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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[m3_fs]

Great hack!! It's just what I needed. Now, how do I edit the content of what goes in the right hand column?

Thanks!

[Taurus1]

This is great, thank you very much!

Is there an easy way to move the sidebar to the left perhaps?

[I3eXa]

Have been trying to install this today but for some reason it keeps cutting off my white background image across the whole forum page. Any ideas why? Here are before and after pics and thanks in advance for any info as I know you guys are busy with our stupid questions:

[I3eXa]

anyone!?

[Seven Skins]

This hack works wihtout any problem with vBulletin 4.1+

Please do make sure you insert {vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_start} and {vb:raw ss_rightcolumn_end} at the correct place. And if you using editied template then you have to find the correct place to insert them.

[I3eXa]

i have both of those inserted in the correct locations....I guess I'll have to try and figure out what has been edited

[zkilzz]

How can i use it on ALL pages? Like search, profile etc.

[spinko]

Hello,

I use vBadvanced CMPS v4.1.0 and photopost. Anyway I can get this to show in those?

In the past I was putting a simple table in the header and footer templates of my themes that basically wrapped the whole page in a table that I was able to put an ad on the outside, but since I installed vbul 4 (from 3.8), people with IE7 or older were getting strange sizing issues (posts were going extremely wide). I'm using your mod now (looks awesome by the way!) and it's working fine, but it only shows in the forum.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[the1rabbits]

Is this mod working with the latest version of vB?

[the1rabbits]

How do I change the width of the side bar?