Flarum Categories

Benzitczo

SZSZ Ok thanks you

Flarfan79

Hi I have installed the extension and been playing around with it. I had a few questions if you didn't mind:

Is there a way to make the categories page, the homepage? Would you recommend it?
I recall there being links at the top of the screen when I first installed the extension- including one for categories. Now I only see it on the sidebar. I can't figure out if I changed some option to remove this from the top menu. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Indreksi

Superb plug. Would it be possible to add option for users to select it as a homepage?

Just some users like the old -school forum layout : D

Jbugy

How do I update the number of posts that are in that category (tag). This maybe not related to this exact extension mind!

Amzir-A

SZSZ I tried this and now it looks like this

Boss81

Hi All!

Unfortunately, I have the same problem as the @2006bt.

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/23184-flarum-categories/281

What @SZSZ recommended as a solution would actually be good, but not good from a stand-alone tablet point of view.

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/23184-flarum-categories/283

It looks perfect on desktop and mobile.

Does anyone have any ideas on what could be done to make it look good even in a portrait tablet view?

Lumeinshin

The extension has been working great for me still, although we don't use icons so i'm unsure about that issue

As well as the option to set it as the frontpage (although I think a new extension for per-user frontpage might be better), would it be possible to change the sub-tag colour? so say it can match the colours they are given in the tag settings or maybe even set some kind of offset, so tagcolour+minus saturation or such?

Just food for thought for a later feature. Great extension

Yippy

Lumeinshin
You can test this PR with the Primary Child Tag color theme, https://github.com/askvortsov1/flarum-categories/pull/50#. There is gif examples of the new Color Theme for Primary Tags and support for night and day with text contrast.

Gorm

Yippy i see only one serious miss: general alignment of the container. Old version: If you expand drop-down menu from your account-name (where exit button placed) - you will see that the right border of the container is just identical to the right border of the dropdown menu. This canonical alignment for all flarum pages.
And left border must be just identical to first pixel of the forum title.
For new WIP version container goes to the right and more narrow.
Pictures 🙂
Old version:

WIP version:

So, alignment broken for mobile (too thin), etc. This is behavior unexpected and need to be fixed.

After this it can be released. It have some mulfunction just out-the-box, but this function is new and didnt broke anything else:

it didnt output data from Forum Widgets, but it didnt early.
seems it have some day/night mode workaround
its output forum stats!!!

So, its better then early.

I am rolled backup for now, cause alignment is important for my mobile users. Everything also is good or WIP (not broken). Old css rules seems compatible with new version. By the way, I am using old version with this custom css (i am not using compact mode cause of too awry):

.TagCategory .TagCategory-content {
	padding: 4px 20px !important;
}

.TagCategory .TagCategory-content .TagCategory-main .TagCategory-name {
	display: block;
	margin: 0;
	font-size: 19px !important;
}

.TagCategory.SubCategory .TagCategory-content .TagCategory-icon .CategoryIcon {
	color: #000 !important;
}

.TagCategoryList > .TagCategory {
  margin-bottom: 11px !important;
}

This do primary tag block a little bit smaller and pretty. Not like a huge button. Also I do less interval between blocks. This pretty much too. And little workaround for night mode - not black, but near black icons. Its really not bad on modern high contrast displays (mobile phones mainly) and still can be improved with background tune. This is also related to Lumeinshin. He wants just commom settings for color for all sub-tags. Not default. With saving uniq color for tag on all over pages.

Of course this css tweaks too ugly, but maybe this views can be founded pretty for you too.

Problem described by navindra also confirmed. I try to turn off and turn on the extension, but counters still didnt affected. It's just goes crazy.. Showing 22 discussion with total 1 post 🙂

Yippy

Just to let people know, I've made a PR that fixes Compact Mobile View mode, and child Tag icon.
askvortsov1/flarum-categories49

To test this:
Amend the composer.json file.

    "require": {
        "askvortsov/flarum-categories": "^3.0",

    "require": {
        "askvortsov/flarum-categories": "dev-group-permission",

Underneath the require section, create new section for repositories and put my fork to test

    "require": {
    },
    "repositories": [
	{
	    "type": "vcs",
	    "url": "https://github.com/Yippy/flarum-categories"
	},
    ],

Then run the composer update to pull the new PR and test it, let me know if it fixes anything
composer update

The new PR, is able to fix most compatibility with other themes such as Asirem Theme. This is because AffixedSidebar usage cause some broken elements in the navigation.

This PR was to included design elements for Tag Passwords. Where protected tag shouldn't show any stats or last post. But while I was at it, I've fixed all the little issues.

askvortsov

v3.1.0

Added compatibility with https://discuss.flarum.org/d/30014-tag-passwords
Fixes compact mobile view mode
Fixes child tag icon colors + background
Fixes compatibility with many other themes

Thank you @Yippy!

