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!

[laebshade]

Originally Posted by vbenhancer

that is EXACTLY what is planned for non-standard pages...

for version 1.0.2... before that, i debug the absolute version!

Fantastic! Glad to hear it. Thanks!

[Trevor Matthews]

I still don't see why this will not work on a new vb install with no modifications whatsoever.
Try it your self here www.tmforum.co.uk
It doesn't work!

[vbenhancer]

from what i see, IT IS...

you did not put any content in your sidebar, that's all from what i see...

[Trevor Matthews]

It isn't, click on forum, you will see a test sidebar, click on blogs and you get nothing apart from a blank white page. Click on Calendar, you get a blank white page.

[joeychgo]

Can the sidebar width be adjusted?

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

Can the sidebar width be adjusted?

it's all based on the sidebar.css template you can edit to your wishes... but basically, it all depand on your design, not my code!

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by Trevor Matthews

It isn't, click on forum, you will see a test sidebar, click on blogs and you get nothing apart from a blank white page. Click on Calendar, you get a blank white page.

that's what i said from the begining.. you did not upload via ftp the file in the proper path found in the UPLOAD_THIS folder...

[lillylissy]

Good Job!
Thank you vbenhancer!

[Samsine]

Thanks for sharing!

After editing "show sidebar on pages" are all labels removed.
vB 4.1.11

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by Samsine

After editing "show sidebar on pages" are all labels removed.
vB 4.1.11

what did you edit and for what purpose?!