Trash XenPorta Sidebar

silence · Oct 12, 2013

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Trash XenPorta Sidebar - How to dump XenPorta sidebar in favor of Widget Framework

XenPorta is a widely-used addon that is essential for those who want a complete article management system for XF. However, it comes with an annoying sidebar feature that is completely overshadowed by Widget Framework.

This tutorial will tell you how to dump that sidebar feature completely in favor of Widget Framework.

Now this is pretty easy to do, and requires zero changes to any code. All this requires is changing a few options in the Admin Control Panel.
So let's begin

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AyKuT · Oct 15, 2013

After I trashed all XenPorta sidebar widgets and activated Widget Framework, number of queries for home page increased from 11 to 32. Have you faced similar result?

silence · Oct 15, 2013

AyKuT said:
After I trashed all XenPorta sidebar widgets and activated Widget Framework, number of queries for home page increased from 11 to 32. Have you faced similar result?

Nope I have less than 10 queries on my homepage with the WF sidebar. How many queries do you have on your forum main page?

Degrinch · Oct 24, 2013

Love the last Code box! Got a good chuckle out of that.

Degrinch · Oct 24, 2013

Perhaps I can get some assistance in this thread, similar conversation pertaining to the bd widget framework addon... I have an issue with the widgets displaying without impacting the template layout. I am current on all aspects (xen and the widget framework addon).

silence · Oct 24, 2013

Degrinch said:
Perhaps I can get some assistance in this thread, similar conversation pertaining to the bd widget framework addon... I have an issue with the widgets displaying without impacting the template layout. I am current on all aspects (xen and the widget framework addon).

I'm confused. What's the issue?

Degrinch · Oct 24, 2013

Whats to be confused about?

When I create a widget, in any area of my website, the theme display is altered (overlaps other menus, widgets, or the widget fails to display properly.

An example: would be when I create a small ad widget within the a node display, it does not expand the node frame to display the widget properly. This is the case regardless of the theme I use.

Any suggestions?

silence · Oct 24, 2013

Degrinch said:
Whats to be confused about?

When I create a widget, in any area of my website, the theme display is altered (overlaps other menus, widgets, or the widget fails to display properly.

An example: would be when I create a small ad widget within the a node display, it does not expand the node frame to display the widget properly. This is the case regardless of the theme I use.

Any suggestions?

Can you link me to the issue, so I can see what can be done, please?

Degrinch · Oct 24, 2013

Is there a time period I need wait for some sort of cache update when creating a new widget? I have left these active for a bit to see if this is the case, but there is no change.

silence · Oct 24, 2013

Degrinch said:
Is there a time period I need wait for some sort of cache update when creating a new widget? I have left these active for a bit to see if this is the case, but there is no change.

Not usually.

Degrinch · Oct 24, 2013

Ok... wtf? Now it's showing properly. I deactivated and then re activated the plugin and it seems to be ok now. I had to set up new widgets, the old ones wouldn't show up. But it appears to be working . . .

thunderup · May 15, 2014

Is this working / useful in XF1.3.2 with the latest version of XenPorta?

@silence

silence · May 28, 2014

toodlez said:
Is this working / useful in XF1.3.2 with the latest version of XenPorta?

@silence

It should be!

NateRoberts · Aug 11, 2014

is there a way to have the widgets appear in positions other than sidebar? (i.e Top-Right).

JacquiiDesigns · Oct 29, 2014

Nvkodde said:
is there a way to have the widgets appear in positions other than sidebar? (i.e Top-Right).

Good question. How to position or maybe style the css so it's positioned in top-right instead of the sidebar?
Thanks,

J.

directodigital · Jun 11, 2016

Trying to dump xenPorta but I get this error when I follow your guide

Position:
Invalid position specified: EWRporta_ArticleView. The position must be one of three types: "all", "template_name" or "hook:hook_name".

silence · Jun 13, 2016

directodigital said:
Trying to dump xenPorta but I get this error when I follow your guide

Position:
Invalid position specified: EWRporta_ArticleView. The position must be one of three types: "all", "template_name" or "hook:hook_name".

That may mean the template doesn't exist. If you are using xenporta2 the steps here may be slightly different. You would have to find the template names yourself.

Commodore · Jan 29, 2017

I am using xenporta 2. Can anyone CONFIRM that these procedures work as listed ??

Commodore · Jan 29, 2017

POSITION: EWRporta_ArticleView, EWRporta_Portal, forum_list

This does not work in xenporta 2.

Here is the ERROR popup window:

Position:
Invalid position specified: EWRporta_ArticleView. The position must be one of three types: "all", "template_name" or "hook:hook_name".

Did Jaxel change this so we couldn't eliminate his sidebar???

Commodore · Jan 29, 2017

When I select ALL, it works on all pages EXCEPT THE MAIN PAGE!!

What's the solution??

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