[The Smoking Gun]

Hey all, I "tripped" over this, and found it to work excellent with 3.8.4 and since this thread's version appears to be abandoned despite the popularity (based on how often my thread subscription generates a new post email) I thought it would be nice to share it here for everyone else to get it is called Ultimate Side Columns and you can "html" any and all the content in these boxes, for which you can have up to 20 of, AND it integrates well with vB advanced CMPS!

Hope this helps some of you unable to tweak this one in to working as expected, but since this new one allows html in the boxes, you can pull from whatever sets of content you wish, such as latest threads/posts/ etc. mot popular threads, polls, and even externally produced widget scripts, and advertising...point is, they are very diverse in their usage, and you can pick and choose whichever set you want and any number of that set, and whether you want then displayed everywhere, nowhere, forum /cmps home, only, exclude from quick reply, or show only on show-thread forum-display, exclude from other mods or features such as calendar, or from profile and member pages.

Now don't hold me to this list exactly as I am doing this from memory since it has been a number of weeks since setting them on my site, but they should do whatever you need them to.

Hope this helps you all,

TSG!