Sidebar Redux

[sachofscp]

Hello again Brian, he he.

I can't even open the plugin. What do I need to have on my laptop to open the .pbp files since I know I'm going to need more than one plugin & the sidebar one is the most important. (it's the quick stuff someone may need; like the care sheets, supply list, what to feed, etc and having it easily accessible in one place together is very important.)

[Brian]

Jan 23, 2013 18:37:24 GMT -8 sachofscp said:

Hello again Brian, he he.

I can't even open the plugin. What do I need to have on my laptop to open the .pbp files since I know I'm going to need more than one plugin & the sidebar one is the most important. (it's the quick stuff someone may need; like the care sheets, supply list, what to feed, etc and having it easily accessible in one place together is very important.)

Judging by the fact that you liked Ryan's post. I'm assuming you found the guide on how to install plugins.

[sandy000]

Very nice plugin. I would like to add Recent Status Updates and Recent Topics.
Can this be done? thanks

[Brian]

Jan 24, 2013 6:30:44 GMT -8 sandy000 said:

Very nice plugin. I would like to add Recent Status Updates and Recent Topics.
Can this be done? thanks

Those can be put on a page via custom page widgets, but not through my plugin. Sorry.

[sachofscp]

OMG I could not feel more dumb. I looked at that twice yesterday & it never crossed my mind that I didn't need to open it. I told you I didn't know what I was doing!

[wildmaven]

Might be a good idea to reinforce that the sidebar width and the padding widths MUST include the px (ex: 200px, not just 200). I futzed and fumed for about an hour, trying to figure out why it wasn't working, until I put in the px.

[Brian]

Jan 24, 2013 9:59:47 GMT -8 wildmaven said:

Might be a good idea to reinforce that the sidebar width and the padding widths MUST include the px (ex: 200px, not just 200). I futzed and fumed for about an hour, trying to figure out why it wasn't working, until I put in the px.

I dunno about you, but mine says it.



Every default area of the Themes section also requires the px suffix, so I figured it had been standardized. But I did place the hint there.

[sandy000]

Thanks for the reply Brian Ordonez .

[sachofscp]

Hi again!
I hope this isn't another dumb question but I did re-read this entire thread & I've already been able to fix & figure out my other questions before I asked, but how do I make the content of my sidebar be links like they used to be? Like you click on the words "Supply list" and it takes you to the thread where the supply list is, you click "substrate" and it takes you to my thread on substrate? I tried doing it the old way with <url=.........>Words</url> and the link doesn't show but it doesn't make the words a link either.
Thank you in advance

[Brian]

There's no <url> tag in HTML, so you may be mistaken. Posts (BBCode) have [url] tags while HTML uses <a> tags.

Anyways, here's a standard HTML link:
<a href="URL TO PAGE">Text to display</a>



So <a href="www.proboards.com">ProBoards</a> would come out as: ProBoards

[sachofscp]

Jan 24, 2013 11:28:40 GMT -8 Brian said:

There's no <url> tag in HTML, so you may be mistaken. Posts (BBCode) have [url] tags while HTML uses <a> tags.

Yes, he he.  Sorry, I only figured out to try <> instead of [] by reading about a different isue but yes [url} was what I used to do, so thank you.  I think I DID know about the <a href..... I had just forgotten since I hadn't done it in a while.  Again, thank you so much for your help!

[wildmaven]

Jan 24, 2013 10:14:05 GMT -8 Brian said:

Jan 24, 2013 9:59:47 GMT -8 wildmaven said:

Might be a good idea to reinforce that the sidebar width and the padding widths MUST include the px (ex: 200px, not just 200). I futzed and fumed for about an hour, trying to figure out why it wasn't working, until I put in the px.

I dunno about you, but mine says it.



Every default area of the Themes section also requires the px suffix, so I figured it had been standardized. But I did place the hint there.

No problem. I'm sure it was just me who thought you only had to enter a number. No worries.

[sachofscp]

Nope, I was doing the same thing until you posted that; thank you!

[sachofscp]

Okay, Brian, first let me say that now I am totally in love with this plugin! This is about 7,000 times easier for me to make the tables than it was before! Thank you, so much! Two quick questions though, Can I change the text of stuff in my container? Also, how do I move it down the page a bit? I don't mean the fixed scrolling thing but just so it isn't at the top, but a little farther down the left side?

Like down next to the "Emergencies" Category, maybe?

Sach's Crab Page

[Thaïs]

Brian Hi Brian,

I have a tiny problem, the shoutbox sidebar that I have doesn't show up on some of the pages, like Profile and Messages. I need it to show up everywhere, though. Also, instead I get the list of boards sidebar everywhere when I only need that one to show up on boards pages... I'm at a loss, could you help me fix this? Here's the forum (beta). Thanks