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

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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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[rumas]

I had the same problem, try going to
admincp >Options > Forum Sidebar and Block Options > create Forum Blocks >Forum Blocks Manager

Click edit on any block don't change anything and just click save. It worked for me.

[gundamz]

install the xml on vb4.2.1 but the sidebar not showing up on search, forumdisplay..
could it be conflict with certain mod?

[motorhaven]

I found it can conflict with vB Optimise Pro. Make sure "(Pro) Cache Templates in File System" is turned off.

[masterme]

Installed on 4.2.2 and works perfect!

[Mark_Zuckerberg]

how to show staff online block plz guide

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by Mark_Zuckerberg

how to show staff online block plz guide

That is this mod, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=284617

[Mark_Zuckerberg]

well mate i have installed that mod which you have mentioned but still cant see the blok also enabled it in vb > options> settings> what i think is i cant find installing the sideblock where i can do this?

[ozzy47]

Read the install instructions that came with the sideblock mod.

[squidsk]

A suggestion for improvement, currently as far as I've been able to determine at any rate, if you have your own custom sideblock widget that uses its own templates the only way to cache those custom templates for the pages where this mod enables the sideblock to be shown on the selected pages is to manually cache them. My suggestion is to add a custom hook location to your code so that templates can be cached on the appropriate pages automatically.

In the plugin on the cache_template hook is where'd I'd recommend adding the hook at the comment location I've added.

global $sb_temps; 

if($sb_temps AND !in_array($GLOBALS['forumid'], explode(",", $vbulletin->options['bop5sbas_forums']))) 
{ 
   $cache[] = 'block_blogentries'; 
   $cache[] = 'block_cmsarticles'; 
   $cache[] = 'block_html'; 
   $cache[] = 'block_newposts'; 
   $cache[] = 'block_sgdiscussions'; 
   $cache[] = 'block_tagcloud'; 
   $cache[] = 'block_threads'; 

   //add hook location here
}

[Disco_Stu]

I must say, this is the best mod I've run across so far. I use it with a custom HTML block I wrote to house an interactive MP3 player GUI I created in Javascript.

I display it on the right side of my site on most pages and I also display a CMS multifunctional widget on the left side of each page so the site has two fully functional widgets displayed at the same time on each side of the pages.

Again, thanks for the mod it was exactly what I was looking for.