Enabling Widgets / Shopping / Social Media links on the website

You can add the widgets to your website  via the DESIGN > Add Social Widgets option.

There are various places throughout the template you can add the widgets, by selecting the required dropdown option.

Widgets available

There are Shopping related  widgets, Social / Add-this widgets, Search boxes and Breadcrumbs available. - See bottom of page for examples. 

How to enable a widget

Click the dropdown for the area you wish to set a widget and choose the required widget from the dropdown list. 

How to disable a widget

You can disable widget by changing the required dropdown to NONE.

Adding social media links as widgets

To add your social website links  to your website, make sure your usernames or social media page URL are entered in your global contact details under the Design tab.

Enabling social icons in the widgets area will then list the social icons you have added to your contact details.

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs are great options to assist your customers quickly navigate around your website and for SEO.

They can be added to any widget location, but the conventional location is under the heading.

There is the option to add a breadcrumb only, or breadcrumb and search box.

Advanced Options - Customising the breadcrumb format

When choosing to show breadcrumbs you can tweak the separator text and prefix for breadcrumbs. 

Reserved word "none"  will give you nothing, whereas, an empty box, will give the default > 

You are not limited to a single character when defining your separator

.Example of customised breadcrumb format below:

Search Widgets

Widget Examples

Examples of each widget below - these may look different depending on your template or settings.

Edit Custom Widget or as HTML

You can add your own widget code to an area. Edit Custom Widget will open TINYMCE editors for rich formatting or you can use the HTML button to paste in code.

Tuhipoka:

"Top of page" is unavailable in some templates. This option is only available in templates containing the [TOPTOYS] tag.

A bread crumb trail is a list of links that indicate how you might have got to the page you are in. It normally shows the quickest path from the home page. For example, a product page might have breadcrumb trail from home, to category, to sub category, to product.

A search box is hopefully self-explanatory, but it will only find content that has not been "hidden"

Social Media Icons and Social Media Links are links to the social networks you participate in, these can be added on your contact details page.

If your toy is left aligned or right aligned, you can usually use the custom widget button to insert another widget to the alternate side.

Some items are marked as legacy, or prefixed with an asterix. These widgets are for backward compatibility. However, using these widgets may cause your website to not be mobile responsive, or to share traffic data with third party social networks, and/or slow down your page load speed. Most users know how to share a page, and the historical use of widgets to prompt sharing is not encouraged as it once was.