What is the left menu in VK. How to add a group to the left menu in VK

If you are subscribed to a large number of VKontakte groups, then you may find the “bookmarks” function useful, which allows you to separate the communities that interest you most in order to quickly find them. To use this feature, you must first share your bookmarks. To do this, go to the page settings, which are located in the menu under the small avatar in the right top corner. Here you need to click on the “customize the display of menu items” tab.

Make sure that in this section you have a checkmark under the “bookmarks” item. Then you can click on the “save” tab. This item will appear in your sections on the right side of the page.

Now you can go to any group you want to bookmark. To do this, under the main avatar, click next to the “you are in a group” tab on three horizontal dots. One of the options that will be available to you is “add to bookmarks”. Here you can also remove the group from bookmarks.

Now you need to go to the “bookmarks” section, which is located on the right side of the page, and select the “links” subsection there. All the groups that you have bookmarked will be displayed here.

In addition, if you are a group administrator, you can add your group to the sections on the right side of the page. To do this, go to the group, and click on the tab that has three horizontal dots, and select “add to” there. left menu" As an owner, this will make it easier to quickly move into your group. If you are not a community admin, this function will be missing.

Good afternoon everyone. It's time to talk about managing various actions on our page in social network. So, in this short article we will look at different types of VKontakte menus and see how you manage your VK page through them.

? If you trust Wikipedia, it gives the following definition. This is an interface element that allows you to select one of several listed program options (in our case, the VKontakte website). In modern operating systems the menu is the most important element GUI user.

Same thing in VK. Using the menu, you can quickly navigate through sections of the site, go to page settings, quickly perform various actions, such as searching, sorting, etc. Let's look at what types of menus exist and why each of them is needed.

Three types of VKontakte menu

• settings menu;
• main side;
• menu of sections or pages of VKontakte;

Each of them is responsible either for certain settings or for certain actions. With their help, you can configure your profile or individual actions, as well as simply navigate through sections.

Page settings menu

Access to it is in the upper right part of the page - where the miniature of our avatar is located. To activate, you just need to click on the thumbnail and a drop-down list will open.

What can you do here? do or change? In the “Edit” section you can fill in or. In the “Settings” section you can configure parameters such as, etc. If you suddenly have any questions about the site, go to the “Help” section, select the desired section and read the information. To quickly find the answer you need, use the search in the help sections.

The last item “Exit” allows you to finish current session. How to leave VKontakte on various devices, described.

All user page settings and profile information are configured through this menu. As a rule, all these actions are performed when. If you have just recently created a page on VK, then we advise you to set up and fill out your profile, and at the same time understand all the sections of this menu (see the articles linked above).

Main menu. VKontakte pages and access to them.

The side menu is the basis of work and navigation on the site. All the main VKontakte pages are collected here. let's consider full list sections and find out who is responsible for what.

• Games. The name speaks for itself. All games of the VKontakte social network are located here, and the latest games that you and your friends played (and what they achieved in these games) are also displayed;
• Goods. Here is a list of all products that are sold on the social network. You can use the search to find required product, and you can also add your own product.

Last two sections - “Bookmarks” And "Documentation" disabled by default. In a nutshell... Bookmarks displays photos, videos, products or news that you like (and like). You can also add interesting people or interesting links to bookmarks so that you can quickly find them later. “Documents” displays all attachments that you sent in messages or any documents that you uploaded to the site. As a rule, most users do not particularly need these sections, so they are not initially displayed by default, but you can always add them there if you wish. Below we'll talk about how to add or remove sections from the side menu.

Menu of “VK” pages.

The pages menu (or auxiliary) is available for such sections as “News”, “Messages”, “Friends”, “Groups”, “Products”, “Bookmarks” and “Documents”. It is located in the upper right corner and consists of several points. It was created to carry out certain operations on the page, sort data, manage advanced search, etc. Let's look at an example of a secondary menu for the “News” page. This is what it looks like:

For example, with it you can sort news and display only new photos or videos, news from friends or communities, and also look at comments under the media files you like. Here you can also see recommended news, find the news you need from a huge list, and see updates from your friends and communities. We will look at this menu in more detail in the article about.

