View home forum in grid

[Ricsca]

Is there a way to display only the homepage as a grid and the subforums as a list?
Thank you

[Marc Stridgen]

There is no way in which you would be able to do that at present, unfortunately. You would need a plugin or application to create this functionality.

[Ricsca]

it would be nice if you add this option in the next update.  if you have a subforum, not everyone wants to display it in a grid:

[Jim M]

Please note I have moved this to the feature suggestion forum for you.

[Ricsca]

Ok thanks

[Nathan Explosion]

Try this out, at your own risk...template edit:

Open forums -> front -> forums -> forumDisplay

Find the following:

{{if \IPS\forums\Forum::getMemberView() === 'grid'}}
	<div class='ipsPadding' data-role="forums">
		<div class='ipsForumGrid'>
			{{foreach $forum->children( 'view' ) as $childforum}}
				{template="forumRow" group="index" app="forums" params="$childforum, TRUE"}
			{{endforeach}}
		</div>
	</div>
{{else}}
	<ol class="ipsDataList ipsDataList_zebra ipsDataList_large ipsAreaBackground_reset">
		{{foreach $forum->children( 'view' ) as $childforum}}
			{template="forumRow" group="index" app="forums" params="$childforum, TRUE"}
		{{endforeach}}
	</ol>
{{endif}}

Change it to:

<ol class="ipsDataList ipsDataList_zebra ipsDataList_large ipsAreaBackground_reset">
	{{foreach $forum->children( 'view' ) as $childforum}}
      {template="forumRow" group="index" app="forums" params="$childforum, TRUE"}
	{{endforeach}}
</ol>

Save the template.

[Ricsca]

@Nathan Explosion thaks

[gamecore]

On 3/22/2022 at 10:29 AM, Marc Stridgen said:

There is no way in which you would be able to do that at present, unfortunately. You would need a plugin or application to create this functionality.

Hello! Are you able to push this update up on the list of IPS priorities?

It's July 2022 and we have no other update about this feature request. It seems to be a lot of interest coming from gaming communities, but they don't always express it on IPS Forums.

We would use this as soon as it is available. Can't wait to see it introduced directly into IPS Core. We don't like bloatware plugins which crash whenever you upgrade IPS installation.

And we think that this feature should be 'a must' since people don't always want to change the whole appearance of their communities, but just a part of it. Giving out more control to Site Admins could benefit all other communities too, not just the gaming ones.

Thanks a lot!

[Ricsca]

it will never happen ... he doesn't care about improving ipb ...

[DawPi]

Something similar 😉

 

[gamecore]

Hello! @DawPi

Thank you for your recommendation! Your IPS Plugin not available for IPS 4.7. Or at least it is not showing up on the page. The last version is for IPS 4.6.

And there are not enough details there. Is it "a must" to have Mod on the selected forums in order be showed in grid?

Edited July 26, 2022 by gamecore

[DawPi]

4 hours ago, gamecore said:

Thank you for your recommendation! Your IPS Plugin not available for IPS 4.7. Or at least it is not showing up on the page. The last version is for IPS 4.6.

It waiting for approval for 4.7. 🙂

4 hours ago, gamecore said:

Is it "a must" to have Mod on the selected forums in order be showed in grid?

Not sure what I can tell. You can't setup it without mod - IPS don't have such ability to do that.