Sidebar Redux

[Funkytown]

Aug 15, 2022 10:41:14 GMT -8 Kitty Katt said:

Funkytown,

Perhaps there is a confusion with terminology here. Do you mean "two separate boards" rather than "two separate forums"?

- Forum (the whole thing)
--- Categories (Main sections - contains Boards)
----- Boards (contained within a Category and contains Threads/Posts)

Perhaps there is simply a misunderstanding with the terminology used.

Edit: If that is not the case and you do mean two separate forums, then please disregard this post.

Yeah, my bad.

I oftentimes refer to them as "forum sections." I refer to the whole forum as "board" or "message board."

I mean two separate "boards" at the same forum.

Thanks!

[Todge]

Aug 15, 2022 15:13:28 GMT -8 Funkytown said:

Yeah, my bad.

I oftentimes refer to them as "forum sections." I refer to the whole forum as "board" or "message board."

I mean two separate "boards" at the same forum.

Thanks!

Ahh..

That is exactly what the Recently Updated Threads plugin does. It collects posting data forum wide, and displays it in one place of your choosing. It works well with the Sidebar Redux plugin, which is why it gets mentioned so much here.

[Funkytown]

Aug 16, 2022 7:32:59 GMT -8 Todge said:

Aug 15, 2022 15:13:28 GMT -8 Funkytown said:

Yeah, my bad.

I oftentimes refer to them as "forum sections." I refer to the whole forum as "board" or "message board."

I mean two separate "boards" at the same forum.

Thanks!

Ahh..

That is exactly what the Recently Updated Threads plugin does. It collects posting data forum wide, and displays it in one place of your choosing. It works well with the Sidebar Redux plugin, which is why it gets mentioned so much here.

Thank you so much for the feedback!

Any chance you have any advice about this, too? 

[dut]

Is it possible to change the height of each box on the same side? If so, how?

[Brian]

Jan 17, 2023 0:54:57 GMT -8 dut said:

Is it possible to change the height of each box on the same side? If so, how?

The height of each box is determined by its contents. If you want to change their heights individually you'll have to assign each of them an ID and change their heights using CSS.

[virtualman]

I simply want to use this plugin just for the shoutbox to show on the right instead of the bottom. Can you tell me exactly what I need to put in ? Or basic walkthrough ... I'm not code savy...

[Brian]

Feb 2, 2023 1:14:10 GMT -8 virtualman said:

I simply want to use this plugin just for the shoutbox to show on the right instead of the bottom. Can you tell me exactly what I need to put in ? Or basic walkthrough ... I'm not code savy...

Use the code in this thread:

support.proboards.com/thread/433242/script-move-shoutbox

But instead of adding the code in red to your sidebar create a Style 3 container in your right sidebar and type move-shoutbox into its ID field.

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[lp19]

I do apologize if this question has already been asked in this thread but yeah, 142 pages ....

First of all, love the sidebar. On my site it runs full matchcenters with live scores who are in real time update according to the football (soccer) games that we are following. Possibilities are endless with this plugin and my site would not be half of it what it is today without this plugin.

Ok, now my question. I'm using the rightside bar only for now. For estetics I do not want to use the lefthand sidebar but I was thinking that maybe if I could relocate the lefthand sidebar to a topbar, just under the header that there are even more possibilities for me to us that plugin.

Basically I would want to create a replacement for the ticker with short snippets of games that are "currently being played". Then why not use the ticker you ask because I want to use the scripts that are already written and the ticker does not do html, only plain text.

Anyway, long story short. How do I put the lefthand sidebar on top of the page as a replacement for the ticker. Several different boxes would then need to be stacked from left to right instead of from top to bottom.

Can this be done?

[Brian]

Feb 11, 2023 2:32:57 GMT -8 lp19 said:

Anyway, long story short. How do I put the lefthand sidebar on top of the page as a replacement for the ticker. Several different boxes would then need to be stacked from left to right instead of from top to bottom.

Can this be done?

Honestly, I would just use a separate plugin to accomplish this since most other plugins that add a container to the page are going to show in that area.

It's going to be a lot harder to reconfigure the sidebar plugin to show things in places it doesn't normally show them than it would be to use it as is in conjunction with another plugin that already adds containers where you want.

[lp19]

Feb 11, 2023 16:09:54 GMT -8 Brian said:

Feb 11, 2023 2:32:57 GMT -8 lp19 said:

Anyway, long story short. How do I put the lefthand sidebar on top of the page as a replacement for the ticker. Several different boxes would then need to be stacked from left to right instead of from top to bottom.

Can this be done?

Honestly, I would just use a separate plugin to accomplish this since most other plugins that add a container to the page are going to show in that area.

It's going to be a lot harder to reconfigure the sidebar plugin to show things in places it doesn't normally show them than it would be to use it as is in conjunction with another plugin that already adds containers where you want.

Which plugin would you recommend then?

[Brian]

Feb 12, 2023 4:26:55 GMT -8 lp19 said:

Feb 11, 2023 16:09:54 GMT -8 Brian said:

Honestly, I would just use a separate plugin to accomplish this since most other plugins that add a container to the page are going to show in that area.

It's going to be a lot harder to reconfigure the sidebar plugin to show things in places it doesn't normally show them than it would be to use it as is in conjunction with another plugin that already adds containers where you want.

Which plugin would you recommend then?

I don't know of any that achieve exactly what you described in your post, but there are alternatives like this one that have similar functionality:

proboards.com/library/plugins/item/456

My apologies for not having a multitude of suggestions. I don't personally run a forum so outside of development of my own plugins my usage of plugins by other authors is sparse.

[Mook]

Hi Brian,

I'm using your Sidebar Redux plug-in on my forum and am having some trouble with the fixed positioning. Instead of scrolling with the user down the page, the sidebar disappears and then re-appears at the bottom. Is there an easy fix? I'd like it to stay in one position.

Link to homepage

[Brian]

Mar 11, 2023 20:55:21 GMT -8 Mook said:

Hi Brian,

I'm using your Sidebar Redux plug-in on my forum and am having some trouble with the fixed positioning. Instead of scrolling with the user down the page, the sidebar disappears and then re-appears at the bottom. Is there an easy fix? I'd like it to stay in one position.

Link to homepage

I think there's an extra closing </div> tag somewhere on the page, though I'm not entirely sure where it's coming from. This would cause one of the sidebar plugin's elements to terminate early and for the part of the code that handles the scrolling to misinterpret its height which is needed for the scrolling.

If it's coming from a plugin it's after whichever plugin this is (unless it's the last plugin in your list): unovr.boards.net/admin/plugins/settings/40

Otherwise, it could be coming from somewhere in the forum itself or the theme. Since it happens on every page even if I force the sidebar to display it might be something in the Forum Wrapper template or the forum's global header.

[dut]

Hi Brian, thanks for answering me earlier. Ive encountered another problem though. As I have wanted to expand the banner, without making the content just as wide, I now have the sidebars linked to the first wrapper. It creates this huge gap between the boards and the sidebars. Are there any way to make the sidebars "cling" to the second wrapper, instead?

Ive used this, coding to make the difference in banner and content.

[dut]

Nevermind, I solved it.