As we can see, the page menu is a very convenient tool for sorting or searching for a specific section. With its help, you can flexibly sort events that have happened in the life of a social network or almost instantly find the necessary news using an advanced search.

Let's take a look at the secondary menu on the Friends page. It looks like this:

As we can see, here you can also sort flexibly - show all friends, or only new ones. You can view friend requests, and using the “ Phone book” you can display a list of your friends’ contacts (phone or Skype). In the “Friend Lists” section, you can sort your friends by the categories in which you placed them (relatives, best friends, colleagues, etc.), and also through the “Search” section you can find friends using an advanced search with many different parameters .

As we can see, the auxiliary menu is a powerful sorting and searching tool. In the following articles, when we consider each VKontakte page separately, we will study each menu in depth and analyze in detail what each item is responsible for.

How to make a “VKontakte” menu

You can add or exclude some items from the main side menu. It should be remembered that there are sections that cannot be removed from there. These include sections:

• My page;
• News;
• Messages;
• Friends

All other items can be added to or removed from the main menu at your discretion. This is done simply. Go to the settings menu, “Settings”, “General” tab.

Next we go to the item settings window. Here we can check the boxes next to the items we want to display. When the required sections are selected, all that remains is to click the “Save” button. As we have already said, the first four points are mandatory and cannot be disabled.

That's all. Now you can go to the main page and see the updated menu. As you can see, there is nothing complicated. This concludes our article.

Less than a quarter of respondents call United Russia (23%) the representative of their interests, followed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (11%), LDPR (10%) and A Just Russia (4%).

Parties, according to citizens, primarily defend the interests of the oligarchs (28% of respondents think so), the authorities (17%), and their leaders (12%). And only 10% of Russians see them as defenders of the interests of individual social groups, another 15% - from different social groups depending on the party. At the same time, political forces mainly successfully solve two problems - preparing new laws (50% think so) and participating in elections (48%), but protecting the interests of citizens in controversial situations with authorities (32%), business structures (28%) and providing targeted assistance to those in need (25%) they are worse off, respondents believe.

The Defender Party and the Left Turn

Research shows high request to the left turn in politics - 41% of respondents support such ideals (up to two answers could be selected in the survey). When asked about expectations from the ideology of a hypothetical new party, 22% of respondents named support for a socially oriented state (high taxes and level of social protection), 19% - a left socialist party (support for workers and nationalization of wealth).

Liberal market ideals are supported by 34% (17% for a party in support of small business and another 17% for a liberal party with the ideology of protecting freedom of speech and choice).

The patriotic and conservative platforms were supported by 28% in total (protection of the country’s interests in the external arena and traditional values ​​are interesting to 18 and 10% of respondents, respectively).

The basic value expectations from the program of the new party for the majority are rather the well-being within the country and a decent standard of living for ordinary citizens (81%), rather than maintaining the country’s authority in the world (15%).

Respondents are primarily concerned with creating conditions for economic development (66%), rather than preserving the state structure (20%), promoting the country’s integration into the international community (62%), rather than supporting isolation from outside world (21%).

The respondents were divided approximately in half in their preferences between liberal and conservative values. For 51%, it is more important to protect the rights and freedoms of citizens rather than traditional values ​​and the institution of family (42%). Ideological party expectations are related to age. The older the respondents, the lower the demand for liberal ideas (32% of respondents under 25 and only 11% in the group over 60 say there is a lack of parties that defend freedom of speech).

The ideal party for many respondents should fight for an increase in payments, pensions, benefits (32%), against corruption (29%) and for justice (27%). Also popular are requests to control price increases (22%) and speak out in defense of the poor (21%). Other distinctive features of the desired party are dialogue with the population (34%) and accountability to the people (32%), nomination in elections ordinary people(21%) and the creation of the party itself on the initiative of ordinary people (20%), the fight against officials (17%) and the purity of the ranks - the absence of oligarchs and officials among its supporters (15%).

