Technical Support

@julian 😛 If you view his avatar in a new tab, he has a cool tattoo. 😄

It is loggedIn everywhere now. https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/1900

@psychobunny with regards to your suggestions on stripping out features, I'll have the devs take a look at the disabling options you pointed out.

Integrating with my application:

At this stage, we're doing development in-house but of course if we run into issues I will shoot you guys an email. As for the theme design, I will definitely keep @trevor in mind. I have looked at his work and it does in fact looks very nice.

I really appreciate you taking the time to reply to me and give me your advice on where to start looking; it is very appreciated.

Regards

Hello NodeBB users. Since I've chosen NodeBB to replace my current free hosted and created forum I need to create the custom theme that will go with it.
Since it's a graphic community we have some features needed and that's why I've taken a look at plugins and the API to see if NodeBB is ready to answer our problematic. Mostly it's the case and the modular aspect is very appreciable.

So first question, how to do a child theme ? I've the quickstart theme and it seems that only importing the less of another theme do the job. (Vanilla in that case). But for instance if I want to use Lavander that is a lot more developed is that the same way ?
Isn't that a bit ugly cause I assume it will be CSS replacement over imported CSS with new one too.
Is there a best way to do it ?

Is a theme capable of interacting on templates and add features to the control panel like a plugin. For instance I absolutely need the sub category feature, because my forum today use a structure like :

So there's at least 3 levels needed and I'll need to figure out if there's a way to do so since it doesn't seem implemented in the actual NodeBB version.

Is it possible to add a new navigation, I think it's possible with a widget it doesn't seem like there's an existing one I might take a look on this.

I think this is not theme related so I'll stop here but these are the direct questions I have.
Also I doesn't seems that this forum have a support category, I think it could be nice to add one in order to filter actual themes from requests/question ect... (same for plugins).

@julian Believe it or not, but I've never went there before for CSS reference, but I'll read up on it further here since of course they are the "authority" in web standards.

Could it have something to do with the custom-homepage plugin overriding the home.tpl template?

Perhaps, but I'm not totally sure.

The way I place widgets is I just take whatever is a widget template and copy and paste it into one of the main theme templates such as topic.tpl or category.tpl.

So for example, the popular tags widget (which I have not used yet but will soon), looks like this.

<!-- BEGIN tags -->
<a href="{relative_path}/tags/{tags.value}" class="pull-left">
<h4>
<span class="label label-info">{tags.value}</span>
<small>x</small><span class="tag-topic-count">{tags.score}</span>
</h4>
</a>
<!-- END tags -->

I take that and place it somewhere (anywhere) I want it to render in a template.

-_-

Another example is using the widget-area as shown here using the "active users" widget (this is for category.tpl);

Screen Shot 2014-07-23 at 3.51.41 AM.png

And the HTML is as simple as this;

<div class="category-active-users">
<div widget-area="sidebar"></div>
</div>

Whatever is placed in widget area named "Sidebar" in the ACP, is what will render here. For this I have simply used the "Active Users" widget block as shown below.

Screen Shot 2014-07-23 at 3.54.20 AM.png

All in all, its a matter of preference of how you want to do things.

@a_5mith Me too ... 😝

@helltux is currect, it is for Right-to-left languages, like Persian, Arabic, etc. Those CSS rules are not applied to regular languages. I believe it specifically looks for a data-rtl attribute in the body tag.

@a_5mith Thanks for your advice : )

I often get confused with those names. Lavender good in many ways compared to Vanilla. Especially the recent update made it better.

thank you all!

@baris @psychobunny

@psychobunny

@psychobunny said:

Maybe we can try something like that in the next theme. One of our clients has a theme with the buttons on the right side like this: http://i.imgur.com/2SvxrXz.png and the vanilla theme has overall bigger vote buttons. Maybe a bit of CSS magic in the custom CSS editor could move the buttons below your avatar without much fuss

Wow I must say the buttons on the right look great

Does anyone know how I'd go about doing this on the home page in the category list? I'm not much of a fan of the recent posts.

I've tried using <!-- IF @first --> to get the last updated post/topic but it still shows them all.

Thanks, Ben.

Edit, the following code shows first for each post, meaning @first isn't working for some reason (Opened up an issue😞

Thanks @psychobunny
😄

@julian ah ok. The last time i tried it didn't change the size. That was a week or so ago though.