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Hi , fresh clean install for a new forum and getting this in the theme editor. Definitely wasnt like this for me on beta 5.0.0 beta 1 Tried clearing the system cache and still there.

Cheers. Wil have a go later and if I break it I'll probably ask somebody who does it. Matt

Appreciate the help but... Where would I add this and would it just target categories? Also instead of putting red could I put the hsl so it's an exact match?

Yeah so this area, is it possible to theme it so the background colour is the same as that header. Basically have the categories with a background colour to separate them from the forums visually.

Yeah my bad. Had the sidebar on lol. Any idea on how to change the background colour on just the forum categories? So the categories stand out from the forums in that category. All white just not my cup of tea.

Just watching the video that you put up about this and you showed how you could move the breadcrumb, logo etc. I don't have this option on my v5 beta. Has it been taken off?

Done now. Worked that way when installing ipb 4 im sure. Oh well , its done now. Thanks

I am installing to the exact same url. Ive omitted certain part of the url with xxxxxxxxx but they are 100% the same. https://www.talxxxxxxxxxxes.com/admin/install/index.php?controller=license In the client area.. Licensed URLs Community URL: https://talxxxxxxxxxxes.com/

Hi , I am trying to install the beta 5 on my new forum (i deleted the ipb4 off as was just starting it and realised that the beta was coming out soon. Its showing up this error... An installation has already been activated for this license key. Your license key entitles you to one installation only. If you need to change the URL associated with your license, contact IPS technical support. I dont have any other installation. Any ideas? Matt

Just making the forum now so nothing at the moment but was going to use the opentype supertopics to pull articles or something to the homepage but thinking about it, the forum is going to be 90%+ of the usage so could aleways just add some custom html on the header to put something on there so probably better to have the forum as the homepage then. Cheers for the reply.

Just designing a new forum and with the release of V5 not a long way away, is it better to have a Pages page as the homepage so that forums will be www.sitename/forums for when i upgrade to v5 or wont it matter?

Do you have any recommendations?

@Miss_BCheers. Will look into that later 🙂

@CoffeeCake Yeah lots to learn then. Think I’m going to learn html then css then JavaScript. Get fluent in front end and then tackle the back end. If only so that I understand plugins and how to do things. Hardest thing that I have found with code isn’t so much the code, it’s the little things that go with it such as ; < > { } etc Matt

Hi, I’m thinking of learning to code and have a few questions if anybody would be so good to reply. I presume that Invision is centred around html/css and possibly JavaScript? Not asking how long it would take to learn them as I’m sure that depends on how much time somebody can dedicate to it, how quickly they learn etc BUT if I did learn them and got pretty fluid with it, how hard is it to go from that to learning the way that Invisions sdk works. Is Invision written in the same code that I would learn with html/css etc? I think I could pick them up within a few months but I feel that the logic behind it all “I know the code but how do I do this” would be the hardest part for me.

Yeah i just wish that it could be a specific homepage that you can create articles and not have to pull from anything if you know what I mean. Not knocking your plugin, I think it’s brilliant, I’m saying more from Invision side that I wish it could be done.

Something that is built into the forum software. Something that you can rename for your home page. Something that you can decide where to pull articles from and also who can post them. I use super topics but I have to have a forum called “x” for “x” to be shown on the blocks. Just looks untidy. To clarify, a page that you can call home and it shows articles in a gorgeous template that doesn’t require a forum to be created to be the feeder to the homepage. Like burning boards has. So I could just have permissions set to admins or people who wrote articles for me, everybody else wouldn’t see then”create article” on that homepage.

Yeah that's what I meant. SO I will have the content pulling from a forum called "news & rumours" for example. Say I have 6 entries in and have the settings for 6 entries in your plugin. When I put a 7th post in the news & rumours forum , it will purge the least latest post.

So I can configure this to only show latest? Thats what I'm a after then. So basically its pulling from a forum "Articles" and showing own the homepage and I want 6 boxes , but to show the latest 6 all the time. So once I have more than 6 articles in that forum , it will always purge the ones older than the latest 6.

Hi Just wondered if @Matt is going to reply to my numerous messages on the support chat? What happened to “I’ll get right on it”??!

Does the articles one do the same?

Hi, Just installed this and its working lovely. In the block I have it set to display 6 items. When there is more in the forum that I'm pulling from , can it be set to purge the older ones and always display the newest BUT have a button to show the older ones on a slide , basically click the arrow and it shows older ones etc? Or a button that changes the block from Show 6 to show all? Matt

Aaaah SuperTopics looks much more what I'm after.

Had a video done from Matt so getting to grips with Pages and the Database etc. In the video he suggests having 2 pages , 1 for news articles (A) and 1 for a landing page (B) that pulls content from A. Could I not just pull from a forum on the main forum called "News & Articles" and have the content coming to the front landing page (B) and make it look pretty with your templates or will this only work by pulling content from a database? If so , I would need to hide Page A from the public as it will look daft.