“An expressed public demand for a defender party declaring a fairly populist set of promises, with effective information support and a decrease in trust in the party in power against the backdrop of an economic recession, can bring such a party structure to the level of significant competitors.” United Russia", the researchers conclude.

Leftist ideas have become the norm for public consciousness, says political scientist Nikolai Mironov. According to him, the current political system was stable while it was “mimicking” itself as socially oriented, but now there is a crisis of confidence in this system on the part of Russians. “People are fighting for social guarantees, not for human rights, and therefore only those systems that declare social norms will survive,” the expert believes. “This was the reason for the long stability of the Soviet system.”

Hi all! So, instructions on how to make a menu in new version quickly and, most importantly, without errors in the code. By following the instructions exactly, you can make the menu yourself, quickly and correctly! Let's get started ;)
1. open the menu image in Photoshop or any graphics editor.

2. Check the size of the picture and if it is more than 600 pixels in width, change the size to 600, the height of the picture will change proportionally, we don’t set it manually!

3.Select the “cutting” tool and cut our picture into buttons.

4.Save the image for WEB

This completes the work in Photoshop, let's move on to our group.

5. Turn on the MATERIALS group settings, set it to Restricted and click SAVE.

6. Go to the main page, “latest news” tab, click “edit”.

7. We went to the Wiki editor, now the fun part) Change the name “latest news” to “menu” or any other and click the camera icon, add all the chopped pieces from the folder where we saved them.

If instead of code you see pictures immediately after entering the wiki editor, switch the wiki markup mode!

Now we see the code for our menu, but it needs a little modification to remove the spaces between the pictures. Now our code looks like this:
[-][-][-][-][-]

and by clicking “preview” we see that the pictures are not in their places and there are white stripes (spaces) between them

8. Correcting the code:
By default VK sets maximum size The width of the images is 400px, the first button is 600px, we change the size of the first button 400x89px to 600px, we do not specify the height. We also add a nopadding tag to each line separated by a semicolon.
Attention! DO NOT PRESS ENTER after lines of code if you want to have two buttons side by side on the same menu line. The editor himself will move to a new line what doesn’t fit!

Code after editing:
[-][-][-][-][-]

Now, by clicking “preview” we see that everything has fallen into place:

We add links to each button in the code; for example, I make the first button non-clickable! Don't forget to remove the space between | And ].

[-][-][-][-][-]

9. making sure that everything is correct, click “save” and return to the page, please note that in the new version there is no “return to page” button, so just click the page name at the top

Hello! I am Adel Davletshin, head of SMM projects at the FriendMedia bureau

Personal messages from the community

Surely everyone has already seen the “Write a message” button and knows about community messages. This function allows you to set up feedback with the community administration. While administrators might not notice a comment under a news story a month ago or in one of a dozen discussions, it’s hard not to notice a +1 in community messages.

To start using this feature, you must enable it. The settings for this section are located in the “messages” tab in community management.

It's cool that you can write a greeting message. You can also add a group to the left menu of the social network, where +1 will appear opposite the community when you receive a new message to the group.

Description, info

Tabs with information about the community and wiki pages are now always visible, even if the news is pinned in the group. Therefore, it is important to complete the description and wiki section so that followers can understand the benefits of the group. It will be sad if someone wants to read the description of the group, but there is emptiness there.

The section that we call “articles” can be called anything you like. We go to this section, click “edit” and write any suitable name for the content. This could be advice, interesting news, menus or articles from experts.

We have already written tips for writing a group description in this article:

Wiki menu

The functionality and benefits of the wiki menu have not changed in any way. But we want to remind you of the importance of having a menu to help subscribers navigate the group. If you design the menu in the style of the community cover, it will be absolutely beautiful :)

You can learn how to work with wiki markup here.

