Spacious ACP 4

Better visibility! More information! Totally Customizable!

Now includes Spacious Widgets!

Originally I wanted an ACP theme that would display more options/information on a smaller sized laptop screen (i.e. 1600x900) and provide some customization. I've now re-written Spacious to be a more well-rounded modern look rather than focusing almost exclusively on compact information display. The result is a customizeable ACP that still retains the denser information views of the older versions. Trust me, you want this.

• More compact primary and secondary menus to fit more more menu options on the screen at a time. Reduced icon sizes as well.
• Header, primary, and secondary menu background colors fully changeable.
• Header, primary, and secondary menu font colors fully changeable.
• Removes the section header background and enlarges the section title for a clean modern look.
• Margins reduced across the board, interior tab elements styled more compactly.
• Change the name of the ACP to whatever you want.
• Latest IPS news and Admins Online widgets have been altered for better display.
• Optional modern-style dashboard widget format.
• New look for ACP warnings and new version announcements are now a single alert bar you click to expand to a details modal. No more wall of text destroying the dashboard!
• Subtle animation effect when moving between ACP areas. Feels app-like!
• Other under-the-hood changes...
• New in Spacious ACP 4: Login page customization!

 

Introducing Spacious Widgets!

The Spacious ACP theme comes with bonus dashboard widgets to fill in the gaps left by the rather lackluster IPS dashboard widgets. Includes:

System Overview: Realtime server load, IPS installation size, IPS database size, memory available (or free), storage space available, options for Community in the Cload customers, and more!

Gallery Overview: Mostly a rework of the default Gallery widget but with better formatting and it now displays the four most popular images in the Gallery.

Forum Statistics: The most glaring IPS ommission. You get not only the usual topic counts but 24 hour, 7day, and 28 day lookback totals. An 8 week compact bar graph to see how your community is trending. All that again for topic responses, totalled separately from topic first posts. Top three topic starters and responders with thier respective totals. 

Member Statistics: Member count of course but inludes the 24 hour, 7 days, and 28 days members active count. See how many members are actually using your forums on a regular basis! Also counts members that have not visited your forums in over 6 months. Members online, guests online, and new members over the last 7 days as well.

System Errors: Lists last five system errors so you can actually see what problems are occuring under the hood. Direct links to error reports and system error page.

SimilarWeb: A website ranking/tracking service. Two SW default widgets for tracking visitor types and relative rankings, embedded in a single IPS dashboard widget. The rankings widget can have two additional websites added for tracking alongside your own site.

Alexa: Get your Alexa ranking (for whatever that's worth...) right in your dashboard. Both global and national. Updates on a 7 day basis and flags trending up or down from previous check.

Future Widgets? Downloads, Blogs, and Commerce will probably have "something" done in the future but it will be awhile. As far as the next new widget goes it will be a Database Health widget.

 

For a full rundown on all the widgets plus what's on tap for additional Spacious ACP and Spacious Widgets changes and addons please read the Support Topic.

 

Installation:

For Spacious ACP install the .xml file as a new theme under Customization in your ACP. Please remove any previous Spacious ACP theme you may have installed. This is a totally new re-write and you should NOT upgrade the old theme. Be sure to assign permissions for the theme to Admins only. As before, this is exclusively an ACP theme; not a front end theme. To change the Spacious ACP settings just edit the theme settings as you usually do. All the Spacious options are under the Spacious ACP tab within that area; you may edit the other options (default theme options) but they may or may not have any effect.

For Spacious Widgets install the .tar file as a new Application. All configuration of Spacious Widgets can be found under it's own menu option which you will find under the Customization tab in the ACP. This is where you can configure the System Overview widget if you are a Community in the Cloud customer, change the SimilarWeb widget settings to add up to two additional websites to track alongside yours, and change the appearance of the ACPlogin page.

To add the new widgets to your dashboard just click the add button on the dashboard, choose and then drag them where you want them to be. Be aware that both Forum and Member Statistics only support the large display widget area. All the others can be used in the large or small areas.

Support:

In the support topic. This initial release will have some quirks with responsive css on Phone view plus left-to-right language support is pretty much nil right now. Also language bits. I need to add more variables so you can at least translate some stuff in the widgets.
 

Notes:

Some of the new widgets give you a sampling of statistical information you probably want about your site and though you can request that I add some things of this nature to Spacious Widgets they will probably NOT be added as that will require storing substantial information in the database. That's well beyond the scope of an ACP theme and some addon widgets. Better off in a separate application where it can be done right.

Keep in mind that in some server/hosting situations some data I try to read for the System Overview widget may not be accessible. Do not buy this if the Server Overview widget is the only thing you are interested in. No refunds will be approved due to some elements of that widget not working correctly on your site.

 

Cost/Allowed Use:

$10/$5 every six months. Basically $10 a year once you get going for a customizable ACP and a bunch of new dashboard widgets (with more on the way!). Feel free to skip a renew if you must but if you skip more than one renewal and try to renew more than a year later and I may just have you buy it outright again. Renewals keep us devs going! Licensed for your IPS site bound to your IPS account plus any/all dev boards (localhost or otherwise). Other sites should/need to get their own licensed copy of Spacious ACP.

Click the logo to get Spacious ACP and Spacious Widgets in the IPS Marketplace:

 

Got this earlier today:

A configuration issue has been detected on your community which requires your attention.

Locked Task: spaciousMembersOnline

One of the routine maintenance tasks which run in the background has failed several times, which may indicate a configuration issue.

I'm not giving it a lot of consideration for now.

I have same thing, any solution?

Edited January 21, 20214 yr by RangeMachine

We (@iacas and myself) tracked it down, there is a small hitch with the underlying IPS method for getting these counts.

As for why only some sites only get this, and then only occasionally, remains a mystery... 

I'll push out a "patched" version of Spacious which *should* mitigate this but any subsequent errors would be on the IPS side of things. I doubt you'll see any errors post-patch though as for the most part the IPS task which calls the same method I'm using usually runs error-free so I would assume...

It actually has a value of 1.00

 

btw when i go to customize i get a error

Error: Undefined constant "IPS\Theme\spacious_lp_boxtrans" (0)
#0 /home/admin/domains/justified.co/public_html/system/Theme/Theme.php(5348): IPS\Theme\css_spaciouswidgets_admin___spaciouslogin_css()
#1 /home/admin/domains/justified.co/public_html/system/Theme/Theme.php(2543): IPS\_Theme::writeCss()
#2 /home/admin/domains/justified.co/public_html/system/Theme/Theme.php(621): IPS\_Theme->compileCss()
#3 /home/admin/domains/justified.co/public_html/applications/spaciouswidgets/modules/admin/spaciouswidgets/customization.php(96): IPS\_Theme->css()
#4 /home/admin/domains/justified.co/public_html/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(101): IPS\spaciouswidgets\modules\admin\spaciouswidgets\_customization->manage()
#5 /home/admin/domains/justified.co/public_html/applications/spaciouswidgets/modules/admin/spaciouswidgets/customization.php(33): IPS\Dispatcher\_Controller->execute()
#6 /home/admin/domains/justified.co/public_html/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(153): IPS\spaciouswidgets\modules\admin\spaciouswidgets\_customization->execute()
#7 /home/admin/domains/justified.co/public_html/admin/index.php(13): IPS\_Dispatcher->run()
#8 {main}

But when i reload the page it then works fine? so not sure