Sidebar Redux

[sc190]

Hi Brian - just wanted to say many thanks for this! This is exactly what I was looking for! All hail!

[Brian]

Jan 11, 2013 20:59:25 GMT -8 Mands said:

Hi Brian

I just noticed this today when I was going onto members.... I'm not sure if it's due to the plug in or not, but typically, on V4 at least the members stay aligned to the top of the site when you click on them, but when I did on V5, suddenly I was faced with nothingness! I was like, oh heck, where did they go, what did I do panicking! LOL Then I scrolled down and there they were. Is that always going to happen or has there been a modification for it that I've missed?

Screenshot - Just so you know that box that has an image at the top that says The Untold Truth is the 4th box down, so you can relate to how far down from the top it is.

This was fixed when I updated it to 1.1.0. You can follow my instructions to update the plugin manually (posted on page 2) or you can redownload the plugin and just enter all of your content into the new one.

[kzweyr]

Thanks for creating this! It'll make a transfer from the old to the new much easier for our group.

Only issue I'm running into is when I go to put the stuff in the containter, it's not showing up at all? Like, the title bar for the container is actually there, but not the content. Might be missing something. . .

iitest2.freemessageboards.com/forum


Well, I seem to have it working now.  Not sure why that one box didn't want to work before though.

[sc190]

Hi Brian

I was just curious, is there a way I can make my boards and sidetables appear in the center of the window? When I deactivate the plugin, the board size is relative to the size of the page (like proboards support), but when the plugin is switched on it remains the same size and is forced to the left side of the forum.

Any insight would be a relief as I've been pondering this all day!


My board url is: hoglibrary.freemessageboards.com/

Thanks!

[Brian]

Jan 12, 2013 11:24:47 GMT -8 sc190 said:

Hi Brian

I was just curious, is there a way I can make my boards and sidetables appear in the center of the window? When I deactivate the plugin, the board size is relative to the size of the page (like proboards support), but when the plugin is switched on it remains the same size and is forced to the left side of the forum.

Any insight would be a relief as I've been pondering this all day!


My board url is: hoglibrary.freemessageboards.com/

Thanks!

Is your theme super old or was it recently made?

Either way, I copied your theme, reset the CSS, and re-entered all the colors you had in the Easy Theme Creator. Seems to work from what I see.

Hog Lib 09 Brian Edit.pbt (33.97 KB)

[sc190]

It's amazing how you can just fix all that up so quickly and with such an obvious solution...I continue to bow down to you to the extent my back is a little sore but it's worth pushing through the pain!

Many thanks, Brian! And again thanks for this plug-in! ;D

[Brian]

Updated to 1.2.0.

Completely optional! This update adds a header/footer tab to the plugin. This way if you want something between your sidebars, you can just add it to the plugin's headers and footers.

I barely realized that the regular headers/footers are always above and below the sidebars, so this was made to circumvent that problem.

[Former Member]

Awesome! Thanks for the fix Brian. ^_^

[kzweyr]

Brian, is there a way to make one of the boxes not have the container? I ask because I've moved the provided shoutbox there and having the container around it looks slightly off. And the disabled option just seems to get rid of the box completely, not the styling for it.

[Brian]

Jan 13, 2013 5:29:32 GMT -8 kzweyr said:

Brian, is there a way to make one of the boxes not have the container? I ask because I've moved the provided shoutbox there and having the container around it looks slightly off. And the disabled option just seems to get rid of the box completely, not the styling for it.

Yeah, that's what the disabled option is supposed to do.

Set your box to Style 2 and give your box an ID, then add this to your theme's CSS, substituting the text in red with the ID you specified:

#yourcustomid > .content-box {
    padding: 0px !important;
    background-color: transparent;
    border-width: 0px;
}

[kzweyr]

Well the preview box shows that that does the trick, but the style sheet won't save. . . .

[Brian]

Bah, more style sheet issues. PM me the link to your forum so I can add it to the list for my bug report.

For now, surround that CSS with <style type="text/css"> and </style> and place it in your Global Header.

[Brian]

Jan 13, 2013 18:20:17 GMT -8 Mands said:

Jan 12, 2013 23:08:33 GMT -8 Brian said:

Updated to 1.2.0.

Completely optional! This update adds a header/footer tab to the plugin. This way if you want something between your sidebars, you can just add it to the plugin's headers and footers.

I barely realized that the regular headers/footers are always above and below the sidebars, so this was made to circumvent that problem.

Nice, however, I think I should be okay with the other version that I downloaded for my real forum after the issue with the members and profile appearing lower was fixed. My side tables on V4 are pretty average. But I will have to remember about this update if I discover something isn't right.

Yep, that's why I said it was optional. People loathe having to re-enter all of their information.

[Matt [Malfoy250]]

Hey Brian, I'm not really code savvy so I'm having a bit of trouble understanding some of the stuff. I'm looking for a way to have different sidebar images apply to different themes, so that they won't be mismatched. I was under the impression that this code could do that, but I'm having trouble figuring out how this might be possible. Do you think you could walk me through it?

[Brian]

Are you referring to images posted with the <img> tags or background images for the sidebars?