Hello, friends!

VK settings will help you make work and communication on the social network easier and more enjoyable for you and your subscribers.

Why do I think that you need to take a responsible approach to filling out your VKontakte page profile? And why bother setting it up at all?

For example, if you are applying for a job or are a freelancer, your potential employers will evaluate your adequacy, including through your personal pages on social networks.

Let's look at the settings in VK and find out where to find them and how to configure them various parameters, how to change the privacy settings on your page. The network developers tried to make the design as clear as possible and exclude any hidden settings.

In order for network users to uniquely identify you, let's start filling out your profile by setting a photo. She will also serve as a kind of avatar. To do this, after entering the page, click on the “Insert photo” field.

Then click the “Select file” button.

Select the photo you want to use for your page.

You can also select an area and it will be shown on the page if you don’t like the entire photo.

This completes the installation of the avatar.

Personal information

IN previous versions On VKontakte, the “My Settings” item has disappeared from its usual place.

Now, to enter these VK settings, you need to go to the upper right corner open page Click on the field with your name, photo (if you previously installed it) and the down arrow.

In the drop-down menu, you select the “Edit” item and get access to sub-items that you can fill out and change if necessary.

You can also change information about yourself by clicking on the “Edit” button located under the main photo or by opening detailed information and moving the cursor to the block of interest, where the correction function will appear.

Basics

The “Interests” item allows you to talk about your preferences: from your favorite music, books, quotes, games to activities in public organizations.

Education

Everything here is extremely clear and precise - you need to indicate the country, city, educational institution where you received your education. There are two tabs: with secondary and higher education.

The item resembles a work book. Place of work, start year, end year, country, city.

Military service

Those liable for military service can indicate the country, unit and years of service.

Life position

The final settings item prompts you to specify additional information about the account owner:

• attitude towards smoking, alcohol;
• political and religious views;
• What do you consider to be the most important thing in people and life?

VK page settings

In order to configure the settings of the VK page, you must also click on the field with your name, photo and down arrow in the upper right corner.

In the drop-down menu we select “Settings”. It can be immediately noted that the section contains a sufficient number of options so that each user can adapt the page parameters to suit themselves. Advanced VK settings allow everyone to make their social network account comfortable and secure.

General

Here you can make changes to the display of menu items on the left. However, you cannot change some of them, such as “My Page”, “News”, “Messages” and “Friends”.

The page is customizable in terms of displaying and commenting on posts, automatically playing videos and GIF animations, hiding the gift block and tagging friends in photos.

The “Accessibility” item was created for people with disabilities who use a speech synthesizer for some account controls.

An interesting option is to change the short page address from a digital one to a more convenient and memorable one.

Safety

The option has an archive of activities and protects the page from hacking using an SMS code, a mobile application for generating codes, or a pre-printed list.

Privacy

Allows you to increase the confidentiality of the posted data, limit the circle of people who can find out information about you (list of friends, photos, list of groups, addresses, gifts, etc.) Since this section is important, let’s consider it in more detail.

Privacy contains subsections:

• my page,
• entries on the page,
• contact me,
• other.

By default, VKontakte sets general access settings, when information, photos, groups, etc. are visible to all users. However, at your discretion, you can restrict access by clicking on the “All users” line and selecting the option you need from the drop-down list. For example – “Only friends”, “Only me”, “Everything except...”, etc.

The remaining subsections are configured in the same way.

At the very end of the “Other” section, you can see how your account will look for a third-party user after all the privacy settings you have made.

Alerts

This section regulates notifications on the site, feedback, and events. You can choose the options that are important to you or completely turn off notifications.

When you click on the word “All” you can choose: “Disabled”, “Everyone” or leave “Important only”.

You can also configure alerts on your phone here, which will be sent via SMS notifications or email.

