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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[Seven Skins]

Originally Posted by kalisekj

Love it but majority of users want it for Recent Posts (Recent Threads, tags etc...) like you have on your sevenskins site and they don't know how to do that so you should explain it in detail here or add it to this plugin. Of course I'm one of them. Thanks.

On my site I am not using this hack, I am using vbulletin sidebar.

[javivi0]

hello thanks for the hack!!!!!!

I want to enable this hack on "search new post page"... it´s possible?

or in all pages?

thanksss

[mabersoft]

Any chance this can be made to add the template edits auto?

[thedreamer09]

this was quite difficult to follow for a newbie like me, but i did it successfully in the end

[Seven Skins]

Originally Posted by mabersoft

Any chance this can be made to add the template edits auto?

No, there is nothing (real/static) which I could use to do search and replace.

[topoli]

where exactly in the template would you paste the ad code in order to make this work?

[hhtaylor]

This is a great application. I have been trying to understand how to change the layout of a forum page so my blocks would remain in place when the user goes into a forum. This feature solves that problem. The only limit is the width of the column - I need at least 285 px to fit my application. Is there any way to make the column wider?

[iadventure]

how can I make it wider like 230px?

[Seven Skins]

To adjust the width of the column edit "ss_rightcolumn_css.css" template.

You will find 3 instances of "210px" edit it to 295px .. 10 pixels wider then column.
And you will find 2 instances of 200px edit it to 285 pixels.

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[childfun]

If I want to change the color of the headers in the right column, do you know what I change in stylevars? I have been trying for a long time and am not getting it...