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!

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Any chance of getting the ability to assign blocks based on THIS_SCRIPT? For example, different blocks on the forum homepage vs thread pages, or search pages?

that would be a good enhancement, but it would require i make editions of the sidebar generation, which is not what i had planned for this week... but yes, this is something to consider PRETTY SOON!

[pokusek]

Good mod.

But what bugs me is the fact that on the forumhome the sidebar is few pisels above the default sidebar (without the modification installed):



Could you please take look at this?

Also, could be the sidebar included on pages with enhanced editor on (when writing a new thread/post)?

Thanks!

[pokusek]

Oh, I just figured out the sidebar position issue. I added this style to the sidebar_container div in the template FORUMHOME_NEX_SIDEBAR:

style="margin-top:38px !important;"

Now it works

[vbenhancer]

yeap, sure, you can edit the template, or add the value of that class in your additional.css...

for adding other pages into selection, it will be done in the next days... i'm on other tasks right now...

[010081]

Originally Posted by Trevor Matthews

Gemma, thank you very much.
I now have this mod in place and it doesn't break my mobile style as ESB did!

I have one last question. I still have the little icon to collapse the whole sidebar, even though collapsing the sidebar is disabled the collapse icon is still there.
Is it possible to get rid of it?

Many thanks again.

I have the same issue.. anyone please....

[010081]

Originally Posted by 010081

I have the same issue.. anyone please....

Ok that was pretty simple hahahahah finally found it...

just add it to ur additional.css template thats it..

#sidebar_button_link {
display:none;
}

[draver]

This sidebar is killing my mobile style. Any chance to deactivate this only for mobile style?

[SashaCPF]

I cannot get the collapse button to work. Yes, I actually WANT the collapse button and I want my members to be able to choose if they want to see the sidebar or not. I click on the collapse button and nothing happens. The link associated with the button is:

http://mywebsite/vb/#

Shouldn't the # be "{vb:raw relpath}#top" ? I tried that and it still won't collapse.

[SashaCPF]

Still cannot get the collapse button to actually collapse the sidebar. Is this thread being monitored anymore?

[ptceuro]

wow, thats an awesome tutorial, thanks so much!!