Gorm

askvortsov now it's impossible to output general forum statistic (posts/users/last registered) to categories page with all available way:

lost compatibilities with FoF Forum Statistics Widget. Previous version works well. After update just didnt display.
also early it shows primary first-level categories on sidebar (+ secondary categories behind it), but now behavior is changed and big block is gone. I cant say is it "fixed issue" or "removed extra feature". Maybe it is related to 1st notice.
have not support Forum Widgets (and Custom HTML Widget). Also didnt display. Previous version didnt tested, maybe its the same.

It's still very usefull, but also very limited for your left sidebar on mainpage (switched to categories for my forum). Seems have a lot of hardcode and your main page will have some another look then other standard page (all discussion, tags, newest, etc). Seems you cant control it with standard settings in Categories and via settings in your extensions.

@askvortsov, maybe you have some instructions for controlling output in left sidebar? Because behaviour come to unexpected after update.

Yippy

Gorm

I've worked on the latest changes, going to check my environment.

I've enabled

fof/forum-statistics-widget is working
afrux/forum-widgets-bundle
- Forum Stats Widget is working
- Online Users Widget is working
Custom HTML Widget (cannot enable it)

But I think there is a different extension that is breaking your website.

Oh you mean, the widget are missing only on the Categories page?

Gorm

Yippy yeah, its missing on Categories page. This is a default view on main page for my setup. And its work on all another pages like "All discussions", etc.

I understood that you already got an issue on Categories page. If not I can give a link to my main page and "All discussions" page for comparing. Or screenshots if my settings needed.

Custom HTML widget give you just field for entering any HTML in source view. And then you can output this block of HTML throw Forum Widgets with just drag'n'drop (position can be selected left/right/top/bottom etc).

All of this didnt displayed for now on Categories page. No any new modules installed, just minor updates for all modules including Categories.

Yippy

I believe, the previous 'feature' for you was a bug. I've followed the Tags page template, and that also doesn't show the widgets and bit and bobs. The Tags and Categories was acting only like 'Tag List' pages, I would prefer that there is a new admin settings for displaying widgets, as many does not have the Categories pages as their main page. I will need to work on this after my other extension project.

Best thing you can do is revert to the old version. by amending the composer.json
"askvortsov/flarum-categories": "3.0.9"

edit
Correction, only the left side stats shows for Tags Page. The right side widgets isn't there.
So I need to investigate left side widget and right side widget, with a option to enable or display them.

Gorm

Yippy Correction, only the left side stats shows for Tags Page. The right side widgets isn't there.

Absolutely right, only left sidebar. Right and other positions not much suitable for default style/theme and I'd prefer to use left sidebar. I think about downgrade, will see for several days. Thanks for instruction, hope it can be fixed with separate option in settings.

Yippy

Gorm

Yeah, I've already started working on implementing the 4 different ways for widget to appear on Categories. The option that I'm now working on is left, right, header and footer. I've got most of it working.... and I was thinking surely Widget didn't work on this extension. Alot of guessing and rejigging to get the widget back is awkward, only the left side " Forum Statistics Widget" was the easiest but the fix I've made doesn't handle left sidebar top and left sidebar bottom widget for afrux bundle.

What I got working was:
afrux widget : header, right sidebar, and footer
Forum Statistics Widget : left sidebar

Currently the update I'm working on is WIP.

Yippy

@Gorm

I've made the widget fix and improved text color, it be nice to have some testing feedback if anyone wish to test this.

To test this:
Amend the composer.json file.

    "require": {
        "askvortsov/flarum-categories": "^3.0",

    "require": {
        "askvortsov/flarum-categories": "dev-widget-text",

Underneath the require section, create new section for repositories and put my fork to test

    "require": {
    },
    "repositories": [
	{
	    "type": "vcs",
	    "url": "https://github.com/Yippy/flarum-categories"
	}
    ],

https://github.com/askvortsov1/flarum-categories/pull/50

Gorm

Yippy exelent news!!! But I can test it only tomorrow, sorry for delay (family time).

Gorm

Yippy },

🙂 I am not too familiar with composer and this typo is a reason for my delay 🙂

OK, now it's looks.. freshly 🙂 I have some custom styles from old version and I need some time to test settings.

Forum stats output corrected. Seems it works fine. In overall its looks like a great job 🙂

navindra

Hi! This is one of my favorite extensions.

When I turn off the "Optimize for small forums" option, the count can be way off especially if I just deleted a big discussion. It seems that turning off this setting doesn't work well with deleted discussions.

Is there a way I can correct the count without having to turn the option on? I tried "Clear Cache" and that wasn't effective.

The only thing that worked was to delete the Tag and recreate it.

Thank you!

Yippy

Gorm oh yeah, the comma is for extra repo which I have in my composer file.

I will work on some code improvements, but busy with another extension at the moment. But atleast I know that it works for you.

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