I dont have any built in feature to move the sidebar over, but if your theme does it, then yes.
And no, it wouldn't work like that for articles. It's designed to show threads from all of your forums in one flow.
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[MC] Forum Layouts [Paid] 1.3.2
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I dont have any built in feature to move the sidebar over, but if your theme does it, then yes.
And no, it wouldn't work like that for articles. It's designed to show threads from all of your forums in one flow.
Agh, what a shame. It could have been a great contribution to my forum.
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Oh actually it’s great! Bought it, thanks.
First thing I did, I do now to ensure addons are coded well with no security issues, put it through Claude Coding. I love that it returned A-OK, no security issues, no performance issues. It picked up the raw SQL getCardTopicIds() but you explain that in comments as to why. Thank you for amazing work Matt. Look forward to playing around with this.
Ok, big problem. In a private forum, where you should only be allowed to see your own threads, with this addon enabled, you can see all users threads. You can't see the content, but you can see the thread titles, when you should only be allowed to see your own threads.
May be related to (got a lot of these errors whilst enabled):
getAllStickiesGroupedByForum() at line 275: $forumTitle = $thread->Forum->Node->title;
assumes all Forum -> Node chain have a record, where something could be null.
I tracked down the bad data at my end, noting this could still be an issue in the future for anyone, especially larger forums.
Code:
Server error log
ErrorException: Template error: [E_WARNING] Attempt to read property "title" on null src/addons/MC/ForumLayouts/Repository/Thread.php:275
Generated by: anthony May 25, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stack trace
#0 src/addons/MC/ForumLayouts/Repository/Thread.php(275): XF\Template\Templater->handleTemplateError(2, '[E_WARNING] Att...', '/home/myptsd/pu...', 275)
#1 src/addons/MC/ForumLayouts/Option/FeaturedStickies.php(15): MC\ForumLayouts\Repository\Thread->getAllStickiesGroupedByForum()
#2 src/XF/Entity/Option.php(87): MC\ForumLayouts\Option\FeaturedStickies::renderOption(Object(XF\Entity\Option), Array)
#3 src/XF/Template/Templater.php(1300): XF\Entity\Option->renderDisplayCallback(Array)
#4 internal_data/code_cache/templates/l1/s0/admin/option_macros.php(206): XF\Template\Templater->method(Object(XF\Entity\Option), 'renderDisplayCa...', Array)
#5 src/XF/Template/Templater.php(933): XF\Template\Templater->{closure}(Object(SV\StandardLib\XF\Template\Templater), Array, NULL)
#6 internal_data/code_cache/templates/l1/s0/admin/mc_forumlayouts_option_macros.php(62): XF\Template\Templater->callMacro('option_macros', 'option_row', Array, Array)
#7 src/XF/Template/Templater.php(933): XF\Template\Templater->{closure}(Object(SV\StandardLib\XF\Template\Templater), Array, NULL)
#8 internal_data/code_cache/templates/l1/s0/admin/option_list.php(77): XF\Template\Templater->callMacro('mc_forumlayouts...', 'option_form_blo...', Array, Array)
#9 src/XF/Template/Templater.php(1818): XF\Template\Templater->{closure}(Object(SV\StandardLib\XF\Template\Templater), Array, NULL)
#10 src/XF/Template/Template.php(24): XF\Template\Templater->renderTemplate('option_list', Array)
#11 src/XF/Mvc/Renderer/Html.php(50): XF\Template\Template->render()
#12 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(471): XF\Mvc\Renderer\Html->renderView('XF:Option\\Listi...', 'admin:option_li...', Array)
#13 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(453): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->renderView(Object(XF\Mvc\Renderer\Html), Object(XF\Mvc\Reply\View))
#14 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(412): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->renderReply(Object(XF\Mvc\Renderer\Html), Object(XF\Mvc\Reply\View))
#15 src/XF/Mvc/Dispatcher.php(66): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->render(Object(XF\Mvc\Reply\View), 'html')
#16 src/XF/App.php(2824): XF\Mvc\Dispatcher->run()
#17 src/XF.php(814): XF\App->run()
#18 admin.php(15): XF::runApp('XF\\Admin\\App')
#19 {main}
Request state
array(4) {
["url"] => string(41) "/admin.php?options/groups/mcForumLayouts/"
["referrer"] => string(63) "https://www.myptsd.com/admin.php?options/groups/mcForumLayouts/"
["_GET"] => array(1) {
["options/groups/mcForumLayouts/"] => string(0) ""
}
["_POST"] => array(0) {
}
}getAllStickiesGroupedByForum() at line 275: $forumTitle = $thread->Forum->Node->title;
assumes all Forum -> Node chain have a record, where something could be null.
Code:
From:
foreach ($finder->fetch() as $thread)
{
/** @var ThreadEntity $thread */
$forumTitle = $thread->Forum->Node->title;
To possibly:
foreach ($finder->fetch() as $thread)
{
/** @var ThreadEntity $thread */
if (!$thread->Forum || !$thread->Forum->Node)
{
continue;
}
$forumTitle = $thread->Forum->Node->title;I tracked down the bad data at my end, noting this could still be an issue in the future for anyone, especially larger forums.
Code:
SELECT t.thread_id, t.title, t.node_id
FROM xf_thread t
LEFT JOIN xf_forum f ON f.node_id = t.node_id
LEFT JOIN xf_node n ON n.node_id = t.node_id
WHERE t.sticky = 1
AND t.discussion_state = 'visible'
AND (f.node_id IS NULL OR n.node_id IS NULL);{/code]
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Thanks Matt.
I went ahead and verified you. Thanks for letting me know you didn't receive the verification email.
Yeah, I see it now. I'll have to re-order the conditionals, that's my mistake! I'll have that patched for the next update.
For now, you can apply this temporarily.
Code:
.mc-fl-container .block-outer
{
display: none;
}Thank you!!
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