It's just like the layout I was requesting in this post
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9679/new-nodebb-theme-layout

Hopefully one day there will be more theme choices

Appreciate all those providing input on this type of layout. It's too bad the site using the grid layout is not using nodebb or else we could probably get the designer to provide some help.

@jarey said in New NodeBB Theme Layout:

@charles have you tried nodebb-theme-lavender? It just uses a grid layout as you showed.

Lavender is based on categories which has static front page correct? Looking for topics with thumbnail like the site I linked to.

@meetdilip said in New NodeBB Theme Layout:

Is that a Discourse forum ?

I'm not sure. Is there a way to find out for sure?

Best way to create a new NodeBB theme grid layout? Can someone list items need to create nodebb layout like this?

Can it be accomplished using css? Will NodeBB files need to be modified? Which ones? Hopefully it is easy to make layout without need to use plugin.

Suggestions?

@Nicca I recommended this guide to several newbie and they didn't have problems so that's another one to try.

@teh_g said in Performance Improvement:

@charles said in Performance Improvement:

I agree with @exodo that score of 57/79 and 53/79 (nodebb) doesn't look very good. For some that are judging based on these scores, they would skip and use another app.

I think judging based on those benchmarks alone isn't a great way to determine which software to use.

Yes I agree. When I ask several people to give NodeBB a try as their main app, they first go and check the grades

They sent me this (first one is NodeBB) and said, "why would you use that?"

If I can't even get them to try it, think about others that are also check the grades? This is the same with wp themes that have poor scores. People just skip over them and not use them on sites because they want good grades.

It's hard to get people to look past certain things even after they decide on another app.

Just sharing

Anyone know of a poll that will
-show results only after set date/time
-show results only after set number of votes

I agree with @exodo that score of 57/79 and 53/79 (nodebb) doesn't look very good. For some that are judging based on these scores, they would skip and use another app.

@julian Sorry not sure what some of those things mean since I'm just copying the details and grades from gtmet testing

Serve scaled images (F)
Defer parsing of JavaScript (D)
Leverage browser caching (C)
Optimize images (C)

Add Expires headers (F)
Make fewer HTTP requests (F)
Use cookie-free domains (F)
Reduce DNS lookups (C)
Minify JavaScript and CSS (B)
Avoid URL redirects (B)

@torn2 said in News or Magazine or Blog:

@AOKP Is there a preview of this theme?

Here's what it looks like

@AOKP said in News or Magazine or Blog:

@charles be sure that the folder is named like that and does not contain the -master at the end.

Since your theme name has v2 in it didn't know had to change that.

Renamed folder from nodebb-theme-zenith-v2 to nodebb-theme-zenith and it works! Thanks!

@zoharm said in Performance Improvement:

I am wondering if this post should be in a different category? Anyway, it would look great if a core community member could comment here...

Can someone move to correct category?

@yariplus said in Performance Improvement:

Many of those we already do, or are on the to-do list.

Is there any thing in particular you think is causing issues?

Can you share where this list url is located so the community can follow?
I see them for other projects but can't locate one for nodebb.

@AOKP tried to clone it into the folder and select from acp but get

Error ENOENT: no such file or directory, open /node_modules/nodebb-theme-zenith/theme.json

No to do list for next version of nodebb?

Any comment on these improvements?

Error: Script error for "translator"
http://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#scripterror

Anyone else getting this problem when accessing dashboard? What does this mean?

NodeBB v1.1.2

@AOKP said in News or Magazine or Blog:

@charles feel free to contribute to the Zenith update I made (not fine yet, but at least a few steps forward).

I tried to install and check it out via npm and it couldn't find the package.

The readme for this plugin https://github.com/yariplus/nodebb-plugin-featured-topics-extended does not include documentation.

I would like to try @yariplus . After activate, how to use it?

@yariplus the zenith theme was headed in the right direction but it's abandoned. something like this

Since the other forum already has something I would like to know if NodeBB has any plans to have similar layout supported.

Basically the "home" page looking like a news/magazine/blog site without the need for wp or ghost.