Forum Home Enhancements - Left side column on forum home and forum display

Left 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)


Find in navbar template:

<div class="body_wrapper">

Add below:

{vb:raw ss_leftcolumn_start}

Add the code below to the first line of footer template:

{vb:raw ss_leftcolumn_end}

Footer template after adding the code:

{vb:raw ss_leftcolumn_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_leftcolumn_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_leftcolumn_start and ss_leftcolumn_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:
15 Jan 10: Updated
- Save the code from "ss_leftcolumn_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_leftcolumn_contents" template.


15 Jan 10: Updated for vBulletin 4.0.1
2 templates has been changed.
- Save the code from "ss_leftcolumn_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_leftcolumn_contents" template.


22 Dec 09: Working with vBulletin 4.0.0 (Gold)


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[crashys]

Hi there, first of, great work with the mod! Really usefull
Just one question, is it possible to make the 'What's Going On?' column so that it looks like in this mod? It would be just perfect If it were possible to get it filling the bottom of the forums. Thanks in advance for your time and work, really great job.

[Seven Skins]

Hmm, After editing forumhome template .. this will work only on forumhome not other pages.

.

[crashys]

Originally Posted by Seven Skins

Hmm, After editing forumhome template .. this will work only on forumhome not other pages.

.

That's precisely what I wanted. Can you guide me how to do it?

Here is my forum link.

Thanks

[Verionia]

so this works with vbulletin suite gold?

[Seven Skins]

Originally Posted by crashys

That's precisely what I wanted. Can you guide me how to do it?

Here is my forum link.

Thanks

I will try it out and let you know later.

Originally Posted by Verionia

so this works with vbulletin suite gold?

Yes it does.

[crashys]

Originally Posted by Seven Skins

I will try it out and let you know later.

:up:

[Alecsmith]

How to reduce space and make it small it like twine banners my forum link in my siggy space.

[Doctor Death]

I have a series of member photographs, very small... 99 pixels wide.

I would like to know if I could display my members photos on the left panel two-by-twos using this product.

all of the images are 99 x 84 pixels wide, so I imagine using some form of html table.

what would you recommend and do you think this would be an appropriate product to do this with or is there something native in Vbulletin that would be better?

(I only want them displayed on the main CMS landing page)

Thanks!

[Seven Skins]

For cms page you can make a html widget with a table to put your images.

[Doctor Death]

Originally Posted by Seven Skins

For cms page you can make a html widget with a table to put your images.

Thats a great idea... I am trying to have pictures with their names below them, two across.

can you give me a sample of what that HTML code would look like?

Thank you again.