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#1 2010-10-27 10:41:37

helmz

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Registered: 2010-09-14

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Basic question

How do I link to a page I created? It seems stupid but I dont know how… (I searched, believe me)

Like this:

<a href=“about.php”>About us</a>

and page name is ‘about’ , what code must I use or what..

thanks

#2 2010-10-27 11:52:54

Dragondz

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Re: Basic question

Hi have you linked the page to a section (in section tab) if you did that you can link using http://yourdomain/section or with messy url http://yourdomain/index.php?s=section

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#3 2010-10-27 12:10:00

Bloke

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Re: Basic question

If you’re linking to other articles while writing from the Write tab, the wet_quicklink plugin is indispensible. You can elect for it to insert (imo, the most useful) txp:permlink-style links which will put something like this in your article body on the Write tab:

<txp:permlink id="42" title="Life, The Universe and Everything"></txp:permlink>

That will then render a link to the article when viewed.

Last edited by Bloke (2010-10-27 12:10:26)

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#4 2010-10-27 15:55:16

helmz

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Re: Basic question

I think I havent explained well. In Presentation > Pages , I created a new page, called “about”, and Im wondering how to link my default page to about , I tryed something like page?=about but it isnt… then I don’t know how the link/see that page

#5 2010-10-27 17:13:57

els

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Re: Basic question

You can’t link to a page. A page has to be assigned to a section (in Presentation > Sections), and then you can link to the section with for instance <txp:section name="your-section">Link text</txp:section>. Or like Dragondz said.

<txp:section>
Tag Reference

But you might as well read a couple of tutorials.

#6 2010-10-28 07:43:37

helmz

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Re: Basic question

Oh, ok, I understood :O! Thanks guys.

#7 2010-10-28 09:00:58

helmz

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Re: Basic question

What do you recommend me to do the menu?, this?

<li><txp:section name="aboutus">About us</txp:section></li>

I did this to link home

<li><txp:section name=defualt">Home</txp:section></li>

is that correct?

Its first time I make a menu in txp and I didnt saw the section for default page, so I made a ‘Home’ section and said default page changed, but ‘Home’ sections hadnt show up

#8 2010-10-28 17:06:49

els

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Re: Basic question

link_to_home. And again: Tag Reference :)

#9 2010-10-28 17:35:05

GugUser

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Re: Basic question

If you want to link directly to a section, it is simpler to make it like this: <a href="/aboutus">About us</a>

And in the .htaccess RewriteBase / or some other working path.

#10 2010-10-31 01:37:04

radneck

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Re: Basic question

helmz wrote:

What do you recommend me to do the menu?, this?

If you want to do a section menu properly (that will always be correct if you add/rename/remove a section), use section_list. Additionally, you may find this helpful, and I’d recommend having a look through the default template that comes with TXP.