Adding blocks and pages to home page

[kerrysg]

Hi all,

In addition to the categories (now products) block on the home page, I am also trying to create a block with customer care pages, and a block with resource pages. (If you have a look at my development site, you'll see what I mean). Have created the blocks, but can't work out how to allocate individual pages to each one. At the moment, all the pages are appearing in both blocks.

I'm sure there must be an easy way to do this, but I can't work out how to do it. Any advice would be really appreciated.

Many thanks,

Kerry

[kerrysg]

Sorry development site is http://bp79.betapark.co.uk/

[CJB64]

Ok I will give it a go at explaining!
1. go to block manager and create a new block with title for example customer care entered in the right hand side of the block editor screen. In the left hand side of the screen, type the wording that you want to attach a link to e.g. Customer Feedback.
2. Highlight the wording and then click the hyperlink icon in the edit menu bars just above - decided a screenshot might be better!
BP.jpg

Hope that makes sense!

[kerrysg]

That's great - thank you so much for your help. Really helpful - have been trying to do that all evening!

Sorry to be a pain, but is there an easy way to format the menu links for these blocks to look the same as those in the category block? Have had a look in template editor, but the custom links aren't conforming to the standard menu settings.

Thanks again.

[CJB64]

Mmmm, now your getting into css styling I think! I dont know anything about code sorry

[kerrysg]

CSS styling - that sounds a bit scary! Many thanks again for all your help - really appreciated.

[liquid]

I am trying to do this as well - create a block with a menu that looks the same as the 'Catalogue'. I can create the block easily enough and understand how to add the links to the pages. But how on earth do you then style those links to look the same as the 'Catalogue' ones?

The Bluepark demo site http://www.demopark.co.uk has extra menus in the left side bar styled the same as the 'Catalogue' ('Information' for example) so it must be possible. Can Rich or someone with the knowledge please reply and let us know how it is done?

[liquid]

Ok, I figured it out myself.

All you have to do is go to the HTML editor on the left side of the Block Editor and wrap the links in a DIV with the ID 'catalogue':

<div id="catalogue">
<a href="/link-one.html" target="_self">Link One</a>
<a href="/link-two.html" target="_self">Link Two</a>
<a href="/link-three.html" target="_self">Link Three</a>
</div>

Hope this helps.

[Cate]

If you wanted seperate menus, the same as on the demopark.co.uk site, all you need to do is create a new category in the Category Manager and move it to the position you want the new menu to start. Then name this category what you want that menu's title to be and tick the Heading Only field. Any categories that sit below this heading category in the Category Manager will then sit in the second menu on the website. This way it is styled exactly the same as the first 'catalogue' menu and is dynamically populated with the links.

[liquid]

Cate, your method is a lot simpler. I hadn't realised you could do this and it is very easy.

But, my method has it's merits - you can create a dedicated block or blocks with different menus and place them anywhere on the page. You are not limited to having them appear only below the main 'Catalogue'.