[Plugin] Multicolored Categories

[Brian]

Dec 16, 2014 15:32:21 GMT -8 leighlei said:

What's the workaround? <<

Edit: Also. That can't be found. I've searched the document and it's just not there
-; - ;

That's because you have to add it yourself. It's doesn't exist there by default.

The workaround is to go to Themes > Layout Templates > Home and change this line:

<div class="container boards">

To this:

<div class="container boards categories">

Then place this at the bottom of Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS > Style Sheet, substituting the number in green with the height you'd like the category title bars to be.

.categories > .title-bar h2 { line-height: 30px !important; }

[leighlei]

Yeah, it didn't work. I added the code at the bottom, as well as put the new code in the template. No change.
I'm also usin' the collapsible categories and the sidebar redux. Could that have somethin' to do with it?

[Brian]

Dec 30, 2014 14:57:25 GMT -8 leighlei said:

Yeah, it didn't work. I added the code at the bottom, as well as put the new code in the template. No change.
I'm also usin' the collapsible categories and the sidebar redux. Could that have somethin' to do with it?

It looks like something else earlier in the style sheet is still overriding it. Try this instead.

.categories > .title-bar.bbcode h2 { line-height: 30px !important; }

[leighlei]

LOOKS LIKE A WINNER!
*Smothers in hugs*

[leighlei]

Or not. Seems the images are still bein' shrunk ;-;
What i'm trying to do is put an image in the category, but not have the category text.

[Brian]

Dec 30, 2014 15:24:20 GMT -8 leighlei said:

Or not. Seems the images are still bein' shrunk ;-;
What i'm trying to do is put an image in the category, but not have the category text.

The background images for your categories are displaying at their original dimensions as background images don't get resized.

i.imgur.com/daiibdC.jpg

Adding this to the bottom of Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS > Style Sheet will hide their text.

.container > .title-bar.bbcode h2 { visibility: hidden; }

[leighlei]

Nevermind, clashed again. I thought it was increasin, but it isn't. Nor is the image.
I would like the image to show, and the text to be hidden. x x

i.imgur.com/XmOxPeD.jpg That's the image i'm currently fumblin' with.

[Brian]

Dec 30, 2014 16:02:30 GMT -8 leighlei said:

Nevermind, clashed again. I thought it was increasin, but it isn't. Nor is the image.
I would like the image to show, and the text to be hidden. x x

i.imgur.com/XmOxPeD.jpg That's the image i'm currently fumblin' with.

It looks like you left out the .bbcode bit in the CSS I provided, so it's being overridden again by earlier CSS in the style sheet.

Here's an all-in-one solution that should fix any problems with the previous ones (which can be removed if this one works) and prevent the image from repeating.

.title_wrapper { padding: 0; }
.container > .title-bar.bbcode { background-repeat: no-repeat; }
.container > .title-bar.bbcode h2 { line-height: 30px !important; visibility: hidden; }

[leighlei]

Works now! I think. XD
It's weird, tho. The forum width is set to 800, and yet it keeps wantin' to expand outwards. You wouldn't happen to know what's keepin' it from bein' contained, would you?

[Brian]

Dec 30, 2014 16:32:46 GMT -8 leighlei said:

Works now! I think. XD
It's weird, tho. The forum width is set to 800, and yet it keeps wantin' to expand outwards. You wouldn't happen to know what's keepin' it from bein' contained, would you?

The forum's width is usually determined by what you specify in Themes > Colors & Theme Creator but some of your themes have CSS overriding it in Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS > Style Sheet. If you press Ctrl+F in the style sheet and type #wrapper into the search box you can usually find each instance of CSS that controls the forum wrapper.

For example, on line 1555 of your default theme's style sheet you'll see a width: 90%; property that's overriding the width normally specified in the Colors & Theme Creator.

[evangelion7890]

Forum URL: sdgo.freeforums.net/

Hi Brian, need some help with your plugin.  I posted it in the support board by mistake instead of here.  This is the link to the post:  link here


Thanks...Evan.

[Brian]

Feb 17, 2015 7:54:19 GMT -8 evangelion7890 said:

Forum URL: sdgo.freeforums.net/

Hi Brian, need some help with your plugin.  I posted it in the support board by mistake instead of here.  This is the link to the post:  link here


Thanks...Evan.

It looks like the plugin is working correctly. The only problem is that your title bars on that theme have solid background images that are preventing you from seeing the background color.

storage.proboards.com/5358728/i/AlwZR6FSjdADgGZbx0fy.png

The easiest solution will be to go to Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS and change the background image of your title bars to one of the images in the dropdown in Body (Content) > Containers > Title Bars, then changing the default background color to something similar to that of the image.

[evangelion7890]

Feb 17, 2015 9:49:19 GMT -8 Brian said:

Feb 17, 2015 7:54:19 GMT -8 evangelion7890 said:

Forum URL: sdgo.freeforums.net/

Hi Brian, need some help with your plugin.  I posted it in the support board by mistake instead of here.  This is the link to the post:  link here


Thanks...Evan.

It looks like the plugin is working correctly. The only problem is that your title bars on that theme have solid background images that are preventing you from seeing the background color.

storage.proboards.com/5358728/i/AlwZR6FSjdADgGZbx0fy.png

The easiest solution will be to go to Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS and change the background image of your title bars to one of the images in the dropdown in Body (Content) > Containers > Title Bars, then changing the default background color to something similar to that of the image.

Hi Brian,

Thanks, It worked.  I set title bars to none and the colors displayed.


Thanks again...:Evan.

[jazzmeisterg1]

So I'm workin' on a new layout and there's issues with the categories.
The text neither is hidden, nor are the categories increasin' in size.

( It's the Wayward Son layout, which is currently disabled at the moment because of being worked on )

Any assistance would be helpful. Thanks!
transformersgalaxyrp.freeforums.net/

[Brian]

Jul 15, 2015 9:25:05 GMT -8 jazzmeisterg1 said:

So I'm workin' on a new layout and there's issues with the categories.
The text neither is hidden, nor are the categories increasin' in size.

( It's the Wayward Son layout, which is currently disabled at the moment because of being worked on )

Any assistance would be helpful. Thanks!
transformersgalaxyrp.freeforums.net/

My plugin doesn't perform either of those functions. It only changes color and background images.