Blog Post Styling

Theme component
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@oshyan what a lovely site! I especially like your Categories drop-down!

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This is actively on my list to try to get working. I just finished some fixes and updates to another component, so Iā€™ll see what I can do with this one as soon as possible. Thereā€™s lots on my plate right now, so it might be a little bit. If for some reason you havenā€™t heard anything in a month, please poke me :slight_smile:

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:point_right: poke poke :grin: My writing is frequently long-form and I make perhaps more use of headers than the average person. But I also really like the Blog Post Styling! Hope they can be made to coexist in peace. :slightly_smiling_face:

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How can I reduce the text size? I donā€™t want to use it as 1.25em. I tried to reduce it to 1em with CSS tricks, but it didnā€™t work.

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@tshenry I noticed a few bugs in the blog post styling (also present in the theme preview):

  1. Comment backgrounds are all messed up, and have a weird grey-ish background:

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  2. Zooming in on the page, the blog post starts to overtake the sidebar:

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  3. User profile pictures and badges seem far too close to their title, date posted, etc. (see above image)

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Hi Rootzilla,

Sorry for the late reply. You can change the font size using this CSS:

.category-blog .topic-post:first-child {
    font-size: 1em;
}
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Iā€™m having an odd bug with just one topic. Others are working fine. The top image doesnā€™t show up and any image i put there just goes missing. I canā€™t see whatā€™s going on at all.

Its this one: Take A Smile - Approved Activities List - Public Happiness

Iā€™ve turned off blog styling so the image shows now. If i turn it on again that image disappears.

The only clue i have is that the thumb image in the subcategory also wonā€™t show for this thread and this thread only.

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Is it just me or after a recent core update headings became smaller on topics that use the blog styles:
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Same here - a lot of bugs appearing since Discourse 3 (and before with experimental features), is this component still updated?

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Trying this out in a new community, and noticing some styling issues on a mostly (I think, in this regard) vanilla community.

Is this component still supported?

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Not sure if it is officially still supported but I use this theme component and it works as advertised in self hosted up to date install. example

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@tshenry

thanks for this nice component. 2 suggestions

when open a topic to display as blog (in the category or with the tag)

  • possible to have the sidebar menu auto-hidden ? this will make it looks more like a blog page.
    find Donā€™s component: Can I default to a hidden sidebar? - #4 by Don
    could do that and add it as a setting for default ux (hidden or show) ā€¦
  • possible to have it stay in the first post of the topic (the blog), instead of jumping to the last read reply (the built-in experience). not sure which way is better for a blog page tho.

thanks

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I had started to do some work on a fix and polish update ages ago, but havenā€™t been able to carve out enough space to wrap it up. I know there were some rough edges starting to show following core changes, and I think there have been some longstanding challenges as far as compatibility with DiscoTOC.

Let me see if I can get some thoughts from the team on what the future of this component should look like. At the moment itā€™s still technically an unofficial, personally managed component.

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I think some kind of official ā€˜blogā€™ styling with little fuss fits an awful lot of folks needs/desires but your component @tshenry is a wonderful contribution and it works for me and thank you