[Plugin] Multicolored Categories

[nancyalvarado]

Jan 27, 2016 10:21:16 GMT -8 Brian said:

Jan 27, 2016 10:13:07 GMT -8 nancyalvarado said:

Thanks for the great plugin Brian .

I have a request/question though: Is there a way to see the different category colors when you are looking at the New Posts section?

Our users would particularly love it if we could color the folders to match the category colors: ie, all Category1 is colored purple with your plug-in, and all posts inside Category1 show up with a purple folder. That way, when you were looking at the New Posts page, you could immediately see which posts were in Category1.

Thanks for any help!

That would require a layout template modification. The plugin has no concept of which category individual threads are contained in as the page doesn't provide that information by default.

Is there somewhere I can look for help with that?  I thought a plug-in might do it and your plugin was the closest I had found.  If it requires actual coding on my part, then I know that is above my skillset.

[Brian]

Jan 27, 2016 10:33:12 GMT -8 nancyalvarado said:

Jan 27, 2016 10:21:16 GMT -8 Brian said:

That would require a layout template modification. The plugin has no concept of which category individual threads are contained in as the page doesn't provide that information by default.

Is there somewhere I can look for help with that?  I thought a plug-in might do it and your plugin was the closest I had found.  If it requires actual coding on my part, then I know that is above my skillset.

The Templates board is the place for all things layout template related.

[nancyalvarado]

Thanks for your help!

[smashwords2]

Brian, where do I set the "New Post" colour or text colour so its not the same colour as the one for a Category colour?

I've tried Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS click on Body (Content) > New Icons and changed Background Colour, Border Colour, and Text colour to all the same colour but the colour of New Posts text in the Category remains the same colour as set by your plugin.

[Brian]

May 25, 2016 11:17:12 GMT -8 smashwords2 said:

Brian, where do I set the "New Post" colour or text colour so its not the same colour as the one for a Category colour?

I've tried Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS click on Body (Content) > New Icons and changed Background Colour, Border Colour, and Text colour to all the same colour but the colour of New Posts text in the Category remains the same colour as set by your plugin.

What New Posts text are you referring to? As far as I've known it's always been indicated by the icon of the board, not text.

[smashwords2]

May 25, 2016 11:21:00 GMT -8 Brian said:

May 25, 2016 11:17:12 GMT -8 smashwords2 said:

Brian, where do I set the "New Post" colour or text colour so its not the same colour as the one for a Category colour?

I've tried Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS click on Body (Content) > New Icons and changed Background Colour, Border Colour, and Text colour to all the same colour but the colour of New Posts text in the Category remains the same colour as set by your plugin.

What New Posts text are you referring to? As far as I've known it's always been indicated by the icon of the board, not text.

My dumb. I'm using Collapsible Categories and its that plug which has the text colour. Sheesh.

[artdoc]

bptest-site.freeforums.net

I have the current version on as far as I can see, but it isn't making any change in my category bar!

The link included is for TEST forum, and the top category is named "THe Gathering". Right now it's just set to a randomly chosen color but it isn't changing. It sure doesn't look like there are too many ways to go wrong, but I'm getting no luck.

What's going wrong?

[Brian]

Jun 14, 2016 12:16:43 GMT -8 artdoc said:

bptest-site.freeforums.net

I have the current version on as far as I can see, but it isn't making any change in my category bar!

The link included is for TEST forum, and the top category is named "THe Gathering". Right now it's just set to a randomly chosen color but it isn't changing. It sure doesn't look like there are too many ways to go wrong, but I'm getting no luck.

What's going wrong?

There appears to be a space before the name in your plugin settings which is causing it not to match the category name.

[artdoc]

...a space before the name? Well THAT's pretty silly, huh? That fixed it. Thanks.

[thehappyfaceking]

Could you add support for choosing a specific category to use a specific theme from the Themes section of the Admin panel?

Just as I talked about in this thread: support.proboards.com/thread/593483/specific-inside-borders-color-category

[Brian]

Aug 3, 2016 14:07:28 GMT -8 thehappyfaceking said:

Could you add support for choosing a specific category to use a specific theme from the Themes section of the Admin panel?

Just as I talked about in this thread: support.proboards.com/thread/593483/specific-inside-borders-color-category

Plugins can't edit the admin area in any way. Their code only runs on the forum itself.

[thehappyfaceking]

Aug 4, 2016 8:22:49 GMT -8 Brian said:

Aug 3, 2016 14:07:28 GMT -8 thehappyfaceking said:

Could you add support for choosing a specific category to use a specific theme from the Themes section of the Admin panel?

Just as I talked about in this thread: support.proboards.com/thread/593483/specific-inside-borders-color-category

Plugins can't edit the admin area in any way. Their code only runs on the forum itself.

...I'm not saying it has to edit the admin area...Im asking to make it use a part of the admin area...if you can't do this with a plugin, is there any other way you can do it?

[Brian]

Aug 4, 2016 9:56:14 GMT -8 thehappyfaceking said:

Aug 4, 2016 8:22:49 GMT -8 Brian said:

Plugins can't edit the admin area in any way. Their code only runs on the forum itself.

...I'm not saying it has to edit the admin area...Im asking to make it use a part of the admin area...if you can't do this with a plugin, is there any other way you can do it?

Can you clarify how it would utilize the admin area?

Are you asking if the plugin can make it so that when you're viewing a board within a certain category the forum automatically switches to a different theme? If so that's not possible for a plugin to achieve.

[thehappyfaceking]

Aug 4, 2016 10:17:33 GMT -8 Brian said:

Aug 4, 2016 9:56:14 GMT -8 thehappyfaceking said:

...I'm not saying it has to edit the admin area...Im asking to make it use a part of the admin area...if you can't do this with a plugin, is there any other way you can do it?

Are you asking if the plugin can make it so that when you're viewing a board within a certain category the forum automatically switches to a different theme? If so that's not possible for a plugin to achieve.

Yeah Basically If a plugin can't do that then how can it be done?

[Brian]

Aug 4, 2016 10:40:38 GMT -8 thehappyfaceking said:

Aug 4, 2016 10:17:33 GMT -8 Brian said:

Are you asking if the plugin can make it so that when you're viewing a board within a certain category the forum automatically switches to a different theme? If so that's not possible for a plugin to achieve.

Yeah Basically If a plugin can't do that then how can it be done?

You would have to design the theme itself to work that way using a combination of template variables and CSS.