Help with Menu.

[Sokora]

I've just installed pligg a few days ago and I have read lots of posts, but no where do I see a straight question on how to add additional buttons at the top(header). Like a FAQ or an ABOUT button.

Can someone please help me with what I presume to be an easy task that I am overlooking.

What needs to be done to acclomplish this?

I know it has to do with the header.tpl but have had no luck with modifying it.

[Yankidank]

EDIT: This has been updated. Part I (immediately below) teaches you how to add a button to the sidebar. Part II (my second post) teaches you how to modify the header navigational menu as requested by the original post.

Sidebar Menu: If you are using the default digitalnature template you do this:

1. Open /templates/digitalnature/sidebar_modules/misc_links_1.tpl
The contents of this file will look like this:

<li>
  <div class="box" id="sidenavbox">
    <h1><span class="expand"><a id="expnav" class="expand-up"></a></span><a class="htitle">{#PLIGG_Visual_Name#}</a></h1>
    <ul id="sidenav">
      <li><a href="{$my_pligg_base}/shakeit.php?part=upcoming&order=1">{#PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_For_Stories#}</a></li>
      <li><a href="{$URL_submit}">{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit_A_New_Story#}</a></li>
      {if $Enable_Sneak eq 'true'}
      <li><a href='{$URL_sneak}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Sneak#}</a></li>
      {/if}
      
      {if $Enable_Tags eq 'true'}
      <li><a href='{$URL_tagcloud}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Tags#}</a></li>
      {/if}
      <li><a href='{$URL_topstories}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Top_Stories#}</a></li>
      <li><a href='{$URL_topusers}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Top_Users#}</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</li>

2. Find where you wish to place your new button. I don't suggest adding more than 2 buttons to the header navbar because it will make it too wide for lower resolution computers. In this example I want to post a link after the "Live" (otherwise known as Sneak) button. As you can see the Live/Sneak button looks like this:

<li><a href='{$URL_sneak}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Sneak#}</a></li>

However, you must not forget that sneak has "if" tags around it, so it actually should look something like this:

{if $Enable_Sneak eq 'true'}
      <li><a href='{$URL_sneak}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Sneak#}</a></li>
      {/if}

These "if" tags check to see if your Pligg settings allow this button to be displayed. To make sure that the new button you are about to add is displayed, make sure that it's not found between these "if" tags.
Now that I have found where I need to place the new button, lets give you an example of what a new button would look like:

<li><a href='./faq-en.php'>About</a></li>

This example creates a new sidebar button the the left named "About" that points to your faq-en.php file.

From here you shuold know enough basic html to get you through it. Here's the end result with an "About" button placed after the Live/Sneak button.

<li>
  <div class="box" id="sidenavbox">
    <h1><span class="expand"><a id="expnav" class="expand-up"></a></span><a class="htitle">{#PLIGG_Visual_Name#}</a></h1>
    <ul id="sidenav">
      <li><a href="{$my_pligg_base}/shakeit.php?part=upcoming&order=1">{#PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_For_Stories#}</a></li>
      <li><a href="{$URL_submit}">{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit_A_New_Story#}</a></li>
      {if $Enable_Sneak eq 'true'}
      <li><a href='{$URL_sneak}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Sneak#}</a></li>
      {/if}
      <li><a href='./faq-en.php'>About</a></li>
      
      {if $Enable_Tags eq 'true'}
      <li><a href='{$URL_tagcloud}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Tags#}</a></li>
      {/if}
      <li><a href='{$URL_topstories}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Top_Stories#}</a></li>
      <li><a href='{$URL_topusers}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Top_Users#}</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</li>

[Sokora]

Hey Yankidank this was excellent. Very clear and more than helpful. Thanks!

However, I modified the misc_links1.tpl and that allowed me to have an "About" button on the left side. Not exactly what I wanted but now I know how to modify that part, which I can see happening in the future.

But what I am trying to actually do is add a button at the top of the page, after "Login" and "Register".

Thanks for the friendly directions though.

[Yankidank]

Whoops, my bad. I'll edit the above post to make it say "sidebar".
Part II, the header menu:
This method is similar to the first guide.

1. Open up /templates/digitalnature/header.tpl
2. Find:

<li id="navlogout"><a href="{$URL_logout}" class="main"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Logout#}</span></a></li>
{else}
<li id="navlogin"><a href="{$URL_login}" class="main"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Login#}</span></a></li>
<li id="navregister"><a href="{$URL_register}" class="main"><span>{#PLIGG_Visual_Register#}</span></a></li>
{/if} 
</ul>

Add a new line after any of the </li> or before <li>. It should look like this:

<li id="about"><a href="./faq-en.php" class="main"><span>About</span></a></li>