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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[greenchicken]

I have 2 skins... 1 adfree and one regular... how do I remove this from only the ad free style?

[Seven Skins]

revert the template edits you done to the ads free style.

[Seven Skins]

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

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.

If you are going to add members photo's manually you can make a widget with "Static HTML" and use something similar to this code below.

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td>Image 1</td>
    <td>Image 2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Image 3</td>
    <td>Image 4</td>
  </tr>
</table>

But if you to add the images automatically then you will have to make a PHP Direct Execution widget.


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[openmind]

Installed. Wished I'd found this sooner and I would have got two hours of my life back

[Alecsmith]

installed again work great on Vb 4.0.2 PL 1

[BRotondi]

Originally Posted by tafreeh

this feature is now default by Vb

Yes for the CMS, but also for the forum.php?

Is there a simple way to enable/disable the column? I want the users give the possibility to click it away or get it back.

Thanks for the Add!
Bruno

[nirvana43]

Its not displaying correct style on vBulletin 4.0.2
Can you please help?

[Seven Skins]

What seems to be the issue?

[Welshy2008]

Great,

Thank You.

I too would like this to be inline with my Main Forum ** Please see a 'before' and 'after' screenshot of how I would like it.

I would also like the "What's going on box" to be 100% width of the forum too.


Would you be kind enough as to tell me how I would do this please?

As soon as I am able to do Both of the above, I will Rate and Nominate.


Many Thanks.

[BRotondi]

Use FireBug to get into the Html-Code and test margins etc.