[nodebb-plugin-category-info] Category Info / Masonry

trevor

Niceeeeeeeeee. I like the mason. I wanted to do it like this. Awesome job.

StuartH

@pyschobunny that looks great when do you sleep as you keep putting out new plugins and other stuff?

psychobunny

I should be sleeping now but those damn desktop notifications keep waking me up

StuartH

I should be sleeping now but those damn desktop notifications keep waking me up
@pyschobunny
:D:D:D
who's idea was that then?

StuartH

Would we be able to adjust the size of these categories boxes as well in the admin panel? what about having sub cats 1/2 size directly under the bigger cat boxes?

psychobunny

one day @StuartH, hold your horses

StuartH

But I want it all NOW

StuartH

Seriously you guys must live, eat, and sleep nodebb atm, I doff my cap to you all.

trevor

/home/c/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-category-info/library.js:31
                custom_routes.templates.push({
                                        ^
TypeError: Cannot call method 'push' of undefined
    at /home/c/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-category-info/library.js:31:27
    at /home/c/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:229:13
    at /home/c/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:116:25
    at /home/c/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:24:16
    at /home/c/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:226:17
    at /home/c/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:513:34
    at /home/c/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-category-info/library.js:20:4
    at fs.js:266:14
    at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)

Didn't work.

psychobunny

hey @trevor, you'll need this commit at minimum for this to work

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GitHub (github.com)

trevor

You know, I was thinking, how would you make a category with more than two replies in it, NOT show on the page? You'd like it to hide certain categories from showing posts and others to show them to have that effect in your screenshot. I was thinking about how I have them now, manipulating the class to force a class based on category ID. >.< I am doing this now, so we'll see how it goes.

trevor

Okay I've figured out a way to do it without using the plugin (no need for the masonry.js), since I prefer hardcoding things, it'll be pure CSS. But, the plugin has given me the inspiration to do this, so thanks a bunch @psychobunny.

psychobunny

You know, I was thinking, how would you make a category with more than two replies in it, NOT show on the page? You'd like it to hide certain categories from showing posts and others to show them to have that effect in your screenshot. I was thinking about how I have them now, manipulating the class to force a class based on category ID. >.< I am doing this now, so we'll see how it goes.

in the future I'd like to add the ability to select how many replies get shown per category block (ah, in fact, I should have done that today since I was in and around that code >< )

you can use the trick I did with the metro tiles plugin - http://starheartcoin.com/

.home .category-block:nth-child(3n+0) .category-box:last-child {
	display: none;
}

to select certain blocks and show less?

trevor

Oh yes, that 's quite a hack there.

psychobunny

haha yeah. you know what, I'll add the functionality properly right now

psychobunny

alrighty, its in, update to latest (98a646fa62b4c5b8b7493bc9206d32733f8569a4)

trevor

Dang, I just saw the commit, great work here! I'm going to update right now. ^_^

drew

@psychobunny You're certainly prolific in your releases!
Any chance of a v0.6.x compatible version of this plugin as a branch on your github repo?

a_5mith

@Drew-Llewellyn This was added to Lavender by default, so seems redundant now.

drew

@a_5mith Ah ok, because my category blocks are knocking each other out of place, and leaving whitespace I assumed this was the fix because it used masonry.js