Topic: How do I add "Featured Topics" to my homepage like those cools kids at Kete Horowhenua?
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The "Featured Topics" block that you see on a lot of Kete homepages is just plain HTML (with some CSS rules in the default theme thrown in) that you can copy, paste, and modify to suit for your site. It is not an automated Kete feature.
Here's what I do when I want to grab the "Featured Topics" block:
- go to the page I like that has the featured topics block
- in the browser, under edit or view menus, use the "view source" on that page
- find the bit that starts with "<h2>Featured Topics</h2>" and ends with a bunch of closing div tags (</div>) and a div like this:
<div style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; clear: left; width: 0px; height: 0px;"> </div> - then go to the your basket homepage and click "edit", in the description field, click the "HTML" button and paste the bit you copied in
- replace the href and src and h3 values that should point at your featured stuff (I.e. your URLs and topic titles, rather than Horowhenua's)
- click update and things should show up correctly in the rich text editor, however the exact formatting may not appear correctly until you save the overall edit (CSS rules may not take effect in the editor, but do when the page is displayed)
- Adjust as necessary, as your theme's CSS rules may have rules that mean you need to adjust things.
That's it. It's just HTML (with some CSS rules you have to take advantage of).
created How do I add "Featured Topics" to my homepage like those cools kids at Kete Horowhenua?
on Sep 29th, 2011 at 1:28 PM
