theme from your install.

[Aretherk]

Yea, I have a theme on it, but I am not sure why it loads so slowly - or why it doesnt show any theme at all once it does load.

The default theme is still there.

Once you load it the first time, then hit refresh - the site theme finally loads.

any ideas?

[Skhilled]

I'm assuming that you've updated the site without switching to the default theme first OR you have lost the style sheet for that theme.

You can try 2 things:

1.  Go to Themes and Layout and Theme Settings. Click on "Attempt to reset all themes".

If that does not work:

2.  Download repair_settings.php from SMF.org and run it to make sure you theme links are reset. You still may have to follow step one again if it does not show automatically.

The long load times are because of rss blocks or ads that you have on your site...which may also have something to do with it. So, you can also try this which will turn all blocks off:

www.yoursite.com/index.php?action=admin;noblocks

Then enable the blocks one at a time testing each one to make sure it works and for loading times until you've narrowed it down.

[Skhilled]

It is hanging on i1.ytimg.com...probably the youtube vid of the week on the front page.

[Aretherk]

hmm, it still does it with the video gone