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Is there a way to have subtopics? For example, if I have a topic News then could I have subtopics of Local and National?

Yes. You can achieve this with menu plugin or you can create it manually. This has been raised before, try searching the forum here.

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Geeklog Polish Support Team

oh, if only Gavin would release his awesome looking menu plugin (I don't think he has a name for it) that handles topics and subtopics beautifully!

Unfortunately there are many many unforeseen problems with it. Mainly due to my (maniacal) need to make it feature rich. Static pages were giving me a headache, but I think I have developed a good working solution. Also quite a bit of those "rich features" require 1.3.12 cvs to work (including the dynamic menu block), not that most of these features couldn't be done with 1.3.11 but it is so much easier to do with the new plugin api calls in cvs.

BTW I really dig your avatar Machinari (I thought I was hallucinating for a minute).

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Yes I am mental.

How do you do this manually?

Maybe the block menu would do for a start?
http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=8&showtopic=33175

Installing the block menu from the link you provided worked like a champ - after some tweaks.

First, I had to edit the code to reference

require_once($_CONF['path_html'].'lib-common.php');

The author assumed that everyone has a simple setup. This change was needed in

/plugins/blockmenu/functions.inc
/public_html/admin/plugins/blockmenu/index.php
/public_html/admin/plugins/blockmenu/install.php

I installed from scratch so if you're upgrading you may have to change it somewhere else.

The other problem I had was that I've manually put everything in the database. I assumed that I could enter the URL somewhere in geeklog but nothing I tried worked. Is there a way to maintain the following tables from within the block?

commonbible_gl_blockmenu_index
commonbible_gl_blockmenu_main

Even with my struggles and work arounds I'm thrilled to have the block menu! It does exactly what I wanted. To see it in action check out commonbible.com

I hope this helps the next guy!