Non-Global Stickies

Pollux

BartVB

but IMHO this should be limited to listings of a specific forum, not of a list of all topics on the site.

I asked myself the same question regarding pinned topics that are only interesting for a certain tag, e.g. an admin message with tag-specific rules. I came up with the following solution:

I created an additional tag with the only purpose to hide these topics from the All discussions view. In the admin panel I checked the Hide from All Discussions option in the settings for this tag. Because this tag doesn't serve any other purpose, I disallowed creating new topics with this tag (except for admins), then I used CSS to hide this tag label wherever it showed.

The only side effect is, that these tag-specific pinned discussions don't show up at all in the All discussions view, but that's OK for me.

Pollux

In my forum I use a tag with the only purpose to hide discussions from the All discussions view. I described my setting in Pollux . For cases like this, it would be nice to have an option to hide these tags from the normal users.

SMalt

Pollux then I used CSS to hide this tag label wherever it showed.

Hey @Pollux !
I guess something with DiscussionList-discussions and data-id. Do you disclose the right CSS-code?
Thank you in advance!

Pollux

On the "all discussions" view and the tag specific views, the link to a certain tag can be hidden with the following CSS:

.Dropdown-menu > li.item-tag99 {
  display: none;
}

where the 99 has to be replaced with the number of the tag that shouldn't show up.

The following CSS hides the tag from the new discussion modal window:

#modal li[data-index="99"] {
  display: none;
}

Pollux

Obviously, you can combine them to save some bytes:

.Dropdown-menu > li.item-tag99,
#modal li[data-index="99"] {
  display: none;
}

SMalt

Very nice! THANKS!

Pollux

One thing though to keep in mind as this is just a hack:

The tags treated that way are even invisible for the admin. If you want to asign this tag to a new discussion, you have to either temporarily remove the CSS for #modal li[data-index="99"] or use browser tools to remove the display: none property (in Firefox e.g. right click on one of the neighboring tags, select inspect element, then find the hidden tag - it's greyed out - and click in front of display: none).

jordanjay29

Pollux Unless you want non-admins to be able to have that same functionality, you can simply remove the permission to post a new discussion in that tag for anyone but an admin. Then the second CSS part isn't necessary (from the modal).

Pollux

jordanjay29

You are right, I somehow missed that.

This has the added advantage, that the caveat in Pollux is totally superfluous. Great.

Pollux

There is one more occurence of CSS I forgot to mention. To prevent the said tag from showing in the affected discussions above the title, I used this CSS rule:

.TagsLabel .TagLabel:not(.colored) {
    display: none;
}

But be aware that this hides all uncolored tags – i.e. all tags without an assigned color code.

So, you will end up with:

.Dropdown-menu > li.item-tag99,
.TagsLabel .TagLabel:not(.colored) {
    display: none;
}

jordanjay29

@Pollux I split your tutorial posts out of the other thread, since it really took on a life of its own.