HOWTO: Fix relative links/Invalid navbar links in PP

Furvy · June 2nd, 2008, 09:11 PM

I'm seeing a ton of these threads having to do with fixing the issue with relative links in templates. This is the bug which occurs in an integrated PP and vB setup in which the navbar links and the login form change to that of the photopost installation, thus becoming invalid.

What you need to go to first is either the 'navbar' or 'header' template. My eXtremepixels skin had navbar links in the 'header' template.

'header':
Styles & Templates --> Style Manager --> All Style Options --> Edit Templates --> header

'navbar':
Styles & Templates --> Style Manager --> All Style Options --> Edit Templates --> Navigation / Breadcrumb templates --> navbar

Note: These links may not be EXACT in your skin, but they will be SIMILAR.

Fixing the navbar:
Find:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Replace with:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Where http://yourdomian.com corresponds to your domain and yourforum corresponds to your vB installation.

Just copy and paste http://yourdomain.com/yourforum/ in front of the rest of the following links. You will have to find each one of these links in your template.:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

The end result should be like this after you've gone through and edited all of the links:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Then click "Save and Reload"

Fixing the login form:
My login form was in 'navbar', but yours may be different. To find it go to:

Styles & Templates --> Search in Templates --> In "Search for Text", enter:


In "Search in Style", select your style. Then click "Find". Then double-click on the template name found after the search.

Find  and look for:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Change it to:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Then click "Save and Reload"

That should fix (MOST) of the navbar links, and will fix the login form. This is not a complete guide. Hopefully someone else can add some more links which were not covered. A couple of these are "Social Groups" and "Pictures & Albums" under Networking under Quick Links.