Sidebar Redux

[? guy]

how do i add a video into one of my sidebars?

getwiththebeat.boards.net/

[Brian]

Oct 18, 2016 17:45:50 GMT -8 ? guy said:

how do i add a video into one of my sidebars?

Look for either an Embed or Share option on the site you're viewing the video on. One of these should contain some HTML code that you can place in one of your sidebar containers to make the video appear there.

For example, YouTube has iframe HTML you can find when clicking on the Share button below its videos and clicking on the Embed option.

[Chrissiest Chris]

Is there a possibility to have sort of a "daily image" in a sidebar, that changes automatically every 24 hours? Like this:

Day 1:



Day 2:



There's over 100 of these and I'm aware I'd have to upload every single one myself, I'm fine with that. But is this possible?

[pinder]

Mar 4, 2015 10:56:57 GMT -8 Brian said:

Mar 4, 2015 10:49:34 GMT -8 kokiri said:

How can I insert the current user avatar, username and money amount?

I'm not familiar with the Monetary System plugin's variables so I wouldn't be able to tell you how to get the money amount, but you can use this in your global header to get the username and avatar.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.insert-username').html(pb.data('user').name);
$('.insert-avatar').addClass('avatar').html(pb.data('user').avatar);
});
</script>

Then you'd use the following two codes wherever you want them to show.

<span class="insert-username"></span>

<div class="insert-avatar"></div>

Hi Brian  , I found part of what I needed on page 87 and 101 of this thread which I quoted above, but I'm still not sure or familiar as to how I to get the other parts I need.

How would I get the the log in/register & out link option to appear in your sidebar like it does in the Welcome header at the top right corner of the board? 

Thank you so much for your time and plug in, and I'll keep looking through the thread for my answer because I'm sure it's somewhere.

Pinder

P.S. Will support a plug-in or add on so $[user] codes will work in Sidebar Redux because I love having a clean forum wrapper this plug-in provides.  

[Brian]

Nov 19, 2016 19:27:57 GMT -8 pinder said:

Hi Brian  , I found part of what I needed on page 87 and 101 of this thread which I quoted above, but I'm still not sure or familiar as to how I to get the other parts I need.

One thing you can do is create your ideal container in your Forum Wrapper template, then use Javascript to move that into your sidebar. That's what I usually recommend now for anyone who wants to create a sidebar container that needs to reference user information. The login links are also generated by the Forum Wrapper template so you can use those as well in that case.

Nov 19, 2016 19:27:57 GMT -8 pinder said:

P.S. Will support a plug-in or add on so $[user] codes will work in Sidebar Redux because I love having a clean forum wrapper this plug-in provides.  

This wouldn't be possible without the use of the layout templates. Plugins can only reference data that exists on the page or that came from the plugin itself. The contents of the $[current_user] variable are specific to the layout templates so the plugin has no way to obtain them unless they're already on the page.

[Brian]

Nov 19, 2016 3:09:26 GMT -8 Chrissiest Chris said:

Is there a possibility to have sort of a "daily image" in a sidebar, that changes automatically every 24 hours? Like this:

Day 1:

i.imgur.com/UgqbDjzh.jpg

Day 2:

i.imgur.com/aa6ZoQzh.jpg

There's over 100 of these and I'm aware I'd have to upload every single one myself, I'm fine with that. But is this possible?

Yes. Since the sidebar accepts HTML that can be done through the use of a Javascript code which you could then insert into one of your sidebar containers.

However that's not something that would be built into the sidebar plugin itself as it serves solely as the container for your content, not the controller for the content itself.

[pinder]

Nov 20, 2016 9:16:43 GMT -8 Brian said:

One thing you can do is create your ideal container in your Forum Wrapper template, then use Javascript to move that into your sidebar. That's what I usually recommend now for anyone who wants to create a sidebar container that needs to reference user information. The login links are also generated by the Forum Wrapper template so you can use those as well in that case.

