Creating new sidebox

[gjh42]

Seeing your main site nav and your shop, I observe that there is a still easier way to get the nav sidebox you want: ez-pages. You can create ez-page external or internal links with the names you want, enable them in the ez-pages sidebox, and style the links with your stylesheet to look just like the main site. No PHP or HTML coding needed at all, just CSS.

[JayR]

Thank you for the ez-pages direction. How do I get the links show up in my blank_sidebox? In the ez-pages setup there is a choice of 'sidebox' and if I choose it then they show up in the right side column box called "Important Links." I have a feeling that maybe by playing with order I can get them into blank sidebox? I have tried different order numbers for sidebox, but didn't move out of "Important Links."

[gjh42]

The "sidebox" setting is for the ez-pages sidebox (titled "Important Links").

If you want to use them separately, you can turn off the ez-pages from sidebox (but keep the sort order), and use the zen_ez_pages_link(##) function (where ## is the ez-page id) in your blank sidebox. You need to ensure that it is used as PHP code and not HTML text markup.
Similar to this:
<?php echo zen_ez_pages_link(##) ?>
for each link.