Custom sidebar

[innosflew]

Setup

• Browsers and versions: Latest Opera/Opera Beta/Google Chrome
• MediaWiki version: 1.29
• Database version: MySQL 5.7.19
• PHP version: 7
• Pivot version: 1.0.5
• Extension version (if connected to the issue): CustomNavBlocks 2.2.2 (7235add)

Issue

For the normal Vector skin I used an extension called CustomNavBlocks to enable me to add custom items to my sidebar, such as custom templates, custom navigation bars, or widgets such as my Discord chat widget. But I noticed that CustomNavBlocks doesn't works for the Pivot skin. Is there a way for me to be able to add custom items to my Pivot sidebar?

[raulcpop]

You got the solution? I needed it...

[mbilsky]

I was able to make it work on my website MattBilsky.com by editing the Pivot.skin.php file.

at the very bottom, on a line before return; in the render sidebar function, you can add an echo() which will print out below the sidebar (you can see the links at the bottom on my site). I created a variable $variable_name = ' some
<more stuff and words';

then called it using echo($variable_name);

I'm not sure if this is the right way, but after a couple hours of searching around, it is the way that works for me