Sidebar Redux

[Silvana]

Apr 10, 2017 15:20:44 GMT -8 Brian said:

Silvana :

In Plugins > Manage the checkbox for the Sidebar Redux plugin is unchecked.

In addition, when you open the plugin's settings on that same page you do not have the Enabled checkbox ticked for either sidebar in the Left Sidebar or Right Sidebar tabs of the plugin's settings which would cause them not to show even with the plugin enabled.

Thanks, but I got it to work shortly after and just disabled them for now. Everything's all good now. 

[tianadiezja]

I'm wondering if this can be used to allow people to quickly swap between accounts on the forum. Can it?

If so, how?

[Adrian]

Feb 28, 2017 9:03:34 GMT -8 Brian said:

Feb 28, 2017 5:54:28 GMT -8 Adrian said:

Hey there Brian,

Is there a way to mod the plugin to have start where the categories start instead of below the navigation tree? I don't want to shrink the entire forum overall to have it somewhat viewable

The sidebars should already start where your categories start unless you have other plugins that add content before your categories, content in your forum's headers, or content after the $[header] variable in the Forum Wrapper layout template (such as the shoutbox) since the HTML that produces the sidebars is located in your forum's headers and footers.

There's no way to prevent the plugin from shrinking the forum while maintaining the position of the sidebars. If your forum's width is too small because of them the solution is to increase the forum width by however many pixels were lost with their addition (this should be the width of the left sidebar and right sidebar combined).

Ok that's fine on the width part but I have the shoudbox at the top above the categories and planning to put a picture above the shoutbox too so can the sidebars start after the shoutbox?

[Brian]

Apr 20, 2017 16:21:10 GMT -8 tianadiezja said:

I'm wondering if this can be used to allow people to quickly swap between accounts on the forum. Can it?

If so, how?

The sidebars are just containers for HTML. They don't add any actual forum functionality.

You can't add an account switcher on the page itself (and doing so would be dangerous since the page isn't using SSL) but you can provide a link to the Switch User page found by clicking the icon in the bottom right bar.

[Brian]

Apr 21, 2017 15:45:07 GMT -8 Adrian said:

Ok that's fine on the width part but I have the shoudbox at the top above the categories and planning to put a picture above the shoutbox too so can the sidebars start after the shoutbox?

If you want the shoutbox to appear above the sidebars it either needs to come before the $[header] variable in Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper or you need to move it after the page loads using Javascript.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.shoutbox').insertBefore('#sidebarr-wrapper');
});
</script>

[Adrian]

ok gotcha

Edit: Ok it works fine but just sucks the ads are below the shoutbox.

Also that code where does it go exactly? headers? templates?

[Adrian]

Bump in case if you didn't see the edit Brian.

[Brian]

Apr 24, 2017 12:52:31 GMT -8 Adrian said:

Bump in case if you didn't see the edit Brian.

Thanks. Didn't see your edit since bookmark notifications are only produced by replies.

Since the shoutbox appears on all pages I would recommend placing the code in your forum's global header.

[Adrian]

Ok gotcha

[Monado Boi]

Is there a way to add polls to the sidebar?

[Brian]

May 6, 2017 1:48:00 GMT -8 Monado Boi said:

Is there a way to add polls to the sidebar?

Not polls created within your forum's threads since there's no way to make those show on every page of the forum, but if you have a widget from another site like StrawPoll or something you can add that to the sidebar.

[Monado Boi]

May 7, 2017 7:59:07 GMT -8 Brian said:

May 6, 2017 1:48:00 GMT -8 Monado Boi said:

Is there a way to add polls to the sidebar?

Not polls created within your forum's threads since there's no way to make those show on every page of the forum, but if you have a widget from another site like StrawPoll or something you can add that to the sidebar.

Alright thanks

[Monado Boi]

Also how do you put the Shoutbox below the sidebars and categories but above the ads and footer?

[Brian]

May 30, 2017 10:06:32 GMT -8 Monado Boi said:

Also how do you put the Shoutbox below the sidebars and categories but above the ads and footer?

This question doesn't have anything to do with my plugin at all, but...

The position of the shoutbox is determined by wherever the $[shoutbox] variable is placed in Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper. In the default layout the shoutbox is already located below your categories and above the bottom ad and footer.

[courelli]

Hey Brian,

Is there a way to make the categories that come after the bottom end of the sidebar expand back to full size, instead of having this awkward gap?

Here's my group's forum, if you'd like to take a look.

socialliberal.proboards.com/

Thanks!