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]

hum, this is supposed to show like this only when you deactivate the product...

[markp_2000]

I got it fixed. I had the plugins disabled globally in config.php. Your comment pointed me in the right direction.

Mark

[mgurain]

This mod should be a built-in feature in vbulletin !
However, when I enabled your mod, I got the following mod disabled :
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads.
please help ?

[shuangddr]

problem in the mobile Style

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by mgurain

This mod should be a built-in feature in vbulletin !
However, when I enabled your mod, I got the following mod disabled :
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads.
please help ?

i have to check this, because it is illogical to have this disabled...

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by shuangddr

problem in the mobile Style

this is not really a good bug report.. can you give me more infos ?

[dorans]

:up:
4.1.2 nice work, thanks!

[mgurain]

It's working on 4.2, but shouldn't this be upgraded ?

Regards,,

[ihstiv]

Originally Posted by 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.

Did you ever get this to work?

I'm having exactly the same issue on my forum. The sidebar collapse works w/ the default vb sidebar, but not w/ this product.

The error is also something to do w/ the YUI something or other..

TIA for any help.

[pokusek]

It seems that with vB 4.2 the sidebar does not work on pages online.php and memberlist.php (+ all data from the database does not display on these pages).