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!

[DragStar]

Originally Posted by JackieChun

I'm not sure if I imported this right, but the options of different pages are not showing up for me. I uploaded the nex folder to the vbulletin directory and then imported product-nex_sidebar_everywhere_42 on the Products page in admincp. I created a random product name and ID, since it wasn't there by default.

I have the same problem, I uploaded all files and imported product-nex_sidebar_everywhere_42 on the Products page in admincp, but I don't have in the options menu the "Forum Sidebar and Block Options".
What could be the problem?

[ps2wiz]

Does this mod give the option to enable both left and right sidebars at the same time?

[pokusek]

Bug in vB 4.2.1: The new block type "Activity stream" works correctly only on the forum index, there are only activity date+time shown elsewhere (without the description of the particular activity)

[Akyeame Kwame]

Works on 4.1.11 with DBTech mods whereas the other popular mod, Everywhere Sidebar, does not. Installed and nominated.

[Akyeame Kwame]

On second thought this causes the following MySQL error:
Database error in vBulletin 4.1.11:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT threadid, postid
FROM post
WHERE postid IN (0post.postid IN (083301));

MySQL Error : Unknown column '0post.postid' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Wednesday, June 5th 2013 @ 09:32:43 AM
Error Date : Wednesday, June 5th 2013 @ 09:32:44 AM

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EDIT: Confirmed that this is working for 4.2.1
I'm back to nexia's

[theoutlawed]

Great plug-in working just dandy here on 4.2.1

Thanks for the time creating this!

[fxdigi-cash]

This is a great mod! The only thing is that if we had the option to select which block to display on each forum would be great...

Thanks

[Apolo.]

Hi,

Is it possible to display the sidebar from the very top of every single page on my forums by using this mod?

Thank you!

[PattiOz]

Doesn't work on 4.2.2

No option comes up in the Admin CP Options.