remove everything in sidebar but one menu

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remove everything in sidebar but one menu

I am integrating blog(wordpress) into our magento site. I am at the point to update handler in the blog.xml file. I want to display in sidebar only the blog menu but not other menus that are by default in the right sidebar. I know i can remove the right sidebar all together but then there is not sidebar to attach my blog menu.

How to do this - add single menu and remove rest of the menues in the sidebar?

Thank you,

Margots

+1 A:

Hy,

you can use unsetChild to remove content from any bar you like, and append to add any block you want.

See here how to use:

Magento Layout Files Reference

Or remove the complete sidebar and set your block you want to show in your sidebar with as="right" in your layout update xml.

2010-02-28 16:49:35

Thank you. I was able to do it one way but not quite another way.In the following is one way that worked: <remove name="right" /> <reference name="root"> <block type="blog2/blog" name="sideBlog" as="right" template="blog2/side.phtml"/> </reference>

latvian 2010-03-03 19:11:07

Here is the second way that need your help please<br> <reference name="right"> <action method="unsetChildren"></action> <action method="append"><block>blog.menue</block></action></reference>How do i create the blog.menu block in the layout file? I know how to do it in code, but i want to keep all structural work in layout file.

latvian 2010-03-03 19:14:19

How do you format these posts?...sorryThanks Again for helping to learn

latvian 2010-03-03 19:15:09

Hy,`unsetChild` is the correct value - NOT `unsetChildren`; if you want to unset more than one block, you have to unset every block on its own

2010-03-26 11:58:25

Zungerl, How will you know the names of all blocks in the sidebar? By unsetChildren you can remove all and then add blocks you need.

latvian 2010-05-11 20:49:33

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