Special Features
Special Features are custom widgets for your website that add functionality for things like editing and advanced pages. Typically, not all clients need these, however, if you want to use one of the special features please contact us and we will gladly install for you.
Custom Targeted Sidebar Content
Normally the sidebars are used for secondary menus, lists, polls, forms, etc. Each of these is called a "block" and these blocks are managed a bit differently from typical pages.
When a customer has many pages that have an accompaning sidebar block it becomes a little cumbersome to create a new block for each page. Therefore a custom block is used that knows what content should go with a page. This way a single block can do the work of many. However only the site admin who knows PHP should configure the block.
Since the custom block is written in PHP code there has to be an easy way for clients to find and edit the content. This is accomplished by putting an [edit] link above the sidebar block when the client is logged in.
The link is a shortcut to the block's content page where the page is edited like any other.
Link on custom sidebar content
Styles and Icons for Inline Links
Inline links are those that you put into the content of your pages "inline" with the words. These are not the same as links in the menus.
Sometimes it is useful to add an icon with the link. For example you want to add a "download" icon next to a link:
Steps:
- Highlight the word you want to make into a link
- Click the Link icon in the editor and a form window pops up.
- Add the URL for the link
- Click on the Styles drop-down and choose which style you want.
TinyMCE Link Pop-up form