Blog post plugin

Plugin
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I haven’t looked at this in over a year, so I’m not surprised that it’s broken. Since Discourse now adds a Category class to the body tag, it should be fairly simple to give individual styles to categories. For example, this post has the class category-plugin-broken-plugin to indicate its parent and sub category.

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Just checked the source on the body tag on my Discourse and there is no category class there. Is that supposed to be on by default?

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Yes, it should be added. You need to select ‘inspect’ for the page, not ‘view page source.’ On Chrome, right click and select ‘inspect’ from the menu. On Firefox, select ‘inspect element.’

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ok, I see it now. That’s … weird. Why doesn’t the page source show css classes, is that an ember thing?

Going to load your plugin’s css on one of my categories… fingers crossed.

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It’s added with javascript.

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Ok this is quick and dirty. I used the css below to hide some page elements give a more streamlined look to posts in a given category. It’s not a blog, but it’s something.

.category-your-category-name .topic-meta-data {
  display: none;
}

.category-your-category-name .topic-avatar {
  display: none;
}

.category-your-category-name .topic-timeline {
  display: none;
}

.category-your-category-name #topic-footer-buttons  {
  display: none;
}

.category-your-category-name #main-outlet {
  padding-left: 40px;
}
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So the plugin working ? or not?

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NOT WORKING!

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This plugin is not working. That is why this topic is in the #plugin:broken-plugin category.

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Any real alternative to this plugin? I liked how the blog was shown and I don’t really like how WP-Discourse works

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The easiest alternative would be to use the category class that is added to the body tag of each Discourse topic to create CSS styles for a category. I think that everything this plugin was doing can now be done in a Discourse theme.

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