Avoiding the post_bar.tpl after the first post

[zethon]

I've looked through the template system (of the default theme) and I don't see how to change it so that the post_bar.tpl is not printed at the bottom of the first post. Ideally I would like to move that bar to the top of the first post, or remove it altogether.

Is this functionality hardcoded? Or is there somewhere in the template system I'm missing?

[baris]

https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-persona/blob/master/templates/topic.tpl#L32-L34

The client side code replaces that with the actual post bar, so you can move that placeholder around.

[zethon]

Interesting. My topic.tpl looks different.

When I installed I did the import I did the steps that said to checkout 1.0.0, do the upgrade and then checkout of 1.x.x. Could this be why my Persona theme looks different than what's on github? Should I just reclone the theme into /node_modules/templates (obviously losing any changes I've made)?

[baris]

Ahh yes the link I posted is from master so you would need to checkout master and git pull. Or wait for 1.1.0 to be released.

[zethon]

Ahh.. looks like I can't just clone and replace what was there. I get dependencies errors and what-not.

[zethon]

If I want to use the HEAD from master, would it be enough to update the nodebb-theme-persona version in package.json?

[baris]

If you update nodebb to master it will have the correct nodebb-theme-persona version defined in its package.json.

[zethon]

I've updated to master and modified the topic.tpl accordingly, however the bar hasn't moved!

I've changed my .tpl to look like:

And this is even reflected in the page's source...

However, the menu still gets rendered in the same place:

(I blocked out some text, so this screenshot may look odd.)
Suggestions?

[pichalite]

@zethon based on the code in this line of core... https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/public/src/client/topic/posts.js#L350

the post bar is always appended to the first post no matter where the placeholder is in the template. Sounds like a bug to me.

[pichalite]

@zethon if you want it to work until core is fixed... replace these two lines https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/public/src/client/topic/posts.js#L350-L351

with this...

$('.post-bar-placeholder').replaceWith($('.post-bar').clone());

[zethon]

@pichalite said in Avoiding the post_bar.tpl after the first post:

@zethon if you want it to work until core is fixed... replace these two lines https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/public/src/client/topic/posts.js#L350-L351

with this...

$('.post-bar-placeholder').replaceWith($('.post-bar').clone());

That did the trick. Thank you!

[zethon]

Are the tags hardcoded into the post-bar? I tried removing them from the post_bar.tpl (and added them to the bottom of topic.tpl, right above the include for post_bar.tpl) but they still show at the top post_bar (which is in the place I want it, now).

[pichalite]

@zethon said in Avoiding the post_bar.tpl after the first post:

Are the tags hardcoded into the post-bar?

Don't think so. Post your tpl code here.

[zethon]

@pichalite I've forked the persona theme and am working with my own copy here: https://github.com/zethon/nodebb-theme-persona

You can see post_bar.tpl here: https://github.com/zethon/nodebb-theme-persona/blob/master/templates/partials/post_bar.tpl

I've removed the tags, but they still show. My "OMG" comment to verify that my changes are live appears in the page's source.

[pichalite]

@zethon they are still showing up because you still have the tags inside the postbar div tag.

anything included in this div tag gets cloned to the placeholder.
https://github.com/zethon/nodebb-theme-persona/blob/master/templates/topic.tpl#L38

[zethon]

Ok, just for my own understanding, the <div class="post-bar"> element has two functions (so to speak):

• first it defines the elements in that div, "post-bar" (ie. any child elements it may have) and then
• second it displays them in the place they're being defined

Then later on if you need to display the items again you can just use: <div class="post-bar-placeholder"></div> instead of duplicating the code.

Does this sound about right?

[zethon]

Another interesting quirk I've realized this morning. We use pagination (since most of us can't stand infinite scrolling) and with my changes, the post-bar only shows at the top of the first page. If I navigate to page 2 (or higher) of the same thread, the post-bar only shows on the bottom. Thoughts?

[pichalite]

@zethon said in Avoiding the post_bar.tpl after the first post:

the post-bar only shows at the top of the first page

that's because the post-bar placeholder duplication is only setup to be at the first post in a topic.

Modify this line https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/public/src/client/topic/posts.js#L350 and remove !!mainPost.length && from the if condition.

[baris]

Maybe we can remove those checks now, they were added before we had the placeholder element in the template.