New System Tokens

Among the improvements we have been making here at SimpleUpdates, we have added additional tokens for your use. We have had a series of suggestions for new tokens from the past SU Developers Conference, and we have put several of these ideas into place.

NAVIGATION LINKS
##navigation##

Our latest token for navigation is probably our most versatile. Built in a unordered list, the ##navigation## token allows significantly improved control over how your links are displayed using CSS styling . This token is capable of displaying your links either horizontally or vertically, and also enables easy styling of the dividers between each link.

SHARE THIS PAGE
##sharelinks##

This token allows you to freely place the “Email | Print | Post” links anywhere on your pages. In the sidebar, at the bottom of your content, or not at all; the choice is yours to make.

CHILD ARTICLES
##childarticles##

This token displays links to the child pages of the current page. Sound familiar? Though its functionality is the same as an older token, ##subarticles##, this new token displays the links in a unordered list. This allows for much more versatility and control through CSS styling.

SIBLING ARTICLES
##siblingarticles##

Similar to , this token displays links to all the articles that share the same parent as the current page. Confused? Excited? We hope for the latter, but here's a example just in case.

Say you have a page titled “Ice Cream.” You have created three child pages underneath your Ice Cream (parent) page: Rocky Road, Chunky Chocolate Cherry, and Butter Pecan (child pages). These three pages are all “siblings” of one another. When used on one of these child pages (we'll use Chunky Chocolate Cherry for this example) the token will display a list of links to the Rocky Road, Chunky Chocolate Cherry, and Butter Pecan pages. Also note that the link to your current page (Chunky Chocolate Cherry) has a special class of “siblingpages_current” so that it can be easily distinguished from the rest of the links.

BREAD CRUMB LINKS
##breadcrumbs##

This token will print the article titles as links from where you are back to the home page. This token allows you to place breadcrumbs anywhere on your template, rather than only at the top of the article page as before. As with all of our new tokens, this one is fully customizable with CSS formatting.

So here's a quick recap of each of our new tokens

##navigation## - A new and improved way to display your navigation links any

##sharelinks## - Allows you to display the “Email | Print | Post” links anywhere on your page

##childarticles## - Displays a list of links to all child pages of the current page

##siblingarticles## - Displays a list of links to all pages on the same hierarchical level as the current page

##breadcrumbs## - Displays the home page and parent articles as links for context navigation and history.

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