Purple Dream

[Space Dinosaur]

Love the theme! Is there any way to have just the bog standard proboards mini-profile while using it?

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Apr 2, 2025 20:36:03 GMT -8 Space Dinosaur said:

Love the theme! Is there any way to have just the bog standard proboards mini-profile while using it?

Possible and easy. But when dealing with a highly modified theme, there's always the possibility that the theme's (CSS) styling has container sizes and positioning that won't look all that wonderful. So it's probably a good idea to keep a copy of the customized miniprofile in a notepad file so you can easily revert to that if you run into problems.

From your admin panel, navigate:
Admin Home> Themes> Layout Templates>

Select the desired theme (Purple Dream) in the dropdown to the right of Current Theme

Click on Mini-Profile in the Template Name column.

Place your cursor anywhere within the code being displayed and "select all", either by CTRL-A, or right click and choose select all. Then copy the code to your clipboard either by CTRL-C or right click and choose copy.

At this point, the safe move is to paste the contents into a notepad file, in case you need to retrieve it later.

Now click the Reset to Default button to the far right of Template Options
A dialog box will appear. Click the Yes button at the bottom of the dialog box and the code for the standard mini-profile will appear.

Click the Save Changes button near the bottom of the screen.

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Now view a thread or PM where the mini-profile will appear. If you're satisfied with the way it appears, you're done. If not, you can try modifying the CSS to improve the appearance or revert to the custom mini-profile by pasting your saved copy into the mini-profile template for this theme.

[Space Dinosaur]

Apr 6, 2025 13:19:59 GMT -8 Retread said:

Apr 2, 2025 20:36:03 GMT -8 Space Dinosaur said:

Love the theme! Is there any way to have just the bog standard proboards mini-profile while using it?

Possible and easy. But when dealing with a highly modified theme, there's always the possibility that the theme's (CSS) styling has container sizes and positioning that won't look all that wonderful. So it's probably a good idea to keep a copy of the customized miniprofile in a notepad file so you can easily revert to that if you run into problems.

From your admin panel, navigate:
Admin Home> Themes> Layout Templates>

Select the desired theme (Purple Dream) in the dropdown to the right of Current Theme

Click on Mini-Profile in the Template Name column.

Place your cursor anywhere within the code being displayed and "select all", either by CTRL-A, or right click and choose select all. Then copy the code to your clipboard either by CTRL-C or right click and choose copy.

At this point, the safe move is to paste the contents into a notepad file, in case you need to retrieve it later.

Now click the Reset to Default button to the far right of Template Options
A dialog box will appear. Click the Yes button at the bottom of the dialog box and the code for the standard mini-profile will appear.

Click the Save Changes button near the bottom of the screen.

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Now view a thread or PM where the mini-profile will appear. If you're satisfied with the way it appears, you're done. If not, you can try modifying the CSS to improve the appearance or revert to the custom mini-profile by pasting your saved copy into the mini-profile template for this theme.

Thank you for this.  However, it seems as though this keeps all of the added boxes for the mini profile as well as not resizing avatar images as it should by default.  Is there a simple way to remove these additional information lists (200x100 GIF:, Character Age:, etc.) and allow for the forum to automatically reduce the avatar size?

Example thread with Mini-profile: spacedinosaur.proboards.com/thread/2/forum-rules

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Apr 7, 2025 12:17:20 GMT -8 Space Dinosaur said:

Is there a simple way to remove these additional information lists (200x100 GIF:, Character Age:, etc.) and allow for the forum to automatically reduce the avatar size?

If you copy and paste this to the very bottom of your stylesheet, it should restore the container sizes and avatar size to ProBoards stock, as well as hiding the custom fields in your mini-profile.

/* Restore left-panel and mini-profile avatar to PB stock and hide custom fields */
   .posts .post .left-panel{
 width: 172px;
}
.mini-profile{
 width: 150px;
}
.avatar_size_default img{
   max-width:150px; max-height:150px;}
div.avatar-wrapper avatar_size_default avatar-1 {
   max-height:150px;
   max-width:150px;
}
.avatar-wrapper.avatar_size_default{
   height:150px;width:150px;
}    
div.mini-profile span[class^="custom-field"]{
   display:none;
}


[Space Dinosaur]

Is there any way to remove the table at the top of the theme? I love the layout but do not currently need the table. However, when removing it it seems to break the line that includes previous boards and participated threads.

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Space Dinosaur, there isn't an actual table at the top of the theme, but there are several divs that aren't part of a usual PB theme. Are you saying you want to delete all of the divs between the Navigation Menu and the Navigation Tree/ Participated? Or are there specific ones you want to keep?

[Space Dinosaur]

Apr 12, 2025 14:55:09 GMT -8 Retread said:

Space Dinosaur , there isn't an actual table at the top of the theme, but there are several divs that aren't part of a usual PB theme. Are you saying you want to delete all of the divs between the Navigation Menu and the Navigation Tree/ Participated? Or are there specific ones you want to keep?

Thank you so much for your replies.  Yes, I believe I would like to remove all of the divs.  I'm looking to remove the section shown here, if possible -

However, when I attempt to remove them it stretches the bar that has a breakdown of boards and threads (i.e. Proboards Support > ... > Purple Dream > Reply >) and the Participated button to take up the entire width of the screen past the border of the banner and boards as can be seen here - spacedinosaur.proboards.com/

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Space Dinosaur yeah, that's kind of broken. If you can undo that change so that section shows the way you had it in the image you provided, this change to your Style Sheet should get you where you want to go. Add it to the end, either before or after the last change I provided.

/* Remove info divs and reduce container height for only Navigation tree */
div.info-wel,
div.info-center,
div.info-staff{
   display:none
}
div.info-table{
   height:auto;
}

[Space Dinosaur]

Apr 12, 2025 20:16:10 GMT -8 Retread said:

Space Dinosaur yeah, that's kind of broken. If you can undo that change so that section shows the way you had it in the image you provided, this change to your Style Sheet should get you where you want to go. Add it to the end, either before or after the last change I provided.

/* Remove info divs and reduce container height for only Navigation tree */
div.info-wel,
div.info-center,
div.info-staff{
   display:none
}
div.info-table{
   height:auto;
}

Thank you so much!  However, it has now pushed all of the categories and boards off-center on the right of the forum.  Is there any way to adjust this?

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Apr 18, 2025 17:31:08 GMT -8 Space Dinosaur said:

Thank you so much!  However, it has now pushed all of the categories and boards off-center on the right of the forum.  Is there any way to adjust this?

I don't know how to troubleshoot what you might have done to create that problem.

This forum has a modification of the Purple Dream theme:
themedisplay.boards.net/
It doesn't exhibit this problem.

To get there, I installed the Purple Dream theme from the ProBoads theme library.
I made a copy of that.
Then I made the following changes to the copy:
Reset the Mini-Profile layout template (the way I described in my first reply)
Applied the two CSS additions to the stylesheet. (as I described in my second and third reply)

If you're unable to undo whatever changes have caused your problem, you might want to install a fresh version of the Purple Dream, make a copy of that, and apply the changes to the new copy.

Every so often, after making a few changes to a complicated theme, it's a good idea to make a copy before making changes you're unsure of. That way, if you break things badly, you can revert to a version that has the successful changes you previously made.