Forum Home Enhancements - Right side column on forum home and forum display

Right side column on forum home and forum display

As the title says this mod simply puts a column on forumhome and forumdisplay pages.

Installation:
Download the attached XML file.
Import the product.
Edit navbar and footer templates. (See below)



Add this to the very end of navbar template:

{vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_start}

PS. After edit the code above must be the last line in the navbar template.



Add the code below to the first line of footer template:

{vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_end}

Footer template after adding the code:

{vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_end}

<vb:if condition="!empty($ad_location['ad_footer_start']) or !empty($ad_location['global_above_footer'])">
<div style="clear: {vb:stylevar left}">
  {vb:raw ad_location.ad_footer_start}
  {vb:raw ad_location.global_above_footer}
</div>
</vb:if>

......

Once you have installed the modification edit "SevenSkins - Templates > ss_rightcolumn_contents to put your advert or contents in the side column.


Finally don't forget to click install.


Thanks to Lynne for additional css plugin code which I used in this modification.


PS. Do not use my side column mods together use only one.


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If you want to enable or disable this hack on different pages of the forum .. 
Edit the ss_rightcolumn_start and ss_rightcolumn_end templates:
 
Find:
<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index' OR THIS_SCRIPT == 'forumdisplay'">
 
Edit it to ... for home page:
<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">
 
 
Edit it to ... for homepage, forumdisplay and showthread:
<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index' OR THIS_SCRIPT == 'forumdisplay' OR THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread'">

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Updates:
19 Jan 10: Upadted so the column tables can be seen on showtherad, etc pages ..
- Save the code from "ss_rightcolumn_contents" template. (Code for ads, etc)
- Revert template belonging to this product.
- Then import the product over writting the existing installation.
- Put your ad code in the "ss_rightcolumn_contents" template.


15 Jan 10: Updated for vBulletin 4.0.1
2 templates has been changed.
- Save the code from "ss_rightcolumn_contents" template. (Code for ads, etc)
- Revert template belonging to this product.
- Then import the product over writting the existing installation.
- Put your ad code in the "ss_rightcolumn_contents" template.


22 Dec 09: Working with vBulletin 4.0.0 (Gold)

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[ofir24]

there is any for the left side? and for vb 4.1.7?

[John Lester]

Originally Posted by John Lester

My only issue with this hack is that the column is a few pixels higher than my forum display and I can't figure out how to adjust it I have tried adding padding as alluded to on page 11 ... or 10 .. whatever ... and it doesn't do anything.

I still can't figure this out. The column sits a few pixels higher than the forums do and it's kind of annoying

EDIT: Figured out how to "fix" it. This is on 4.1.5 pl3 (not sure if that matters )

Open the xml file

Find (adjusts forum display page column)

.ss_rightcolumn_index {
  width: 200px;
  overflow: hidden;
  margin-top: 44px;

Change the margin-top: to fit your site, for me it was 50px.

Find (adjusts thread display page column)

.ss_rightcolumn_other {
  width: 200px;
  overflow: hidden;
  margin-top: 1px;

Change margin-top (I had to change it to 90).

After you change the xml, import the changed xml and "allow overwight". Remember to refresh the page to see how the changes affected the column.

[WIJI SEJATI]

I have same problem

Originally Posted by haidm

Does anyone have the same problem with me?

[Seven Skins]

Install this on default style and see if it works. if it works then you know you will have to fix something in your custom style.

And make sure you add these in the correct place.

{vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_start}
{vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_end}

[mirajane]

as I understand.. it was just like sidebar right??

[WIJI SEJATI]

Done and Thank You very much.

Originally Posted by Seven Skins

Install this on default style and see if it works. if it works then you know you will have to fix something in your custom style.

And make sure you add these in the correct place.

{vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_start}
{vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_end}

[MikaN]

I just upgraded from vb3.8 to 4.1.7 Patch level 2 and noticed that there is a small error in instructions:

Find in footer template (top of footer template):
HTML Code:
{vb:raw ad_location.ad_footer_start}
Add above:
HTML Code:
{vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_end}

As the footer is now:

<vb:if condition="!empty($ad_location['ad_footer_start']) or !empty($ad_location['global_above_footer'])">
<div style="clear: {vb:stylevar left}">
{vb:raw ad_location.ad_footer_start}
{vb:raw ad_location.global_above_footer}
</div>
</vb:if>
<div id="footer" class="floatcontainer footer">

.. you have to add that {vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_end}

above <div id="footer" class="floatcontainer footer">

because otherwise it is inside that if-clause and it won't work if you don't have an ad on footer.

One question: How to center title and content?

[Wajow-community]

i have a login system there and i need a avatar link.. but nothing works.

How can a fix that {vb:raw post.avatarurl} works under Right Column?

[lem]

I've attached a picture of my problem. I have this problem with both the right column and left column plugins.

Any ideas? It's like something isn't being cleared out.

[pcalloway]

Got this hack working perfectly - thanks muchly.

Question - is it possible to set the conditional to display on the 'get new posts' results page? My users use New Posts a ton - great opportunity for additional impressions and clickthroughs.