Okay, so either way I'm playing with the forum wrapper that I can handel. CCS and HTML of the board I'm familiar with, Javascript not so much, I am very much a novice at this and currently using w3schools to learn the little things. What would this Javascript code look like to move Welcome user register/log in/out, it to the plug in? And would I be having to place, or add that javascript code to the global header like I did when I used the code you gave on page 101?



Thank you so much for your time,
Pinder

[Brian]

Nov 20, 2016 10:19:04 GMT -8 pinder said:

Okay, so either way I'm playing with the forum wrapper that I can handel. CCS and HTML of the board I'm familiar with, Javascript not so much, I am very much a novice at this and currently using w3schools to learn the little things. What would this Javascript code look like to move Welcome user register/log in/out, it to the plug in? And would I be having to place, or add that javascript code to the global header like I did when I used the code you gave on page 101?



Thank you so much for your time,
Pinder

Basically you'd be placing all of your sidebar content inside of an element with an ID in your Forum Wrapper template. The ID can be whatever you want, so long as it's composed only of letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores (no spaces). For example:

<div id="your-id-here">

Your content here

</div>

Once you've finished adding your content to this element you can use this to move it into your sidebar:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#your-placeholder-id').append($('#your-id-here'));
});
</script>

In the sidebar plugin you'll either need to add an element with the placeholder ID into one of your containers, like so:

<div id="your-placeholder-id"></div>

Or you can create a Style 3 container and give it an ID that matches your placeholder ID.

[pinder]

Thank you so very much, sorry if you had to chew your cabbage twice, I remember reading that several times before in this thread but I didn't log it as "Important for later". Thank you very much Brian for your time.

Cheers Brian,
Pinder

[Chrissiest Chris]

How do I make the bar only appear on the home page but no others? Or the home page and on the thread list page within board, but not in the threads, or profiles etc.

[Brian]

Nov 23, 2016 12:20:42 GMT -8 Chrissiest Chris said:

How do I make the bar only appear on the home page but no others? Or the home page and on the thread list page within board, but not in the threads, or profiles etc.

For homepage only please refer to the code in the spoiler at the end of the first post in the thread:

support.proboards.com/post/5096550

To make it show on both the homepage and thread list change this line:

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

To this:

if(pb.data('route').name != "home" && pb.data('route').name != "board") {

[Chrissiest Chris]

Ah, thank you

[yukishido]

Two questions:

1) How do I update this plugin without losing the work in an older version? (Using 1.3.1 and this questions seems silly simple.... >.>)

and

2) Is there a way to select which pages for this plugin to either show up on or completely hide on? I want to make some custom pages but I am thinking that the side bar shouldn't be on those pages.


BTW really love this plugin, use it on all my sites.

[Brian]

Nov 25, 2016 13:42:44 GMT -8 yukishido said:

1) How do I update this plugin without losing the work in an older version? (Using 1.3.1 and this questions seems silly simple.... >.>)

If you wish to update the plugin to the most recent version all you have to do is navigate to the plugin library from your admin area and install it again from there. Your forum will then ask if you want to import your settings from the previous version.

Note that both the old and new version will remain installed on your forum, so you'll immediately want to go back to Plugins > Manage and uncheck the old version to disable it as soon as you do this.

Nov 25, 2016 13:42:44 GMT -8 yukishido said:

2) Is there a way to select which pages for this plugin to either show up on or completely hide on? I want to make some custom pages but I am thinking that the side bar shouldn't be on those pages.

There's a homepage-only code in the first post of this thread, but for custom pages you'll need to modify the if statement in that code to check if you're on a custom page instead of the home page. This can be done by changing this line:

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

To this:

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

Nov 25, 2016 13:42:44 GMT -8 yukishido said:

BTW really love this plugin, use it on all my sites.

Thanks! I appreciate it.

[Mandoli]

I don't know if this was asked before (so excuse me if it was already)...

I installed this on my forum, and the top container looks like it was done in Trebuchet font. It also appears to be spaced out essay-style. Any reason on why this is the case? And how do I fix that? Thanks.