Posted April 22, 20187 yr For grid view on Forums, allow background cover photos. https://chevereto.com/community/ This looks gorgeous
May 19, 20187 yr @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?
May 19, 20187 yr 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
May 19, 20187 yr 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.
May 19, 20187 yr 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
May 19, 20187 yr 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
May 19, 20187 yr @onlyME says he's busy and can't take custom work now. Hopeful if someone could make it for IPS Marketplace.
May 19, 20187 yr 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
May 19, 20187 yr Author 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.
May 19, 20187 yr i dislike the way grid view works, truncates too much text - i'd much rather have the Our Pick style cards
May 19, 20187 yr Author 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.
May 19, 20187 yr 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/
May 19, 20187 yr Author 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.
May 19, 20187 yr 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.
May 19, 20187 yr 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.
May 20, 20187 yr 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!
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