Sidebar Redux

[Brian]

Dec 19, 2015 9:25:56 GMT -8 fennie said:

Hi there.

I am trying out a new theme by Smangii called Coastline (smangii.proboards.com/thread/40266/coastline) but it doesn't seem to acknowledge the existence of the plugin at all. There is no sidebar, but nothing else appears to be out of the ordinary. Can you help?

My forum is pearlshipping-vault.boards.net/. (Said theme is currently set to staff only)

Thanks.

You appear to have the plugin disabled on that theme according to the settings that come up when clicking the Edit button next to the plugin in Plugins > Manage.

[fennie]

Oh, sorry for your wasted time. We've just decided that we weren't going to keep that theme.
I didn't think you'd reply so fast, sorry again.

[Former Member]

How can I disable the sidebars only in custom pages?

[Brian]

Jan 5, 2016 10:45:15 GMT -8 @silenced said:

How can I disable the sidebars only in custom pages?

You'd need to alter the homepage-only code from the first post of this thread to target custom pages instead.

Change this line:

if(proboards.data('route').name != "home") {

To this:

if(proboards.data('route').name == "page") {

[Former Member]

Thank you!

[Mixed]

Hello. I know it's possible to disable the plugin on different themes. What I would like to know before I try it is

Is it possible to tell the plugin to do different things on different themes?
For example, could I have the shoutbox in the sidebar on one theme but not others?

Thanks a bunch!

[Brian]

Jan 11, 2016 8:57:18 GMT -8 Mixed said:

Hello. I know it's possible to disable the plugin on different themes. What I would like to know before I try it is

Is it possible to tell the plugin to do different things on different themes?
For example, could I have the shoutbox in the sidebar on one theme but not others?

Thanks a bunch!

Yes, but it's a massive pain in the butt to accomplish. Essentially you'll need to add every single container for every single theme into the sidebar plugin, then use your style sheet on each theme to target the IDs you assigned to each container not associated with that particular theme and hide them.

[Mixed]

Oh. That does sound like a pain in the butt. Me thinks I'll consider something else.

Thank you, Brian !

[Katara~*]

Hello!

I'm having trouble getting the sidebar to be parallel with the body of the forum.
Any ideas?
efour.proboards.com/

Thank you!

[Brian]

Jan 16, 2016 13:16:14 GMT -8 Katara~* said:

Hello!

I'm having trouble getting the sidebar to be parallel with the body of the forum.
Any ideas?
efour.proboards.com/

Thank you!

It looks like this is due to your Category Split Length plugin. If you set it to only split below categories your first category should move up to be at the same horizontal position as your first sidebar container.

[cottonflower2]

Hi. I'm have a bit of trouble with the Sidebars on my roleplay forum.
I'm trying to type one sentence on the first line, then press the enter key to type a new sentence on the second line. But then when I go to my forum's homepage, everything is still on one line, then continues to the next line when it runs out of room.

I'm not very good at explaining things, so here's what I mean: cots-rp.boards.net  In the "Stats" sidebar, "Prey: Plentiful" is supposed to be on the next line (under "Season: Newleaf"), but it just stays on the first line until there's no more room. How can I fix this?

[Brian]

Jan 26, 2016 16:04:32 GMT -8 cottonflower2 said:

Hi. I'm have a bit of trouble with the Sidebars on my roleplay forum.
I'm trying to type one sentence on the first line, then press the enter key to type a new sentence on the second line. But then when I go to my forum's homepage, everything is still on one line, then continues to the next line when it runs out of room.

I'm not very good at explaining things, so here's what I mean: cots-rp.boards.net  In the "Stats" sidebar, "Prey: Plentiful" is supposed to be on the next line (under "Season: Newleaf"), but it just stays on the first line until there's no more room. How can I fix this?

Jan 26, 2016 17:11:55 GMT -8 riogho said:

use <p> to skip a line, its html

Actually you should use a <br /> tag to produce a line break.

