Sidebar Redux

[R4ph89]

I have a question about the sidebar plugin as well. How do I add my forum info and statistics at the bottom of my forum (with the legend) as part of my sidebar?

[Brian]

Nov 18, 2015 7:55:35 GMT -8 sunshine said:

Brian

hi there,

we recently enabled ad-free on our forum. previously the sidebar was below the top banner but since enabling ad-free, the sidebar has moved up alongside the banner and we can't seem to fix it. i have tried both the "yes" and "no" options for the "move welcome table" field but neither affect anything. what should i do?

edit: i did notice that we had the "move welcome table below ad" plugin enabled so after reading the FAQ i disabled it but it did not affect the placement of the sidebar.

thank you!

Can you provide a link to the forum in question?

Nov 18, 2015 10:21:26 GMT -8 R4ph89 said:

I have a question about the sidebar plugin as well. How do I add my forum info and statistics at the bottom of my forum (with the legend) as part of my sidebar?

As mentioned in your thread in the Support Board it's not possible to make the Legend or the Forum Information & Statistics show on every page so even if you move it to the sidebar it's going to disappear the moment you navigate away from the homepage.

[R4ph89]

May mistake, I thought it was a separate entity. I saw other forum sidebars that had recent activity/recent threads as an item and was hoping to have that added to mine.

[sunshine]

Nov 18, 2015 11:04:46 GMT -8 Brian said:

sure it's milkbc.proboards.com

[Brian]

Nov 18, 2015 11:10:53 GMT -8 R4ph89 said:

May mistake, I thought it was a separate entity. I saw other forum sidebars that had recent activity/recent threads as an item and was hoping to have that added to mine.

The Recently Updated Threads Sidebar plugin can be configured to show inside the Sidebar Redux plugin. Some others might be able to be added to it as well, but that's the only one I recall that officially supports it.

Nov 18, 2015 12:01:54 GMT -8 sunshine said:

Nov 18, 2015 11:04:46 GMT -8 Brian said:

sure it's milkbc.proboards.com

It looks like you moved the $[header] variable in Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper so that it comes before the banner, so regardless of the settings in the sidebar plugin the sidebar starts before the banner area.

If you go into that template and move the $[header] line so that it's back in its original spot before this line the Move Banner option should work normally again:

<div id="content" role="main">

[Mixed]

Hello Brian,

I have a baffling problem (hopefully just for me).

First off, I love this plugin. I use it on my forum and now I'm using it for the forum Lynx and I are building together. We are at avatarascent.boards.net/ (maintenance mode currently). The problem, you see, is inconsistent gaps between the containers.

On the right, you will notice a few containers practically all spaced nicely apart from each other. However, as life would have it, there is an odd-one-out. Between the "Staff List" and "Friends & Affiliates" there is no gap and they are butt up against each other. While it was recommended that I add a Style 3 box with only a "<br />" between them, it creates an inconsistent gap and I don't understand why this one requires it while others do not.

I would appreciate any advice and help. Thank you!

[Brian]

Mixed: You're missing a closing </div> at the end of the Staff List container, so the page is interpreting the next several containers as part of the Staff List container until the end of the sidebar since the container itself never closed.

[Mixed]

Nov 18, 2015 13:04:17 GMT -8 Brian said:

Mixed : You're missing a closing </div> at the end of the Staff List container, so the page is interpreting the next several containers as part of the Staff List container until the end of the sidebar since the container itself never closed.

Oh wow! I feel blind now. Thank you so much for catching that! It was just a bit frustrating for me. I'm glad it wasn't an ueber complicated thing. At the same time, I feel like it was a bit of a doih moment for me.

Either way, THANKS!!

[sunshine]

Nov 18, 2015 12:40:45 GMT -8 Brian said:

If you go into that template and move the $[header] line so that it's back in its original spot before this line the Move Banner option should work normally again:

<div id="content" role="main">

that fixed it. thank you very much

[R4ph89]

Got myself a new issue with this plugin. It doesn't seem to be phone friendly, because the shoutbox is taking up the entire screen for one of my guests (midnight).

The exact description can be found on my site thelostnationrp.proboards.com

[FogBeam]

I've scavenged this thread for the answer to my problem and I can't seem to figure it out.

My site is r-e-a-l-i-t-y-shift.proboards.com and you can probably see the issue haha. For some reason I can't seem to fix it; when I enable the sidebar plugin, It only adds the boxes up at the top of the forum, right beside the first board, and it just keeps pushing the first board up and away from the rest of the boards. If you scroll down further, you'll see that the rest of the boards span the entire page. I imported the plugin and enabled it and haven't done anything different to it but add my cbox code (it was acting like this before I added the cbox code just so you know). I probably missed something completely easy. Thank you!

EDIT: I have temporarily reverted to a previous skin to hide the issue, hence the cbox being a completely different colour.

[Brian]

Nov 21, 2015 7:40:00 GMT -8 R4ph89 said:

Got myself a new issue with this plugin. It doesn't seem to be phone friendly, because the shoutbox is taking up the entire screen for one of my guests (midnight).

The exact description can be found on my site thelostnationrp.proboards.com

Considering plugins only run on the desktop version of the forum this plugin was designed to be run on a desktop or laptop. I do not incorporate support for mobile devices since the mobile version of the forum is available to them.

Nov 21, 2015 9:41:03 GMT -8 FogBeam said:

I've scavenged this thread for the answer to my problem and I can't seem to figure it out.

My site is r-e-a-l-i-t-y-shift.proboards.com and you can probably see the issue haha. For some reason I can't seem to fix it; when I enable the sidebar plugin, It only adds the boxes up at the top of the forum, right beside the first board, and it just keeps pushing the first board up and away from the rest of the boards. If you scroll down further, you'll see that the rest of the boards span the entire page. I imported the plugin and enabled it and haven't done anything different to it but add my cbox code (it was acting like this before I added the cbox code just so you know). I probably missed something completely easy. Thank you!

EDIT: I have temporarily reverted to a previous skin to hide the issue, hence the cbox being a completely different colour.

Since you've switched to a different theme which theme was the problem initially showing on?

[R4ph89]

Fair enough.

[shaun056]

This may have already been answered, but I haven't got time to go through over 100 pages. Essentially, I attempted to add another bit to the sidebar with an image, it stretched the sidebar across. Got rid of the sidebar and added again and it's still stretched. Any idea what to do? The board is dissendium101.proboards.com/ The sidebar width is 200px and I have attempted to change the width of the forum with no luck.

[ireno]

I have gone through a lot of this pages but can't seem to figure it out how to change the size of the sidebar back. I updated the sidebar and when I hit save it became BIG!

The board is irenos-wonders.proboards.com/ the sidebar width is 250px, I have done what I can and can't see what the problem is? :/