Hi all, (Please be gentle; this is my first post to this list, and I've only been running dokuwiki for all of 2 days.) I'm using starter template because - well, it's good for beginners. It's working wonderfully. But I really want to be able to alter the contents of the sidebar in the starter template. Starter seems to include only the sidebar in the root namespace. First, I tried using the include plugin to include .:sidebar, so that no matter what namespace I was in, the local sidebar would load. I was hoping that when the include was processed, the current namespace would have been the one of the page. However, it didn't seem to be that, because the local sidebar would never show up. So I came up with a little hack that seems to work. I changed the code in starter's main.php so that it loads the local sidebar rather than the one in the root namespace. Then, if I want to include other sidebars, I can refer to them explicitly (e.g. ":sidebar" to include the root sidebar). It seems to work well, and I wanted to share the tweak, because I didn't find evidence of it elsewhere on the web. Find this code in starter's main.php: <!-- ********** ASIDE ********** --> <div id="dokuwiki__aside"><div class="pad include"> <?php tpl_include_page(tpl_getConf('sidebarID')) /* includes the given wiki page */ ?> And change it to this: <!-- ********** ASIDE ********** --> <div id="dokuwiki__aside"><div class="pad include"> <?php tpl_include_page ( getNS(cleanID(getID())) . ":" . tpl_getConf('sidebarID')) /* includes the sidebarID page from the namespace. */ ?> Comments/suggestions are welcome. Thanks for a great wiki! Fil Salustri -- \V/_ Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: salustri@xxxxxxxxxx http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/ -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://www.dokuwiki.org/mailinglist