vBulletin Forum Sideblocks - Nexia's Forum Sidebar Everywhere

Will add the forumhome sidebar everywhere logically possible to show it, with choices of locations.

First Screenshots show how it is "before/after" on the calendar page, doing some esthetical changes... some templates are less obvious!

Third screeny is about the settings you can change to your wills.

I take requests if you want other templates to be available...

Actual Pages where the sidebar can be activated on release date, Mar 21th, 2012:

Forumhome (can even be deactivate and show sidebar elsewhere)
Main Albums Pages
Announcements
Calendar
FAQ
Forum Display
Main Groups Pages
Member List
Who's Online
Show Thread
Main Blog Pages

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# How To use Nexia's Forum Sidebar Everywhere:


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# Simple Installation:

1- upload via ftp the content of the /UPLOAD_THIS/ folder in your forum's base directory.

2- Import the Product file included in the /IMPORT_THIS/ folder.

3- AdminCP >> Settings >> Options >> Forum Sidebar and Block Options

Follow that path and change the list of pages you want the sidebar to show up.


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# Customization:

If you have customized templates on the pages affected by this engine, you will need to edit it's related template to make it fit your custom design. To do so, it's simple... to edit our version of SHOWTHREAD, find SHOWTHREAD_SIDEBAR and edit it accordingly.
*(you can also hire nexialys to do the job!)


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# What to Know:

This tool originally replace the pages you browse by pages that contain the sidebar you already have on Forum Home.

How it work is simple. Each page you see on your browser is made from a "template" containing the proper codes to display each elements you see in the page. For the default vBulletin, only the "Forum Home" page contain the codes to display a sidebar. But maybe you would like to see that sidebar in other pages where it would help the navigation of the visitors ?!

That's what this tool intend to do... add the sidebar in precise pages that deserve to. In the "Forum Sidebar and Block Options" page, you can now select what page will show the sidebar...

To make it more even, the FORUMHOME template was updated as well to look like all the others... as the sidebar is supposed to be similar everywhere.


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# Why not adding everything via plugin instead of switching templates?:

When we add that kind of content via plugin, we face the possibility to have a template that is incompatible with the hooks we need, or a style that we can not trust because written poorly.

We switch templates so your designer can edit the default templates we provide and make them better if necessary. It is tangible content, it requires less server process, and you can customize it for each style you have... the other technique does not comply with that option.

EDIT: update on april 10th, now deactivate automatically for Mobile styles... *(as requested hundreds of times! )
EDIT: update on april 11th, edited the product file to fit forumhome for mobiles, sorry!

EDIT: august 9th, 2012: version 4.2 is now supported - memberlist and other pages are now showing proper content... sorry for the late, summer vacations with 7 kids is a bit complicated to deal with!

[Gemma]

Any way to cache the block templates when they are appearing on pages other than FORUMHOME?

[laebshade]

Can you update this to show on Search results and with non-standard vBulletin pages that still use the vBulletin template, such as albumall.php from:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=237931

That is, give a text field where you can put in php script names for it to hook into.

[fishmaster]

Going to wait for some others to install and provide feedback, and work out any possible bugs.

Looks promising!

[fishmaster]

Installed and working great on latest VB Build and stock skin.

Running various plug-ins with no perceived issues.

Simple and smooth script that works without all the clutter in the admin CP.

What most site admins will want.

[fishmaster]

Noticed it does not pull the VB Gallery block over from the Forum Homepage.

Probably a good thing to cut down on page size through-out the forums.

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by Gemma

Any way to cache the block templates when they are appearing on pages other than FORUMHOME?

hum, i think i cached them, i'll check that...

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by laebshade

Can you update this to show on Search results and with non-standard vBulletin pages that still use the vBulletin template, such as albumall.php from:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=237931

That is, give a text field where you can put in php script names for it to hook into.

that is EXACTLY what is planned for non-standard pages...

for version 1.0.2... before that, i debug the absolute version!

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by fishmaster

Noticed it does not pull the VB Gallery block over from the Forum Homepage.

Probably a good thing to cut down on page size through-out the forums.

the vbGallery blocks and some other plugins are loading their widgets/blocks later in the process... i'll take a look at what we can fix with the coders of these tools...

this product try to load the latest moment possible to avoid that kind of situation, but i can't do all with a default install... when the guys think the product is interesting enough, they will surely try to make everything fit together... but it is new...

[vbenhancer]

on version 1.0.2, i will add the possibility to use the vbCMS widgets, if possible. i know we can transform them from widgets to sidebar blocks, but not sure it will work... rofl

[glen290]

Originally Posted by burlesque

Will this work with the block for DBTech's Forum Live Feed & User Wall? The 'Everywhere Sidebar' mod doesn't like this at all.

Working fine on my site with DBtechs Forum Live feed