nodebb-theme-material v2.0 published

[psychobunny]

@Master-Antonio

Hi, just wanted to note a few things:

1. @pichalite is actually one of our best themers in this community and he works very hard to get fixes/upgrades for his theme done in a timely fashion. That said...

2. He can't account for compatibility for every single plugin out there... That's a multiple person job and he is of course contributing this for free as open source. It's unfair to expect so much from one person.

3. The best bet to resolve this issue is to register on GitHub, and ask if the plugin author can make a fork to work with Material. You can do this here: https://github.com/wktang/nodebb-plugin-category-sort-by-votes/issues

My three cents

[Master-Antonio]

@psychobunny Already did.
I said only to search to add the compatibility with the most used plugin ....

[Master-Antonio]

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[PitaJ]

@Master-Antonio What's the address of your site? I'll see if I can cook up some custom CSS for this

[Master-Antonio]

@pichalite A advice.
The navbar is empty, will be fantastic if you move the logo in center, only the logo, the site title remains on left.
For me will be better.
The logo is bugged, i wrote the issue on github.
I would do a little modification.
The row of the body for me is too high .
I will change

.row {
margin-left: -15px;
margin-right: -15px;
}

to

.row {
margin-left: -15px;
margin-right: -15px;
margin-top: 26px;
}

in this way for me is most cleaner.

[pichalite]

@Master-Antonio said in nodebb-theme-material v2.0 published:

@pichalite Because you are developing a theme , and i think that is a goal to develop a theme compatible with other plugins, because a theme without at least compatibility with the most used plugin is completely useless because the strength of nodebb is extensibility.
It would be common sense.
And if you believe that the customers of your theme will write every bug in every dist of github in every plugin, you are wrong.
Is not compatible also with the youtube plugin, i think it is a plugin installed in every forum.
Now i wrote a issue for the plugin of youtube .... i was wrong dist on youtube.

first of all it's common sense not to demand from open source items you get for free. I don't have any goals to make the theme compatible with every single plugin out there.

If you think the theme is useless, you are welcome not to use it.

I don't have any "customers" for my theme. If people like it, they use it for free...

what makes you think nodebb-plugin-category-sort-by-votes is most used plugin... where did you get that information from?

[Master-Antonio]

@pichalite I say example the youtube plugin .

[pichalite]

@Master-Antonio said in nodebb-theme-material v2.0 published:

in this way for me is most cleaner.

cleaner for you doesn't make it apply for every one. Fork the theme, make modifications however you like and maintain it yourself as a separate repository.

[PitaJ]

@Master-Antonio

.header-inner .logo .forum-logo {
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translateX(-50%);
}

[Master-Antonio]

@pichalite To fix the logo.

.header-inner .logo .forum-logo {
width: 98px;
float: left;
height: 100%;
}

[pichalite]

@Master-Antonio yeah good job and good luck.

[Master-Antonio]

@pichalite Other fix in mobile.
@media (max-width: 768px){
.header-inner .logo .forum-logo {
visibility: hidden;
}
body #content {
padding: -1px -1px;
}
}

In the mobile to fix this issues
https://github.com/pichalite/nodebb-theme-material/issues/18
or hide the title or hide the logo.

The other modification is a little space from category to limit.
I set -1 and -1 because in this way does not read it, but simply you can delete the propriety.

[pichalite]

stop mentioning me... as I said... fork the theme and do whatever you want. None of this is going to make it to the theme from my side.

[TimP4w]

@pichalite I really loved your theme, it is amazing!
I just have a question: how can I add the user cards feature to it?

I really like this thing, but I'm not very good with front-end ant themes.
If you could just tell me where to look or which files do I have to modify.

Thank you very much in advance.

[pichalite]

@TimP4w check how persona is doing it and replicate it. If you can't do it yourself, contact [email protected] and they can do it for you for a fee.

[AOKP]

Thanks a lot for your efforts @pichalite. It has been a month since I use it on one of my forums and me and the users love it.

Thanks a lot for that!

A question about updates though. What do you do? Update on each stable release or also master update?

In the latest master some bugs appeared and before bugging you with them, I rather wanted to ask how you handle it anyway.

[pichalite]

@AOKP said in nodebb-theme-material v2.0 published:

It has been a month since I use it on one of my forums and me and the users love it.

Good to hear people liking the theme.

Thanks a lot for that!

You are welcome.

Usually I only release theme versions for stable releases. Some times I update the theme for master but keep the changes in a separate branch and then merge it in after a stable version is released.

So far I have been able to update the theme within a week of a stable version release. Hope to continue that but I cannot guarantee for future that I will be able to update it within a week. It depends on how much time I have to work on the theme.

There is a branch on the theme's repo with updates for master until 2 days ago. You can give that a try.

[Tebo]

Is it possible/generally acceptable to create and maintain "plugins" to modify specific elements of a theme as opposed to forking?

[pichalite]

@Tebo I would recommend creating a child theme which allows you to only provide the templates you want to modify.

[Bri]

Hey @pichalite Thanks for the theme! After extensive usage, I was wondering, is there a way to get to the top of a thread easily? More specifically, the options for to sub / unsub from a thread is only at the top, so I was wondering / requesting for a way to access these options closer to the bottom: