Shoutbox ONLY on Main page.

[Former Member]

Hi everyone,

I wonder how to only show the shoutbox on the main page. I don't want to see it while navigating threads/sub-boards or any other menu than the main page. How can I do this? I tried some stuff with '<!-- $[shoutbox] -->' but that did not seem to change anything.

Website for reference: theengineerlegion.boards.net/

Thanks in advance!

[David Clark]

Hey @wolfineer, I moved your thread to the Templates board since to accomplish this, you'll need to modify your layout templates.

It's pretty simple to get the shoutbox to only appear on the home page - just go to Admin > Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper and locate the $[shoutbox] variable in that template. Copy and delete it, and then save that template so it's removed from the wrapper (which is loaded on every page).

Then, go back to Admin > Themes > Layout Templates but click on Home this time. Scrolling down towards the bottom of this template, paste the $[shoutbox] variable where you'd like it to appear. Since this template only affects the homepage, it will appear there alone.

[Former Member]

Feb 28, 2014 12:08:23 GMT -8 David Clark said:

Hey @wolfineer, I moved your thread to the Templates board since to accomplish this, you'll need to modify your layout templates.

It's pretty simple to get the shoutbox to only appear on the home page - just go to Admin > Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper and locate the $[shoutbox] variable in that template. Copy and delete it, and then save that template so it's removed from the wrapper (which is loaded on every page).

Then, go back to Admin > Themes > Layout Templates but click on Home this time. Scrolling down towards the bottom of this template, paste the $[shoutbox] variable where you'd like it to appear. Since this template only affects the homepage, it will appear there alone.

Thanks a lot, I got it to work nicely. Did not know it was that easy!

[Mr. Tom]

Is it possible to do this but for a custom page, so the shout box is only on the custom page?

Thanks,
Mr. Tom

[David Clark]

It's possible, Mr. Tom, but it's not as easy as the instructions above. You'd need to place the shoutbox variable back into the Forum Wrapper template (so it appears on all pages again instead of the home page) then add in an If statement that checks whether or not you're on the custom page in question.

[Mr. Tom]

Ok, and what code exactly do I need to put in?

[David Clark]

First, reverse my instructions above (if you've followed them), taking $[shoutbox] out of the homepage template and placing it back to its original position in the Forum Wrapper template, under the $[content] variable, Mr. Tom. If you're starting fresh, though, the variable should already be in the right place and you shouldn't need to do that.

Then, highlight the $[shoutbox] variable in the Forum Wrapper and paste over it with this.

{if $[route.params.page_id] == "YOUR CUSTOM PAGE ID"}
$[shoutbox]
{/if}

You'll need to edit the bolded part to match whatever ID you provided when creating the custom page.

[scootermac]

Hi David,

I am having a problem creating the shoutbox on my custom page as well. I pasted the PHP code under the content but can't get it to show up on my page. I also made sure that the shoutbox is enabled under the forum settings.

 
$[content]
           {if $[route.params.page_id] == "testid"}
$[shoutbox]
{/if}

http://drunkdivision.com/page/testid

Does the custom page need to include the $[shoutbox] var and will it still work with custom domains?

Thanks