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!

[x3000gold]

I cannot check the pages in the option page. See attached image.

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by x3000gold

I cannot check the pages in the option page. See attached image.

that's because you disabled the product...

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by pokusek

It seems that with vB 4.2 the sidebar does not work on pages online.php and memberlist.php (+ all data from the database does not display on these pages).

i will check if an update is needed, and release it.

[ihstiv]

Originally Posted by ihstiv

Did you ever get this to work?

I'm having exactly the same issue on my forum. The sidebar collapse works w/ the default vb sidebar, but not w/ this product.

The error is also something to do w/ the YUI something or other..

TIA for any help.

For anyone having this issue w/ a non-default style; I figured out what the fix is for this.

Search all of the '..._NEX_SIDEBAR' templates for '+ yuipath +' and replace it with: '{vb:stylevar yuipath}' - you have to remove the single quotes and '+' characters on either side too - seems it was looking for a JS variable instead of a vb variable..

Maybe this fix should be included in the next release?

Cheers

[ihstiv]

Thanks for this great product.

Here is a vote to have the sidebar included on the vb 4.2 'activity stream' page in the next release.

Let me know if there are some easy steps for me to implement this myself..

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by ihstiv

For anyone having this issue w/ a non-default style; I figured out what the fix is for this.

Search all of the '..._NEX_SIDEBAR' templates for '+ yuipath +' and replace it with: '{vb:stylevar yuipath}' - you have to remove the single quotes and '+' characters on either side too - seems it was looking for a JS variable instead of a vb variable..

Maybe this fix should be included in the next release?

Cheers

THANKS for this fix... i was not aware of that problem/bug, will edit the release this week-end!

[reteep]

Dear nexia,

thanks for this great mod, it's the best Sidebar Mod available right now!

I was wondering if it is also possible to show a sidebar on usercp.php and private.php?

Kind Regards
Andreas

[vbenhancer]

hum, for the usercp and private, i was to rethink their actual sidebar to make it more fluid with the forum's one and merge both in a greater look... i will take some days to make it so, as i'm upgrading all my other tools on my official site.

[ihstiv]

I discovered that the FORUMHOME_NEX_SIDEBAR template has this (unnecessary?) code that was causing duplicate comment punctuation marks between my currently logged in users, so I removed it and it solved the problem: {vb:raw loggedin.comma}

location:
<li>{vb:stylevar dirmark}<a class="username" href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw loggedin}}">{vb:raw loggedin.musername}</a>{vb:raw loggedin.invisiblemark}{vb:raw loggedin.buddymark}{vb:raw loggedin.comma}</li>

unless I'm missing the reason it was there, this might be a good fix for the next release.

Cheers

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by ihstiv

I discovered that the FORUMHOME_NEX_SIDEBAR template has this (unnecessary?) code that was causing duplicate comment punctuation marks between my currently logged in users, so I removed it and it solved the problem: {vb:raw loggedin.comma}

location:
<li>{vb:stylevar dirmark}<a class="username" href="{vb:link member, {vb:raw loggedin}}">{vb:raw loggedin.musername}</a>{vb:raw loggedin.invisiblemark}{vb:raw loggedin.buddymark}{vb:raw loggedin.comma}</li>

unless I'm missing the reason it was there, this might be a good fix for the next release.

Cheers

actually, you are right AND wrong...

what you found is in the FORUMHOME template, in vB 4.2 template... not in my template with is based on the 4.1.12 version of the FORUMHOME template...

so yes, i have to update my template to fit both versions !!!