WSN Knowledge Base

Custom Pages

Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:55:25 GMT

At Admin Panel -> Themes -> Custom Pages, you have the option to add custom pages to your site. Custom pages are very much like custom templates, but they apply across all your themes. Unlike custom templates, they can't be overlayed on a specific other page (they're for new pages, not alternate versions of existing pages).

Fill in the title and content to create the custom page. You can use HTML and toplists (Admin -> Themes -> Toplist Generator) in the content, as well as all the usual template variables.

Once you've created a custom page, it'll give you the linking code you can use to reference it. Normally you would want to link to it in your wrapper template, Admin Panel -> Themes -> Manage Templates -> "Wrapper".

For Versions 9.0+

As of WSN 9, you can choose to edit in either plain text or WYSIWYG mode -- plain text is safer, WYSIWYG will usually work but could mangle some syntax if including toplists etc. You can also now specify a custom URL for the page if you have URL rewriting on (if you want URL rewriting on, go to Admin -> Settings -> SEO). There's also an option to include the page in the main menu... if you select this, the page will be automatically added to the main menu which appears at the top of your site and will appear in your menu manager at Admin -> Customizations -> Menu Manager.

Multi-Step Submission Templates

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:57:01 GMT

Sometimes, you may want to break the long submission page (let's assume "submit article" for example) into multiple steps. As of version 6.2.6, you can make custom templates for each additional step.

Go to the template editor at Admin Panel -> Themes -> Manage Templates. In the regular submit article template, find the submit button HTML -- in a multilingual install it'll be

<button type="submit" name="processform" value="1" class="submitbutton">{LANG_GENERAL_SUBMIT}</button>

, in an english-only install the {LANG_GENERAL_SUBMIT} will be replaced with "Submit". Change this button to

<button type="submit" name="step" value="yourstep2" class="submitbutton">Continue to step 2</button>

.

After saving that, find the create a custom template area toward the bottom of the template editor page. There, create a custom template named yourstep2template (or whatever name you put in step 2 button value). Copy the contents of the submit article template into there and remove all parts you don't want to be on the step 2 page (and remove everything from the submit article template that you don't want to have on the step 1 page).

You can create a step 3 simply by using

<button type="submit" name="step" value="yourstep3" class="submitbutton">Continue to step 3</button>

as the submit button html of step 2. For the final page, the submit button will be the original code but you'll need to modify the preview button to specify the template of your final submit page... if that's submitstep2.tpl, use

<button type="submit" name="processform" value="1" class="submitbutton">Submit</button>
<button type="submit" name="preview" value="submitstep2" class="previewbutton">Preview</button>

To present a button which when pushed will take the user to a previous step, use

Replace suggestlink with the appropriate step's template if it's not going back to the first step.

Warning: The CAPTCHA/challenge, WYSIWYG description and any file uploads have to be on the final step of the submission in order to work.

Custom Suggest Article Pages

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:44:16 GMT

To make a custom submit article template, just edit the category and select the desired template where it prompts for a custom submit article page. In making the custom template at Admin -> Themes -> Manage Templates -> "custom templates", just copy the existing "submit article" template and modify as desired.

You may also want to see the Different Custom Fields Per Category article or learn how to to multi-step submission pages.

Calling Custom Wrapper

Mon, 05 Jan 2004 23:40:20 GMT

There are times when you may find it necessary to load a speciality wrapper for a page. If you want a specific category to have its own wrapper, just edit the category to specify the new wrapper where it asks. On other pages, you can modify the url by adding customwrapper=specialwrapper.

Your anchor tag will go from
<a href="index.php?action=userlogin">Login</a>
to
<a href="index.php?action=userlogin&customwrapper=specialwrapper">Login</a>

No Wrapper

Mon, 05 Jan 2004 23:26:27 GMT

This seems to be used more for pop-up's than anything else, but you may find other times when you do not want the wrapper to load into a page.

To call for no wrapper add:

userwrapper=no

So in the following anchor tag you would change this:
<a href="index.php?action=userlogin">Login</a>

to this:
<a href="index.php?action=userlogin&usewrapper=no">Login</a>

or
<a href="index.php?action=userlogin&usewrapper=no">Login</a>

You can also place it before the action like this:
<a href="index.php?usewrapper=no&action=userlogin">Login</a>

Be sure to add the & either before or after depending on where you place it in the anchor tag.

You'll normally be combining usewrapper=no with custom=yes&TID=yourtemplatename to specify a custom template. For example:
<a href="index.php?action=userlogin&custom=yes&TID=speciallogin&usewrapper=no">Login</a>
Be sure that the speciallogin custom template contains a full HTML page from <html> to </html> since there will be no wrapper around it.

You can also set a particular template to never be used with the wrapper, by placing this html comment anywhere in the template:

When that appears anywhere in a template, no wrapper will be shown on any page where the template is used.