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Adding Sidebars to your Board

It's useful to be able to add a sidebar to your board, so that you have somewhere to put your links and various other items.  You can have the sidebar on the left or on the right or even on both sides.  Additionally, you might want to have a header on your board with the sidebar appearing below rather than alongside it.  The code for all these options is given below. 

The cell that actually contains the links can be used "as is", which is the simplest, but if you want to give some special formatting to that area, it's best to insert a whole new table into the cell.  If you decide you want to do it that way, create the table with the items in it separately and when it's finished, insert the whole lot into the cell.

"Bare Bones" Sidebar Codes

Go to your Admin Center >> Edit Board Template, for all of these. The cell width of "100" for the sidebar is just a suggestion - you can make this as wide as you wish. 

It's probably best to copy and paste the code given, to ensure that it's inserted correctly - it's easy to make a typing error otherwise.   In each case, copy the entire block of code - it has a border around it to make it easy to recognise - then replace the "Contents of left/right sidebar go in here " text with your actual links etc.

The html code for a simple link is as follows:

The "target="_blank" bit is used only if you want the link to open in a separate window.

Another good use of a sidebar is to show the last 5 posts made on your board - the code for that is as follows:

Left sidebar:

Put the following in your Header (after the opening body tag):

Put the following in your Footer (before the closing body tag):

Right sidebar:

Put the following in your Header (after the opening body tag):

Put the following in your Footer (before the closing body tag):

Left and right sidebars:

Put the following in your Header (after the opening body tag):

Put the following in your Footer (before the closing body tag):

Left sidebar with header:

Put the following in your Header (after the opening body tag):

Put the following in your Footer (before the closing body tag):

Right sidebar with header:

Put the following in your Header (after the opening body tag):

Put the following in your Footer (before the closing body tag):