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    Default change a category URL

    I hope this is in the right forum area. Anyway I have a list of categories setup. What I want to do is change one of the category links to point to an outside (meaning another website) page. What file and where could I do this for that specific category?

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    Default Re: change a category URL

    To accomplish this, (even though I would not recommend this), you'd need to edit your includes/modules/sideboxes/categories.php and your includes/templates/<your_template>/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php file.

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    Default Re: change a category URL

    Thanks for your help!

    Just a quick question so why would u not reccomend this? My reason for doing this is one of my categories right now is "auctions" and I want it to linkt to the my ebay auctions. (I know their is a ebay contribution but according to these forums its buggy) so I thought I would just make a link to ebay

    What would be an alternative way fo doing this then?

    Thanks Also is their a way to make one fo the ezpages have a link in the "information" box and not a spereate box I am just trying to reduce all the boxes on the page.

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    Default Re: change a category URL


    why would u not reccomend this?
    If the user is logged in, how would their sessions be transferred to the other web site without affecting sessions itself ?


    Thanks Also is their a way to make one fo the ezpages have a link in the "information" box and not a spereate box I am just trying to reduce all the boxes on the page.
    Right now, I don't think it has been coded to do so unfortunitely.

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    Default Re: change a category URL

    ok then I guess I will figure out another way to do this

    thansk for your time and help :-)

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    Default Re: change a category URL

    Quote Originally Posted by jay_reis
    Also is their a way to make one fo the ezpages have a link in the "information" box and not a spereate box I am just trying to reduce all the boxes on the page.
    An alternate way is to use the ezpages box, and create "internal link" ez-pages for the other entries from the information sidebox, and then turn off the information sidebox.
    Then you can use the ez-pages sidebox to drive most of your content, using internal links, external links, and direct HTML code.
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    Default Re: change a category URL

    here is my problem:
    2 of categories that when you click on them it displays the text from the main page along with the text that should be on that page... i dont know how to correct this... do you recommend going into the categories.php and making those changes to reflect the appropriate url?

 

 

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