In addition to selecting the “Alerts” item in the settings menu, there is another way to quickly get to setting up alerts. Click on the bell image on the horizontal bar at the top of the site, where all notifications are now displayed. Under the bell it says “Notifications”, and to the right - “Settings”.

Black list

The section where you create a list of people with whom you would not like to communicate. Those on this list will not be able to message you, comment or view your page.

Choose who you want to block.

Application Settings

Everything is simple here - the sites and applications you have connected are displayed, but be careful, since each application has access to both your general (name, date of birth, etc.) and personal information.

Mobile services

This option allows you to receive, respond to personal messages and post posts on your wall via SMS. The service is paid. The tariffs of the main operators are given: Megafon, MTS, Tele2.

Payments and transfers

A section that allows you to connect additional paid features of VKontakte for conventional units - votes. This is an analogue of electronic money. You can use them to purchase a gift, stickers, or buy something in the game. To use, you must accept the terms of the license agreement. Refunds are not possible.

Conclusion

Now you know where the VK settings are and where to find the right section to make the necessary changes.

Continuing the topic, I suggest you read articles about setting up communities and doing the right thing.

For some time now, VKontakte has the ability to add your own groups to the left menu. This is done, among other things, so that you can instantly receive notifications of new messages. Today we will show you how to add a group to the menu for a new design.

Everything is actually very simple. Hover your mouse over any menu item to display a gear icon. Click on it.

A small window will appear in front of you with several sections, including “General”, “Communities”, Games and Applications” (the latter may not be there if you do not have your own groups or added applications). You need to select the “Communities” section, in which you will see a list of groups. Select a group and put a checkmark next to it. In our case, there is only one group, so there is no choice. But if you have several groups, you can check the box for all communities.

Now we return to our page or simply open VK and look in the left menu, where we see a quick link for the group.

If you add several groups to the menu, then the number of links will be proportional to the number of communities. That's all.

Social network VKontakte. Once, writing an article about that, he noted that one of the advantages or advantages is that, if desired, a person can freely remove himself from the social network. And here’s another plus regarding the functionality of the social network - the ability to create a VKontakte menu for yourself, located on the left panel. Because, I am sure that there are sections of the menu that the user does not need.

In the same editable menu, there are My settings. Click My settings. By default, you end up in the General tab. The heading Additional Services appears in front of you, you see a list of possible menus. If you noticed, there are marks next to each line. Now, by checking these boxes, you will add a menu item to the left panel, but if you uncheck the box, the line from the menu will disappear. It’s true that you won’t be able to remove my friends, my photographs and my videos, although theoretically there is such a possibility, but practically not. That's how it was for me. But I think that there are no such people who do not use the menu items my friends, my photographs and my videos.

So edit the menu to suit you. Good luck!

If you can't make a menu

It was not possible to make a VKontakte menu using these instructions, write to us by clicking Ask a Question. Write down your problem and the steps you took. We will answer personally.

To the question “how to create a menu for a VKontakte group” there are three main answer options: order from a specialist, create using an online designer, or tinker, delve into some of the intricacies of the issue and do everything yourself.

In this article we will look at all three options one by one. By the way, if you still doubt the need for a menu for your group or public, then be sure to read.

So here are three ways to create a menu:

Each of them, of course, has its own advantages and disadvantages. Below we will talk about the first two in a little more detail. And for those who still decide to take the third path and do everything themselves, we have written a detailed guide (instructions).

By the way, for those who prefer to receive information through videos rather than read long texts, is there a video:

Path #1. Order menu creation from a specialist designer

The advantages of this method are relative speed and minimal participation on your part. Cons - the most high price and a chance to get a beautiful, but incorrect menu (we have prepared about the main mistakes when creating a menu). In addition, you still need to find a performer. Here we can recommend looking for it on the kwork.ru service, in the “Design of groups in social networks” section.

