CDN and style related option/features

phoenixlzx

Hello developers,

For some reasons the Google fonts API is not available in China mainland, which seriously slows down the website.
Currently I commented out this line and then add some font style in custom css section for a workaround.

I know this is not suitable to request a feature for something so specific, however this could be extend to a generic feature, to easily integrate with many CDN providers and speed up the website.

Firstly, the ability to edit and update style sheets and insert HTML/JavaScript code in admin panel, just like WordPress allows much more customization for a theme, but do store as another user-modified style sheet so changes would not be overwritten by theme updates.

And, a option to set static files URL prefix. This prefix could be a CDN address, like MaxCDN, CloudFront or KeyCDN service URL, so that all static files including scripts, styles, avatar images, will be loaded directly from CDN cache. This could reduce requests to host machine, and significantly decrease loading time.

Of course, those features can be implemented via extensions as well 😃

Kulga

phoenixlzx Firstly, the ability to edit and update style sheets and insert HTML/JavaScript code in admin panel, just like WordPress allows much more customization for a theme, but do store as another user-modified style sheet so changes would not be overwritten by theme updates.

This seems like the custom CSS you can modify in the admin panel?

Customize your forum's appearance by adding your own LESS/CSS code to be applied on top of Flarum's default styles.

phoenixlzx

Kulga Not exactly, the custom CSS option is just insert new style code if I understand correctly.

I mentioned WordPress because it supports modify all files included in a theme, but this would be overwritten when theme upgrade. So I'm thinking if I could edit theme source style code for my needs, and save it as user/custom.css or in the database, and compile this instead of the origin file. Thus we have infinite custom possibilities while keep origin theme files unchanged, which means upgrade will not be a pain.

Add option to insert custom HTML or JS is typically supporting analysis code but not limited to it, e.g., custom code highlighting, etc.

I think these features are used by most sites, implement built-in support or via extensions should be smarter than edit compiled files directly.

Kulga

phoenixlzx Oh, like a child theme in wordpress?

phoenixlzx

Kulga Yes exactly!