[Plugin] Multicolored Categories

[Brian]

Dec 8, 2020 10:31:36 GMT -8 justja said:

Loving the plugin Brian ! And possibly even over-using it, which leads to a question: Is there a way to have boards and posts inherent the settings for colour but not the background images?

I'm also using the Different Background per Board plugin, and while I've made background images which work well on the home page, some of them clash with the board backgrounds. Others make the titles unreadable when the text is placed directly over them (rather than next to them, which works on the home page as the text is centered, but not for the boards).

Nothing that's currently coded in the plugin. You can try messing with the text-shadow CSS property to give the text a black outline to offset it a bit from the content, but that's the best you'll probably get without a change to the plugin itself. Some of the background image and text color combinations can't really be helped without outright changing the text color to something that blends into the background image less.

If you want to test to see what the thing I described above looks like you can go to Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS > Style Sheet in your admin area you can change line 417 from this:

@title_text_shadow: 0 0 2px #000000;

To this:

@title_text_shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000, -1px -1px 1px #000, 1px -1px 1px #000, -1px 1px 1px #000, 0 0 2px #000;

[justja]

Thanks!

The outline works brilliantly and has solved the problem.

[lyndswins]

Is there a way to add a highlight color to categories when they are hovered over? 
I'm looking to use this paired with the collapsing categories, so users know they can click the title bars.

[Brian]

Jan 6, 2021 14:29:58 GMT -8 lyndswins said:

Is there a way to add a highlight color to categories when they are hovered over? 
I'm looking to use this paired with the collapsing categories, so users know they can click the title bars.

Not through the use of this plugin. Sorry.

The mouse cursor changes to a pointer when hovering over categories when the Collapsing Categories plugin is enabled. There's a couple CSS/template changes you can make to your theme to make it more obvious that you can collapse the category.

Personally, a highlight color wouldn't indicate anything to me regarding whether or not I could collapse a category. I'd recommend something permanently visible as well as text that appears when hovering over the title bar that indicates that you can expand/collapse the category.

[L3010]

Hello! I'm looking for a way to change the background color of each board, (also boarders) Your amazing plugin does everything but background color.

I'm reading the e-book about making your own PB-plugins but can't seem to understand how to change the code in your plugin to add this myself

Is there any possibility that you could update and add this feature to the plugin?

Thanks very much, Leo!

[Brian]

May 23, 2021 6:56:47 GMT -8 L3010 said:

Hello! I'm looking for a way to change the background color of each board, (also boarders) Your amazing plugin does everything but background color.

I'm reading the e-book about making your own PB-plugins but can't seem to understand how to change the code in your plugin to add this myself

Is there any possibility that you could update and add this feature to the plugin?

Thanks very much, Leo!

The plugin is meant to explicitly change just the containers. Unfortunately, I have no intention of adding customization options for anything beyond containers like the background of the page itself.

[L3010]

I ment the background color of the container (and highlighted background color)

Thanks either way