Flux CMS DevBlog

And here comes a new cool feature for the upcoming 1.5 release. The Blog Sidebar Editor. You can now rearrange, delete, add new "widgets" (term stolen from wordpress) to the 2 sidecolumns of your blog. It's hard to describe, therefore I made a little screencast which should tell more than thousands words:

To make your old blog.xsl working with the sidebar editor, you have to change your blog.xsl a little bit. Search for the following templates and replace them with:

<xsl:template name="contentRight">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="/bx/plugin[@name = 'blog']/xhtml:html/sidebar[@sidebar=2]"/>
</xsl:template>    
<xsl:template name="leftnavi">        
  <xsl:apply-templates select="/bx/plugin[@name = 'blog']/xhtml:html/sidebar[@sidebar=1]"/>
</xsl:template>

And if you didn't include it already, also add on top:

<xsl:import href="../standard/plugins/blog.xsl"/>

That's it. And if it doesn't work for you or you have problems with it, just ask, we're more than happy to help you out.

BTW, it uses the script.aculo.us library for those wondering.

Mid @ 14.08.2006 17:21 CET
Just started a blog today...new at all of this...not computer savvy...but would like to have control over my sidebar content/divide it up etc. Can you help me?? I DO need HELP!

Mythreyee @ 17.10.2006 22:32 CET
I have a food blog. I want side bars both the sides. The template has only one side bar in the left. I want side bar in the right side too to divide the content of the left side bar. can you help me. I find something like this in my template <!-- Begin #sidebar -->
<div id="sidebar"><div id="sidebar2">. does it mean that there is already a provision for the second sidebar?

chregu @ 18.10.2006 05:38 CET
Are you asking about support for your blogspot blog? If yes, then wrong place here :)

But if you're using Flux CMS/Freeflux, you just have to use a 3-columns based layout and you have sidebars on both sides :)

leo @ 25.12.2006 14:23 CET
Try this real cool feature out today, but it don't work. The html parts work. But the other ones like e.g. livesearch won't. They printed out the xml part in the html output whitout any conversion. So I switch back to my backup. My try is saved in the file blog.xsl-sidebartry if you would have a look at this after your holidays.

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