Path #2. Using the online constructor

Here, of course, we will recommend our designer, whose website you are currently on. You can try it for free. Payment is made only if the result suits you and you decide to upload the resulting menu to your group. The advantages of this route are that it is the fastest. In addition, if necessary, you can always quickly edit and reload your menu for half the cost of creation. This is more convenient than searching for a designer every time you need, for example, to add or remove an item from a menu. The disadvantages of this method are that you will have to work quite a bit on your own.

Path #3. Do it all yourself

The advantages of this path are obvious: it is free, and you acquire new skills. The disadvantages are: you need some skills and quite a lot of time (for the first time). Here's what you need:

• Be able to use it confidently graphic editor. For example, PhotoShop. When making a menu, you will first need to make an image of the correct dimensions (down to the pixel, no “about”!), and then cut it correctly (break it into fragments)
• Be able to understand instructions and read them carefully
• Don’t give up and don’t despair if something doesn’t work out the first time

If you think you can handle all this, then let's get started.

Step #0. General information about how the VK group menus are structured

The menu for the group is made from wiki pages, the creation of which is supported by VK. Wiki pages are special pages that can only be created in public pages. They differ from regular posts in that they can use so-called wiki markup. This markup is special code, which is converted into additional formatting objects. To make it clearer, let us explain. For example, in regular posts you can use only plain text, but wiki markup allows you to highlight parts of the text in bold or italics. That is, she enters additional features registration In particular, the ability to post images, when clicked on, the user will be redirected to a link. It is these additional formatting options that are used to create the VK public menu. We will tell you exactly how to do this below.

Step 1. Preparatory stage

If you have an existing group, we recommend creating a new one. For testing and experiments. Otherwise, during the learning process, you risk inundating your subscribers with strange and unnecessary updates.

So you've created new group. Let's now find out the identifier (ID) of your group. The group ID is its unique VKontakte number. Go to your group and click on “Community Posts” (if there are no posts in the group, then “No Posts” will appear instead of “Community Posts”). In You will go to new page with an address like this:

https://vk.com/wall- XXX?own=1

Instead of XXX you will have a set of numbers (and only numbers!). This is your community ID. For example, in our test group this is 154457305.

Now let's create a new wiki page in the group. To do this, we will create a link like this:

http://vk.com/pages?oid=- group_id&p= Page_name

http://vk.com/pages?oid=- 154457305 &p= Menu

Open the resulting link in your browser (copy it into the address bar of your browser and go to the address). That's it, you have created a wiki page called “Menu” (if, of course, you specified “Menu” as the page name in the link). You should see text like this: “The Menu page is empty. Fill it with content." In the upper right corner there is a pencil icon (). Click on it to go to editing the page.

The VK wiki page editor has two modes: graphic and markup mode. Modes are switched using the button in the upper right part of the editor (). When the button is highlighted in blue, it means that markup mode is enabled. The visual editing mode is more convenient, because allows you to do without knowledge of wiki markup syntax, but its functionality is extremely limited: you can only do the simplest things in it. Basically you will have to deal with markup mode.

Notice two things. Firstly, to the left of the button for switching editing modes there is a call button reference information according to wiki markup (). A very useful thing, especially for beginners. The second point you need to pay attention to is the address of the wiki page. You will see something like this in the address bar of your browser:

http://vk.com/page-group_id _XXX?act=edit§ion=edit

Part of the address before the "?" - this is the address of your wiki page. Write it down somewhere: in VK there is no way to see a list of your wiki pages and links to them. To go to the one you need, you need to know its address or use the link to create a wiki page again. Using last method keep in mind that pages, if they already exist, are not recreated.

Step #2. Making a simple menu for a VKontakte group

So, we have created a wiki page “Menu”. Go to the editor's markup mode and add the following code:

Click on the “Preview” button, which is located at the bottom of the editor. You should see a list of three links. The first two are external and lead to the main pages of Yandex and Google, respectively. The third link is internal. It leads to a public VK with ID “1” (this is the official VK group for developers). If your preview displays your code, and not links (which you can click on) - it means you entered the code in visual editing mode, and not in markup mode. Be careful!

