Sidebar Redux

[Brian]

Jim Jamer:

The Container ID field in the Recently Updated Threads Sidebar plugin can be used to make it show inside the Sidebar Redux plugin. All you have to do is create a Style 3 container in the Sidebar Redux plugin and give it an ID, then insert that same ID into the updated threads plugin. It should then display perfectly inline with your other sidebar containers.

You'd need to manually create your member lists in your sidebar container.

It wouldn't be possible to update the list automatically as it has no concept of what the thread looks like unless you're already viewing the thread. The best you could do is have someone create a plugin for that and have it display that information in a placeholder element.

[Jim Jamer]

Sept 19, 2016 7:49:18 GMT -8 Brian said:

The Container ID field in the Recently Updated Threads Sidebar plugin can be used to make it show inside the Sidebar Redux plugin. All you have to do is create a Style 3 container in the Sidebar Redux plugin and give it an ID, then insert that same ID into the updated threads plugin. It should then display perfectly inline with your other sidebar containers.

You'd need to manually create your member lists in your sidebar container.

It wouldn't be possible to update the list automatically as it has no concept of what the thread looks like unless you're already viewing the thread. The best you could do is have someone create a plugin for that and have it display that information in a placeholder element.

Hi, thanks for replying. But for some reason it isn't working for me? I took screen shots, to see if I'm doing something wrong:

[Brian]

Jim Jamer: "Recent Threads" isn't a valid ID. An ID can only contain:

- Letters
- Numbers
- Hyphens
- Underscores

Spaces are not permitted. Removing the space should resolve the issue.

[Jim Jamer]

Thank you so much!!! It worked <3

[trooperneedshelp]

Jan 11, 2013 2:50:35 GMT -8 Brian said:

What you're asking for is probably better off being done in the Layout Templates where you can control whether or not something displays before the page even loads.

This code is simply made to emulate Smangii's side tables in V5. Sorry if it doesn't meet your personal criteria, but the source for the code is editable if you feel you can make it work better with your layout. I've done all I can and I've told you how to do everything you requested.

I have turned on the option to collapse each sidebar table, which is a total of 4, yet only the first one collapses. Why is that?

[Brian]

Sept 28, 2016 4:53:25 GMT -8 trooperneedshelp said:

I have turned on the option to collapse each sidebar table, which is a total of 4, yet only the first one collapses. Why is that?

A lot of your HTML seems to be messed up which is causing the browser to attempt to correct it and ultimately ruin the layout of the sidebar.

In the first container some of your bold and italic tags are closing in the incorrect order. Multiple opening HTML tags need to close in the opposite order that they were opened.

<b><i>Like this</i></b>

I would also recommend changing all of your tags in each container to lowercase. There's no real reason to capitalize them these days.

[Teg]

Is there a way to put the shoutbox into the "content" area of the sidebar redux? if not, is there a fix for this?

[Brian]

Oct 9, 2016 8:42:05 GMT -8 Teg said:

Is there a way to put the shoutbox into the "content" area of the sidebar redux? if not, is there a fix for this?

You could use the Move Shoutbox script and place the shoutbox movement div into the header/footer section of the sidebar plugin.

[Teg]

Oct 9, 2016 8:45:01 GMT -8 Brian said:

Oct 9, 2016 8:42:05 GMT -8 Teg said:

Is there a way to put the shoutbox into the "content" area of the sidebar redux? if not, is there a fix for this?

You could use the Move Shoutbox script and place the shoutbox movement div into the header/footer section of the sidebar plugin.

Thanks Brian, I'll try that. Appreciate the quick response.

[Teg]

Sorry for the double post, but will that work if I have multiple parts to the sidebar. Like sections, I'd want that in the very last section.

EDIT: I figured that part out, but i'd like to remove the "Title Bar" that comes with the shoutbox, not the sidebar plugin itself.

[Brian]

Oct 9, 2016 8:47:28 GMT -8 Teg said:

Sorry for the double post, but will that work if I have multiple parts to the sidebar. Like sections, I'd want that in the very last section.

I'm not sure I follow. Are you trying to place the shoutbox in the sidebar itself or are you trying to place the shoutbox in the center of the forum?

[Teg]

Hey, Brian. I figured that part out. What i'd like to do is remove the shoutbox title so that only the title of the section in the plugin shows.

Additionally, each section is set to collapsible and type 1 with title bar and all, but they don't collapse

hogex.boards.net

[Brian]

You'd need to remove the title bar from the shoutbox template itself to prevent it from showing in the sidebar.

Collapsible containers will only work if you have an ID specified for each container as the page needs a way to identify each container you're attempting to collapse in order to save your preferences to your browser.

[Teg]

DUH! I feel so stupid. Please forgive my lack of common sense. I've been gone for a while haha
Brian, real quick though, is it possible to make it so that the side bar isn't all the way at the edge of the screen. I'd like the padding to be the same on both sides of the browser's window.

[Brian]

You could try adding padding to #sidebarr-wrapper. Any further visual styling is down to the customization of your theme at this point as the theme determines how the sidebar appears, not the other way around.

One thing I'd like to address: In Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper the $[footer] variable is inside of its own div element. This is causing the sidebar HTML to render incorrectly as it's attempting to close the table elements while the div is still open. I would recommend removing the div around that variable.