A <p> tag requires a closing </p> tag. Using an opening <p> tag by itself without a closing tag is improper HTML.

[cottonflower2]

Jan 26, 2016 17:24:46 GMT -8 Brian said:

Jan 26, 2016 16:04:32 GMT -8 cottonflower2 said:

Hi. I'm have a bit of trouble with the Sidebars on my roleplay forum.
I'm trying to type one sentence on the first line, then press the enter key to type a new sentence on the second line. But then when I go to my forum's homepage, everything is still on one line, then continues to the next line when it runs out of room.

I'm not very good at explaining things, so here's what I mean: cots-rp.boards.net  In the "Stats" sidebar, "Prey: Plentiful" is supposed to be on the next line (under "Season: Newleaf"), but it just stays on the first line until there's no more room. How can I fix this?

Jan 26, 2016 17:11:55 GMT -8 riogho said:

use <p> to skip a line, its html

Actually you should use a <br /> tag to produce a line break.

A <p> tag requires a closing </p> tag. Using an opening <p> tag by itself without a closing tag is improper HTML.

Awesome! Thanks so much!

[Brian]

Jan 26, 2016 15:51:31 GMT -8 riogho said:

Brian

I am trying to have the header that I put in the sidebar plugin (to get it to size to 100% between the sidebars) only display on the homepage

thanks  

You'd need to contain the contents of your header inside of another element with a class or ID, then use an if statement in Javascript to hide that element if you're not on the homepage.

<div id="sidebar-header">
Your sidebar header content here
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
if(pb.data('route').name != "home")
$('#sidebar-header').hide();
</script>

[bazzza]

Dear Brian

May I first thank you on creating such a great plugin. My coding expertise is minimal but I have really enjoyed playing around trying to get all manner of widgets, code snippets etc to work in your plugin's containers and up to now have been very successful. There have been some late, headscratching nights along the way trying to fathom out why some certain bits of code didn't play ball and it is nearly always down to a typo or missing link references etc.

Thats what I like about creative plugins like this, they make one think but at the same time learn and expand ones knowledge without realising, simply because it is fun.

I kind of understand the buzz you coders get when slaving over a code to get it to work and then when it finally does, bingo !! A great feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction and the dawn of realisation that one is starting to get the hang of it (or possibly I need to get out more ).

On trying to push the boundaries on what can be hosted in your plugin, I knew I would finally be beaten at some point. I have been dabbling with some of the codes from Dynamic Drive and been very successful in getting them to work and I was dead chuffed when I got these to work in the side bar ( or so I thought ) as it took me a while to understand the external calls to js and css files.


http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ddaccordionmenu.htm

I have the accordian menus working within the containers, therefore the js and css files are hosted and being called correctly and the images and dropdown fuctions within the accordian menus work perfectly. However, once added into a container every single element within the board that is a clickable dropdown (collapsible categories / Style 1 containers in your plugin / Hide-Show Info Centre / Collapsible Shoutbox), become open all the time and cannot be clicked to close them again.

My test board is.....


http://bazzatestboard.proboards.com/  

...where you can see the problem I'm having. I have reset the default template to new and switched off all other plugins except for yours and also the Collapsible Categories plugin. I have also remarked out any header and footer codes in case it might have been one of those.

I have tried all sorts of permutations to try and identify if it is just one specific code/plugin/container causing the issue but it doesn't matter which of the three at my test site I have hosted, once I add any code of this type into any of the three types of Redux container and press save, it happens everytime.

If I disable the container the board goes straight back to normal with all clickable or collapsible dropdowns functioning correctly.

I'm assuming it's a function in the accordian menus code (or the other magnify code as that causes the same problem) blanket overwriting the click function for the board.

Remembering that my coding skills are minimal, is there a way to fix this please Brian ?


Thanks & Best wishes / Brian (aka Bazza)

Edit : I have just been to make sure you can see at least one board and reply in it as a guest and it seems the contents of the sidebar are also preventing posting as a guest, I guess it's interfering with the Captcha side of things, thought I might mention it.