[ForumEngine] Complete menus and widgets
1. How to create the menus
Path Appearance > Menus in back-end
ForumEngine supports the header and footer menus. You can use to add, sort or display priority information in your site. You can follow these steps to create the menu
- Go to Appearance > Menus
- Choose [Create] a new menu
- Insert [Menu name] then click [Create] menu
- To create a header menu similar to our demo site, check [Blog]; [Threads index], [Following thread] at Pages section
- Click [Add to menu] then [Save menu]. You can also drag the items to the suitable order
- Finally, on Theme Locations, select where you want it to appear. In this case, it is [Header menu] and click [Save] to finish
- After completing your settings, the Header menu will be displayed as below in the front-end. You can do the similar settings for footer menu
2. How to use the widgets
Path Appearance > Widgets in back-end
In [Available Widgets] section, there are a lot of widgets that you can add to some sidebars on the right. You can add a widget by dragging it to any supported sidebars such as: Homepage Sidebar, Single Thread Sidebar, etc.
After adding widgets, you can customize it by click on the widget which has just been added and set up some data for it