Please note that external links in the VK wiki code are formatted with single brackets, and internal links with double brackets. Wherein internal links VK are indicated not as the usual website address, but as a pointer to a particular VK object. For example, a pointer to a group has the following form:

club group_id

On VKontakte there are pointers not only to groups, but also to individual photographs, posts, wiki pages, user pages, audio recordings, etc. Each index has its own recording form. We'll use some of them later and look at them in more detail.

Be sure to save the page. Basically, we've just created a very basic navigation page. Which is nothing more than the simplest menu for VKontakte group. Of course, this is not a graphical menu yet, but even it can cope with the main task of the menu - quickly direct users to the desired public location. We'll look at how to make a graphical menu a little later.

Now let's figure out how and where you can use wiki pages.

Step #3. Where can I post VKontakte wiki pages?

There are two main places: you can create a post with a link to the wiki page or post it in the “Materials” section of your community.

Let's start with the first option. Start adding new entry on your group wall. First, attach any photo to it. It is better to take a fairly large photo whose width is greater than its height. Then paste into the text the record being created a link to the wiki page you created with a simple menu. This is what we asked you to write down a little earlier. Let us remind you that the link looks like this ( you will have different numbers):

http://vk.com/page-121237693_72827423

Now delete text links from the input field. The link itself under the photo will not disappear. But if you leave the link address in the text field, it will appear as text in the post. Publish the post, reload the browser page with the main page of your group and pin the created post. Reload the page again. As a result of these manipulations, you should get something like this:

Click on the photo in the pinned post: your wiki page should appear with a simple group menu.

So, we learned that wiki pages can be attached to posts. In particular - to the assigned post. The second place where you can use wiki markup is the “Materials” section.

Go to the community settings and find there managing community sections (services). Mark "Materials" as "Restricted". A new item will now appear at the top of your community's home page. It is located to the right of the “Information” item. When you first turn on materials in a group, this item is called “Latest News” by default. This is what it looks like:

Go to this new item. Click on the “Edit” checkbox. As a result, you will find yourself in the wiki page editor you are already familiar with. The only difference is that there is an input field for the page name. Change it from "Latest News" to "Menu2". IN markup editing mode enter the following code:

"""Menu option for the "Materials" section"""


[]

Make a preview (links already familiar to us should appear) and save the page. Essentially, this page is the main (root) wiki page of your group. True, there is no special practical meaning in this difference from other wiki pages.

Go to home page your group, reboot it and see what happens. We recommend viewing your group from a mobile browser and from the VK application. You will notice that the arrangement of elements and the operating logic are slightly different everywhere. You need to have a good understanding of what belongs to what and where it is shown.

We learned that the menu can be placed in two places. It is preferable to make it both as a pinned post and in the “Materials” section. Remember two things:

• The pinned post will be seen by 98% of your visitors, and only 25-40% of the most curious will get to the materials section, as well as loyal old users of your group who know that there is something useful there.
• A pinned entry with a picture to open the menu can be supplemented with text. This way you won't lose this pinned post feature. But you shouldn’t overdo it either: the more text, the lower the link to open your menu will be.

Wiki markup is not the most powerful tool and not the most convenient. Its functionality is very limited. In addition, it was developed at the dawn of the development of VKontakte and exclusively for its browser version on desktop computers and laptops. Therefore, its work in the application and on mobile devices best described by the expression “as God puts it on your soul.” Unfortunately, there is nothing better in VK yet.

By the way. You can link from one wiki page to another. It works something like this: the user opens (for example, using a link image in a post) the first wiki page. And it contains links to other wiki pages. Clicking on these links will open the corresponding wiki page. In this way you can create quite complex and multi-level menus and, for example, instructions. However, we do not advise you to get too carried away with this unnecessarily.

