hello! i’m working on creating a simple plugin that allows a category to be assigned a font awesome icon. The icon will display instead of an image if one is not set. I’m not really interested in doing it with a theme-specific hack like :before CSS because I’d like it to be something settable in the category settings panel - indeed I’ve already got that part working. Here’s my code so far: plugin.rb # name: category-icons # about: Allows fa-icons to be used as category graphics. # version: 0.1 # authors: Flower_Child # url: https://github.com/tipsypastels/category-icons after_initialize do Category.register_custom_field_type('fa_icon', :string) add_to_serializer(:basic_category, :fa_icon) do object.custom_fields['fa_icon'] end end assets/javascripts/discourse/connectors/category-custom-settings/fa-icon-settings.js.es6 export default { setupComponent(args, component) { const category = args.category; if (!category.custom_fields) { category.custom_fields = {}; } if (typeof args.category.custom_fields['fa_icon'] !== 'string') { args.category.custom_fields['fa_icon'] = ''; } } } assets/javascripts/discourse/connectors/category-custom-settings/fa-icon-settings.hbs {{i18n 'fa_icon_categories.fa_icon'}} {{input type="text" value=category.custom_fields.fa_icon}} Those are all the files I have so far - I’ve tried adding more based on things I’ve seen in other plugins but haven’t made any headway. This bit works in the sense of adding a custom field to the category settings, and the value I enter into it persists, but I can’t actually make it display on the categories list page. Using {{category.fa_icon}} or {{category.custom_fields.fa_icon}} in a theme-specific customization to categories-only.hbs or other templates is just blank. Does it take more than this to be able to use custom fields in a template? I’m not sure what I’m missing. Is there any resource for how to use these in detail?

Questions about category custom fields

Flower_Child (Dakota) April 29, 2018, 11:23pm 2

no one have any ideas? i havent made much progress. idk how the people who do make plugins are figuring stuff like this out when there’s no documentation on it.

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