Sidebar vB-4 'Integration'

**Mondi** · April 6, 2010

First of all - VaultWiki simply rocks!

[So, got that out of my system...]

Question: Is it possible to add sidebar(s) to Wiki pages? Many - if not all pages on my site feature a sidebar. To keep 'look 'n feel' consistent I'd like the Wiki pages to feature at least one of them, too.

Would be as huge plus for us.

Cheers!

**Mokonzi** · April 6, 2010

Are you using vbAdvanced? If so, it's possible to integrate them I've done so myself before vB4 came out.

**Mondi** · April 6, 2010

Nope - ditched that after upgrading to vB4+CMS.

I am aware I used the vBAdvanced term 'Integration' here....

Can sidebars be added without use of vBAdvanced CMPS? If not, I may have to look for an alternative method or hold-off until this becomes a VW feature. Happy to wait knowing 'something' along these lines may be coming....

Thanks for the quick reply mate!

**pegasus** · April 6, 2010

As far as I can tell, the only vBulletin 4 pages that can have sidebars by default are the forum home page, and CMS pages. Forums, threads, calendars, profiles, groups, etc. do not.

**bigtree** · April 7, 2010

The Sidebar and the ability to have thread banners are very important with all pages of vb4. If not, this will prevent me from keeping it if I find another wiki option.

**pegasus** · April 7, 2010

As I said, vBulletin 4 doesn't even have a sidebar for all pages. Unless there's an option somewhere that I'm missing, I can't really do anything about this in the wiki, or it won't work as you're hoping.

I've not even heard of thread banners. Where in vBulletin's options can I turn this on? Where in the SHOWTHREAD template is the code for it?

**Storyteller** · April 7, 2010

There is an Addon over on vbulletin.org which will display the Sidebar everywhere in the forum: EveryWhere Sidebar (ESB)
Also it's possible to turn on the Addon on custom pages. The required template-edits are in the Addon-description. I test this option on a custom page and it works. Perhaps it's possible to put the code in the article-template?
The only thing that's not possible in the moment is to specify which blocks are shown on which sides. The selected blocks are shown on all pages.

**pegasus** · April 7, 2010

If this is an addon then it's up to the community to come up with the necessary integration. As Storyteller mentioned, it's already possible to do with a template edit.

Integration with addons is beyond the scope of VaultWiki itself. As a general rule, the only changes we make for other addons are if another addon throws an error in VaultWiki.