Extension talk:CustomNavBlocks

Error in Mediawiki 1.16.0
Upon installing this extension, I got the following error at the top of my wiki: Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in .../extensions/CustomNavBlocks.php on line 46 Any ideas? --Gossamer 04:12, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

put TOC into sidebar
Could I use this extension to put a TOC for a page in the sidebar?--Two7s clash 14:34, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

edit tag
Can this extension switch off its edit tag? I seem to have one. Bsmither 17:11, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I'm the only one seeing this as I'm the WikiSysop and as such, in the WikiMedia namespace, I can edit.Bsmither 02:50, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

User-defined sidebars
Is it possible for each user to change their sidebar in a custom way? 


 * Users may use JavaScript to customize their sidebars, as seen in Manual:Interface/Sidebar. If most users are not technicians and thus are unable to write the necessary javascripts themselves, then wiki admins may create and provide predefined gadgets for their users. —79.143.76.66 11:51, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Blocks with capital letters
Is there a way for the blocks to start with capital letters? No mater what I do in the control page the block titles start with lower case letters. Do I need to edit the css? Thanks --Jeff.worldwide 19:48, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late reply, but: This seems to be a problem with the english MediaWiki. This wiki (for which I originally wrote this extension) doesn't have this problem, but this wiki does. Also, the this wiki also has its block with lower-case strings. I will look into the matter and post it here. -- Mati 09:47, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, that was quick. Please see the upper-case block-titles-chapter on the subject-page. -- Mati 10:30, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

CustomNavBlocks version 2.0.0 requires MediaWiki version 1.13.0
If installed on MediaWiki 1.12.0 or older, CustomNavBlocks version 2.0.0 does display only the titles of navigation blocks, but not their content.

The  contains   equal to '2.0.0-1.13.0'

The author should have raised the minimal required MediaWiki version 1.10.0 &rarr; 1.13.0 accordingly. —83.239.75.66 19:09, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Is there any way to get the version 2.0.0 working on MW 1.12? Thanks, Jiri. --78.24.13.212 21:29, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
 * There is no known way, and thus you should upgrade your MediaWiki to 1.13.5 or 1.14.0 instead. —79.143.76.66 11:39, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Using CustomNavBlocks version 2.0.0 over MediaWiki version 1.14.0
After upgrading MediaWiki to version 1.14.0, you may need to purge (manually!) each of your custom nav blocks and their list (your MediaWiki:CustomNavBlocks), especially if your MediaWiki skin has not been upgraded to MW1.14 yet. —79.143.76.66 11:39, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Conflicts with SidebarEx?
Hi. It works fine with me (Mediawiki 1.14), but it seems to conflict with SidebarEx. As soon as I activate SidebarEx, CustomNavBlocks stops working. Any suggestions? Thanks! MIkii

Search Bar & Titles
Im wanting the search bar to appear above the other sections created by the extension, im also wanting to remove the default section titles, how is this done?

Currently ive changed the css of h5 to 1% font size.. but prefer them to not be there (www.aionopedia.info) thanks

CustomNavBlocks and DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)
I'm using CustomNavBlocks along with DPL, and I've noticed that after some time the sidebar doesn't load custom blocks' content. The problem always disappeared when I purged cache of all custom blocks, so I decided to automatize this task, and done this little script: purgeSidebar.php. I put it in maintenance/ directory and let it run every day via cron. No more problems with disappearing blocks. Hope it will be useful for anybody. P.S. I'm not sure whether that is my cache config, or the DPL is screwing up, all I know is that purging blocks helps, so I made this script. Holek 23:08, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

External Link in new Tab / Window
I've tried using several solutions for having specific external links and sidebar external links open in a new tab, including these: and this on my normal pages: Neither worked for me, but I'm using CustomNavBlocks, so my problem might really be that Common.js contents don't apply Mediawiki namespace pages. Have any of you CustomNavBlock users solved this problem? Thanks. --Skew 17:34, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * http://old.nabble.com/"Category:-Noindexed-pages"-puzzle-to30698862.html#a30863268
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JQuery_snippets#External_links_in_Sidebar_in_new_window
 * http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Popup_links_in_MediaWiki_to_new_window