Joel R Posted April 22, 2018 Posted April 22, 2018 For grid view on Forums, allow background cover photos. https://chevereto.com/community/ This looks gorgeous
Lucas James Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 @opentype Sir, I've seen your Super plugins and plan to buy a couple of them soon as they are fantastic! Can you please make such Forum Grid Background Cover plugin for IPS 4.3 as the OP mentioned?
newbie LAC Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 9 minutes ago, Lucas James said: @opentype Sir, I've seen your Super plugins and plan to buy a couple of them soon as they are fantastic! Can you please make such Forum Grid Background Cover plugin for IPS 4.3 as the OP mentioned? Ask @onlyME maybe with his plugin https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8425-bim43-forum-cover/ you can do it
Lucas James Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 2 minutes ago, newbie LAC said: Ask @onlyME maybe with his plugin https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8425-bim43-forum-cover/ you can do it I have that plugin but it only works with Forum Cover. Whereas the one I asked is regarding the Forum Index Page Grid View as the OP posted.
newbie LAC Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 4 minutes ago, Lucas James said: the Forum Index Page On the index also displays forums. If you have a cover photo for Pre-Sales Questions you can add it. It's css changes! 13 minutes ago, Lucas James said: I have that plugin but it only works with Forum Cover. Submit request
Lucas James Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 Thanks. But there should be a dedicated plugin or settings for Forum Grid Cover Image to avoid manual custom.css edits. Sure, I will ask @onlyME. But I like @opentype such plugins (though they are for Pages only) which gives a much beautiful look. Thanks
Lucas James Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 @onlyME says he's busy and can't take custom work now. Hopeful if someone could make it for IPS Marketplace.
Yamamura Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 I'm not sure that the background images for Grid View would be very useful (especially in the examples above). But in any case currently Grid View is very primitive and uncomfortable. I would like this view mode to be something like this — https://forums.macrumors.com
Joel R Posted May 19, 2018 Author Posted May 19, 2018 4 hours ago, Takohashi said: I'm not sure that the background images for Grid View would be very useful (especially in the examples above). But in any case currently Grid View is very primitive and uncomfortable. I would like this view mode to be something like this — https://forums.macrumors.com This is the traditional list view with custom forum icons ... Not sure how that's related to grid view and my request for custom grid backgrounds. Thank you @newbie LAC for the reminder to @onlyME though.
Ocean West Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 i dislike the way grid view works, truncates too much text - i'd much rather have the Our Pick style cards
Joel R Posted May 19, 2018 Author Posted May 19, 2018 4 minutes ago, Ocean West said: i dislike the way grid view works, truncates too much text - i'd much rather have the Our Pick style cards It shows all the text for me? What's the screenshot of grid view for your FNF file. Masonry style for a forum index is an interesting concept though.
Ramsesx Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 On 4/22/2018 at 4:23 AM, Joel R said: This looks gorgeous Similar like this, and the text is better readable: https://www.condominioweb.com/forum/
Ocean West Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 Nothing wraps properly, and long forum names all get truncated..
Joel R Posted May 19, 2018 Author Posted May 19, 2018 Just now, Ocean West said: Nothing wraps properly, and long forum names all get truncated.. Oh. That's because your forum icons are big. Try to make them the same size as the IPS defaults, I think when I was making mine they were either 32x32 or 48x48. I see what you mean by long forum titles not wrapping.
opentype Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 I agree with newbie LAC: If onlyME already has the functionality of uploading forum-specific images, then the use in the grid-view is best added to this plugin instead of building something fron scratch.
Lucas James Posted May 19, 2018 Posted May 19, 2018 2 hours ago, opentype said: I agree with newbie LAC: If onlyME already has the functionality of uploading forum-specific images, then the use in the grid-view is best added to this plugin instead of building something fron scratch. Agreed, but he said he's busy and can't take any/this custom work now.
The Old Man Posted May 20, 2018 Posted May 20, 2018 The text can be hard to read though. I'd suggest maybe a 1px border around the Font to differentiate against some of the background image colours. Thanks for the tip Joel, I love grid view in forums but don't use it because of the text being truncated!
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.