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!

[Trevor Matthews]

I am interested in this as well as I am not entirely happy with the mod I am using at the moment.

[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.

[Nirjonadda]

'); var sidebar_align = 'left'; var content_container_margin = parseInt('290px'); var sidebar_width = parseInt('270px'); //-->

sidebar not working

[Trevor Matthews]

I have been using ESB Gold but my forums mobile style is broken unless I disable ESB Gold.
Would I be able to try your mod if I disable Everywhere Sidebar Gold???

[Trevor Matthews]

Ouch, just disabled ESB and installed this mod.

All I got was a blank white page instead of my forum page..........
Quickly un-installed.

[Trevor Matthews]

I just installed this on an empty test forum.
All I get is a blank white page on parts of the forum where this mod is installed.
There seems to be a big issue here.

What did I miss????

[vbenhancer]

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.

do not compare between products, the result would be too sad for another product.. .rofl

technically, this engine is not interacting with any widget/sidebar-block, it just handle the sidebar wrapper, so i suppose it's ok...

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by Trevor Matthews

I just installed this on an empty test forum.
All I get is a blank white page on parts of the forum where this mod is installed.
There seems to be a big issue here.

What did I miss????

i have no idea, first time it calls an error... did you upload the file ?!

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by Trevor Matthews

I have been using ESB Gold but my forums mobile style is broken unless I disable ESB Gold.
Would I be able to try your mod if I disable Everywhere Sidebar Gold???

ESG requires file editions... you need to revert your files to their original state if you want to uninstall ESG ...

also, i have no idea about how it interact with mobile styles, so i can not evaluate what would work on such circumstance... i may evaluate that later when i'm ready to have an official non-beta version released.

[Trevor Matthews]

Yes, I upload the file to the forum root and then installed the plug-in.

It doesn't work on my live forum or my test forum. 4.1.11
A real shame as I wanted to get rid of ESB