Adding Pages to your network

[Phil McCluskey]

The instructions for adding pages to your network have been moved into the wiki. You can find them here.

[Rick Alderfer]

Alexis:

Here is a site that has a cheat sheet with a whole lot of basic html codes that are easy to follow and understand. Good luck!

http://www.angelfire.com/nm/thehtmlsource/html/cheatsheet.html

Rick

[IMM]

just create a new directory and add a widget-configuration.xml file. copy the code you used to create your additional page or forum into that widget-config file and change the widget id (e.g. I use widget id's from 500 upwards for each of my new pages and forums) give your new pages or forums a different display name

voila.

Also I also have a Ning site i use just to test things out...not a bad idea if you can't afford a developer to do beta testing before go live.

[Homer]

Hello Phil,

We are launching a ning network for our member base. Currently, we have tens of thousands (40-60k, waiting for the final count) of members and are going to send out invitations to them to join our ning site, in the next couple of days. However, until we get a good number of our existing members signed up, I don't want them to see that we only have "10" members. I am trying to hide the Members tab on the home page.

Also, a couple of us have recently attempted to change the picture in our header area. Unfortunately, it will let me browse for the picture and select it but when t refreshes after hitting the save button, nothing changes. I even tried to put our original picture back on the page but I couldn't get it to take that either. Help?

Having said all of that, I like the fact that ning currently maintains the code and feel insecure about losing that umbrella of security. Any suggestions?

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Homer,

You can use some css in the tracking code area to hide the members tab. Something like this should do the trick:

<style>
#xg_tab_members {display:none !important;}
</style>

Please let us know about the other issue via the help center and someone will investigate and follow up.

Thanks,
Phil

[Homer]

Phil,

Thank you SOOOO much for your quick response. Your Members tab advice worked perfectly. Also, I made the request for someone to look into my graphic uploading issue.

One more question regarding hiding the number of members. Will the number of members be displayed anywhere else on the site? If so, can you tell me how to hide them as well?

Thanks,

Toby (aka Homer)

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Toby,

The number of members will also appear on the badge that's in the lower right corner of the network by default (have a look at the badge for Network Creators here). You should be able to remove the badge from the front page temporarily via the Manage > Features page or else hide badges with the tracking code instructions.

Cheers,
Phil

[Homer]

Phil,

Thank you for your quick responses today.

I did go ahead and hide the badges for now. However, the only reason I want to hide the badges is until we get our member numbers up and I was hoping to use the badges to assist us in the effort. So, is there a way to take out the number of members but still retain the badge?

Also, I can't seem to figure out how to remove the "Get your 713houston badge" link off the bottom of the page.

Thanks,

Toby

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Toby,

You can go into your language editor and search for 'N_MEMBERS', then update the two lines that look like this:


$a['N_MEMBERS']['1'] = ' 1 Member';
$a['N_MEMBERS']['n'] = ' %s Members';

and replace '1 Member' and '%s Members' with your replacement text. You cannot leave these blank though, since that will cause 'undefined' to appear in place of the member count.

Thanks,
Phil

[Homer]

Phil,

I appreciate the in depth answer to Toby's question. It is this type of personal help that makes Ning such a wonderful site.

I've got yet another question for you which I hope you will be able to help me.

Q: I wish to have an option for users to access my site with either english content and language or spanish content and language. I have seen some sites where you simply click on a small button to change the language of the content. I usually see this as a 2 small flags (1 US, 1 Spain). Is this possible with ning?

Thanks,

Homer

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Homer,

There's no option for doing something like that on Ning right now. It could be built as custom development, but it represents a very large undertaking.

Thanks,
Phil

[Homer]

Phil,

Thank you for such a quick answer to a question that I really needed answered. You're the quintessence of someone dedicated to providing quality answers in the shortest period of time.

Thank you,

Homer

[Sandy]

Hey Guys,

I created a tab page that I want for all my members to have access to create new pages. When they do, the editor completely disregards users' next line text. Meaning each time they try, for instance to do this:

"I want to type like this
Lalalala
Im happy
This is fun"

The page actually comes out to this:

"I want to type like thisLalalalaIm happy This is fun"


I hold a musicians network, so the reason of this tab is to post lyrics.
Is there any way to fix this for them so the editor automatically inserts
where it's needed.