[NickToye]

Hi,

I know we are able to create an editable content block that the author can edit. But I would like to be able to allow them to edit the sidebar blocks also. Currently I have to render the sidebar block from within the template, and edit the content in the Page Blocks section. I would like my clients to be able to hover over the page, click Edit Content and be able to edit their main content block as well as a sidebar block also.

Any thoughts?

Nick

[NickToye]

Hi, anybody have any thoughts?

[NickToye]

Going to bump this again. I think it's quite a useful feature and currently is causing me an issue by it not being available.

[tomshp]

Hi Nick, did you end up finding a suitable work around for this? I needed to do this on a site recently and followed the procedure Aleksey outlined on this post:

http://forum.lemonstandapp.com/topic/209-global-content-blocks/

Plus added a bit of code to "trick" the page into not rendering the Content Block on the front end with the following:

eg.

<?php
	$norender = false;
	if($norender == true){
		  content_block('column_snippet_a', 'Column Snippet Top');
	}
?>
  

Then you can add into your sidebar code the "Cms_ContentBlock" code outlined in the forum post above.


So now our client can edit a block of text with the standard Page Content edit screen and have it appear where we need site wide or in particular templates.

Not ideal, but an effective and fast work around for now.

[NickToye]

I was hoping for a discussion about this, but thanks for replying.

Maybe I will suggest a more native method for the roadmap.

[NickToye]

Anybody else have any thoughts on this?

[NickToye]

Was wondering if this was likely to be implemented soon?

If it has already and I have missed it, my apologies.

Nick