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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[Grimes]

Worked perfectly. Thank you, sir.

[natecoupons]

Originally Posted by tagline

I've an issue with my template that's not the default one. Some part of the template are missing... how to fix it?

I have the exact same issue. How is this fixed? I absolutely love this mod!

Example: forumhome: http://www.priusconnect.com

The style isn't saying as I move to forumdisplay: http://www.priusconnect.com/forumdis...UseCoupons-101

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by natecoupons

I have the exact same issue. How is this fixed? I absolutely love this mod!

Example: forumhome: http://www.priusconnect.com

The style isn't saying as I move to forumdisplay: http://www.priusconnect.com/forumdis...UseCoupons-101

Just to help debug this issue, add this line to your headinclude template and see if it helps:

{vb:cssfile tagcloud.css}

Let me know if it does.

[natecoupons]

I went ahead and did that, and it doesn't seem to have any affect. I put the line of code at the bottom of the template.

[BirdOPrey5]

OK, cancel that...

In your additional.css template find the code for:

#sidebar_home .blocksubhead

and add !important to the background:

background:url(images/styles/DeFraction/style/sidebarHeadBG.png) no-repeat top left !important;

Any change?

[natecoupons]

I did that also, and it doesn't seem to make a difference

#sidebar_home .blocksubhead {
background:url(images/styles/DeFraction/style/sidebarHeadBG.png) no-repeat top left !important;
height:18px;
width:315px;
padding:12px;
margin:0;
color:#000000;
font-size:15px;
text-transform:none;

[sonasinha]

First of all, thanks for this wonderful mode.
I'm facing a problem with it because of my mistake, when I installed it on vb 42.1 first time, it worked like charm on all the page with height modifications.

Because of some reason I deleted Disable Collapse of Built In Sidebar from plugin manager, then did uninstall it completely, since then, even after multiple times reinstalls, when ever I do enable any of the option at admincp, like Use Custom Sidebar Drop? and save that.

It gets completely disappeared even from activity stream page, not sure why ?? I love to have it working..

[sonasinha]

Originally Posted by sonasinha

First of all, thanks for this wonderful mode.
I'm facing a problem with it because of my mistake, when I installed it on vb 42.1 first time, it worked like charm on all the page with height modifications.

Because of some reason I deleted Disable Collapse of Built In Sidebar from plugin manager, then did uninstall it completely, since then, even after multiple times reinstalls, when ever I do enable any of the option at admincp, like Use Custom Sidebar Drop? and save that.

It gets completely disappeared even from activity stream page, not sure why ?? I love to have it working..

Solved.

[shellys]

Tried to install it on a travel Forum and all seems to work well except few URLs showing blank pages only in firefox after installation of this mode. As an example this url http://www.touristsboard.com/united-...to-travel.html shows blank in Firefox but loads good in IE and Chrome.

When i disable this plugin every thing start working well. Also i tried changing style to the default vb but the problem persisted.
Pls tell how to resolve this issue.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by natecoupons

I did that also, and it doesn't seem to make a difference

#sidebar_home .blocksubhead {
background:url(images/styles/DeFraction/style/sidebarHeadBG.png) no-repeat top left !important;
height:18px;
width:315px;
padding:12px;
margin:0;
color:#000000;
font-size:15px;
text-transform:none;

Haven't forgotten... still trying to figure this out.

Originally Posted by shellys

Tried to install it on a travel Forum and all seems to work well except few URLs showing blank pages only in firefox after installation of this mode. As an example this url http://www.touristsboard.com/united-...to-travel.html shows blank in Firefox but loads good in IE and Chrome.

When i disable this plugin every thing start working well. Also i tried changing style to the default vb but the problem persisted.
Pls tell how to resolve this issue.

The link works fine in Firefox and Waterfox for me. Did you try clearing your cache? Are you on the latest version?