Miscellaneous Hacks - Sidebar Anywhere (Formerly Sidebar for Activity Stream) by BOP5

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5
www.Qapla.com

Version 2.2.0

The new Activity Stream for VB 4.2.0 is very nice but it feels like it is missing something- and what it is missing is a sidebar. Ideally at some point VB will release a custom sidebar built just for the Activity Stream but until then this quick mod will let you use the built in forum sidebar on the Activity Stream.

As of version 2.0 besides just working on the Activity Stream the mod can now add a sidebar to ANY vBulletin page including forums, threads, groups, albums, who's online, forum leaders, and more. In fact you can easily add the sidebar even to custom pages from custom mods.

New Features

• Now works on ANY vBulletin Page (except blogs which have their own sidebar)
• Option to align sidebar with page content or top of page
• Option to Disable Sidebar Collapse Option (By Usergroup in 2.1.0)
• Collapsed sidebar state now "remembered" on different pages
• Option to enable Sidebar by Usergroup
• Option to disable Sidebar by Forum (if enabled for forums/threads)
• Option to disable Sidebar in specific styles
• Options to disable sidebars if mobile devices detected*

NOTE: To enable mobile device detection options you must install the Mobile Browser Detector mod.

Live Demo: Qapla.com Activity Stream

You can enable or disable the Sidebar Anywhere independently of the forum sidebar but they will both display the same content (blocks.)

NEW - If you need to have different blocks on different pages check out this add-on.

You must have at least 1 block setup and active for the sidebar to show.

Unlike most of my other mods this mod is enabled by default upon installation. Be default it is setup to show only on the Activity Stream and register.php pages.

I am aware there is already a mod out there "Everywhere Sidebar" by another coder. This is completely different code and I made this because my "Staff Online Sideblock" mod did not work on Sidebar Everywhere but it does work on this mod.

This mod requires at least VB 4.2.0 to work on the Activity Stream but should work on older VB 4.x.x versions on other pages.

Full view of admin cp options: http://www.qapla.com/mods/ss/sidebar...tings_full.jpg.

The old version Zip file Sidebar for Activity Stream by BOP5 v11.zip works only on the Activity Stream.

PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED WITH THIS MOD- THEY ANSWER MOST OF THE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE IT.

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[se7o]

I have problem

the original side bar in home page is in the right side

the sections side bar is in left

i want make all pages in right

see

http://www.ng3awya.com/forum.php



http://www.ng3awya.com/forum8.html

[BirdOPrey5]

Seems to be a bug because I didn't account for RTL languages on left/right positions.

Please go to the Admin CP -> Plugin Manager and edit the plugin: Sidebar Anywhere Edits

Find the line:

if ($vbulletin->options['sidebarposition'])

and change it to:

if (!$vbulletin->options['sidebarposition'])

(add the exclamation point)

and let me know if it works, please.

[sticky]

I think this is coded absolutely awesome and pretty badass the only problem is, why not work on the CMS page? It works everywhere else...

[BirdOPrey5]

It's just not a built in location because for the CMS people usually use CMS widgets in their own "sidebar" but if you add this code to the Custom Scripts... setting:

vbcms|vbcms_page

It will work on CMS pages.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

It's just not a built in location because for the CMS people usually use CMS widgets in their own "sidebar" but if you add this code to the Custom Scripts... setting:

vbcms|vbcms_page

It will work on CMS pages.

Perfect, going to try it now. Thanks!

[sticky]

Had to disable the mod as for whatever reason if enabled on forum pages when trying to edit and quick save it won't work. Have to click go advanced.

This bug needs to be fixed or it may be how it plays with another mod but either way it's a big problem toward using this.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by sticky

Had to disable the mod as for whatever reason if enabled on forum pages when trying to edit and quick save it won't work. Have to click go advanced.

This bug needs to be fixed or it may be how it plays with another mod but either way it's a big problem toward using this.

I'm not having that issue on my site with Chrome. What browser are you using?

And you are talking about editing posts on showthread, correct?

[se7o]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Seems to be a bug because I didn't account for RTL languages on left/right positions.

Please go to the Admin CP -> Plugin Manager and edit the plugin: Sidebar Anywhere Edits

Find the line:

if ($vbulletin->options['sidebarposition'])

and change it to:

if (!$vbulletin->options['sidebarposition'])

(add the exclamation point)

and let me know if it works, please.

it not work


(add the exclamation point)



i don't understand this point

[BirdOPrey5]

! = exclamation point, you need to add it to the code... Before the $.

[Azonaco]

Is there any way to get the sidebar to display below where a thread starts? Aligned with the first post would be perfect for our site.