Step #4. How to make a menu in a VKontakte group. Graphic

So, the basic principles have been mastered. Let's move on to designing a graphical menu. Let’s immediately say that we will create a fairly simple menu: a vertical row of buttons with links. But don’t rush to say “no, I wanted a super complex menu” and close this guide. Now we will explain why.

Firstly, moving from simple to complex is usually the most effective way to master new knowledge. By learning how to make a relatively simple menu, you will learn 90% of the techniques for creating menus for VK groups.

And secondly, as we have already said, VK wiki markup was introduced at a time when mobile applications Few people have even heard of it. Our conditionally “simple” menu will work as correctly and efficiently as possible everywhere: in the browser version of VK, in mobile browsers and finally in the application. Many “complex” menus cannot boast of this. Moreover, in most cases, a “simple” menu will work better than a “complex” one, which “falls apart” when viewed in the official VKontakte application. Most often, it is better to focus on this menu option. Yes, there are some pretty ornate menu implementations. You can experiment with them too. But our experience says that they will add virtually no real benefit - conversions, purchases and reputation. But there may well be problems.

Our test menu will look like this:

Just two buttons. The first will lead to the main page of Yandex, and the second will lead to the VK group “VKontakte Team”.

The vertical graphic menu in VK is an image cut into strips. These stripes are placed with markings one below the other on the wiki page. Some of these "lanes" are assigned links. When you click on such a link image, you actually follow this link. One page is one link. Some bands (for example, intermediate ones, which are located between points), on the contrary, are assigned the absence of a link. Such stripes become “unclickable”.

Making a vertical graphic menu for a VK group comes down to the following sequence of actions:

• The first thing you need to do is draw a menu. The width must be strictly 600px(pixels). We recommend making the menu no more than 900px in height. The result is best saved in PNG format, as a last resort - JPG. Use drawing tools that are familiar and convenient to you (such as Photoshop or GIMP). The result here depends 95% on your creative and technical skills. Even if you don’t know how to use graphic editors at all, don’t despair. The skills that will be sufficient can be acquired in a maximum of a couple of hours. There is a huge amount of reference and educational information on the Internet. In addition, the ability to use a graphic editor at least a little is very, very useful for public administrators. You won't waste your time.
• Next, the picture with the menu is cut into horizontal stripes. You can do this in any way convenient for you: from the familiar Photoshop to various online services. If you have no idea how to do this, just ask your favorite search engine. We will not describe in detail the technical part of the cutting process: there are dozens of methods, some are suitable for some users, but not for others. When cutting, you must follow one simple rule: the height of one strip should not be less than 60px. Otherwise, you may have problems with displaying the menu in the application and in mobile browsers: so-called. "white stripes" between images.
• The cut "strips" are uploaded to the group album or album on the group admin page. We recommend the second option. In any case, an album with cut-out parts of the menu should be V open access . Otherwise, those users for whom album images are not available will not see your menu!
• Wiki markup code is compiled and inserted into the desired wiki page.
• The group contains a pinned post with an image link to a wiki page with a menu. We wrote in detail above about how such a post is made. In addition, the code (with minor changes) can be added to the root wiki page (the item to the right of the “Information” item appears when the “Materials” section is enabled. For more details, see above).

Now let’s look at loading parts of the menu and wiki code in more detail. We have prepared for you. It has two directories: “1” and “2”. The first contains parts of the most primitive and simple option cuts for our menu - into two parts. Download the archive, upload images (1.png and 2.png) from directory “1” to new album(on your page or in a group).

We have two “strips”: the top (with the “Yandex” button) and the bottom (with the “VK Team” button). Both will be link images. In the wiki markup this is done with code like this:

"LINK"- this is the target link. For example, https://yandex.ru/. In addition to the usual external links can be an indication of a VKontakte object: post, user page or group. For example, so that after clicking a button there is a transition to the “VKontakte Team” community, you can specify both its address (https://vk.com/team) and a pointer to it (club22822305). In principle, there will be no difference. External links (those that do not lead to VK resources) we we recommend reducing by using