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Add a Flickr Badge as a new portlet on your site

This how-to walks you through removing the security in Plinkit that prevents you from running scripts in your pages, and shows you how to use the code from a site like Flickr to insert HTML code into a new portlet on your site.

Add a site counter and other statistics to your Plinkit site

This How-to will get you all setup to install Google Analytics

Add Navigation Tabs to the top of your site

The Navigation Tabs were removed in the Illinois version of Plinkit to make the site more streamlined. However, some people would like them turned back on. So here are the procedures to accomplish that.

Adding RSS Feeds to Your Plinkit Site.

There are several RSS feeds built into the Plinkit template, but there are often times when a site wants to subscribe to a local RSS feed or change one the is currently there. This how-to will show you how to link to an RSS feed from your site, or create a side portlet of the feed.

Adding a Weather Portlet to your Plinkit Site

This how-to will walk you through adding a local weather portlet to your Plinkit site.

Change your site's Banner / Logo

How to change the logo or banner on your Plinkit site

Plinkit "Go Live" Checklist

A list of things a library should have done before taking their website live.

Remove Creation Date From Items in the News Portlet

Since news items do not have a date associated with them, the only date to show on the news portlet is the date that the news item was created. This causes confusion if you are announcing news for an upcoming event and the dates aren't the same. This How-To will walk you through changing the portlet to simply remove the date from the display.

Remove Events, News, Links (and anything else you want) from the Navigation Menu

Are you tired of seeing all the events and news items that you create show up in the navigation menu? Well here is a very short how-to to fix that permanently!

Removing Icons (Images) from Navigation Portal

Shows the steps to remove the icons (images) that appear in the Navigation Portal.

Remove random quotes from your Plinkit site

If you would like to remove the portlet with random quotes on the lower left side of your website, here's how!

Site ERROR - "HasSubTopics" - How to get rid of this error.

If you see this error on your website, this how-to will walk you through the steps to get it off for good.