Christmas hats component

[barryvan (Barry van Oudtshoorn)]

As Christmas approaches, you may want to add a bit of festive flair to your forum. So I present a (very simple) Christmas hats theme:

A couple of notes:

• This theme assumes list avatars are 25x25 with a 2px border all round; you may need to tweak some of the positioning in the CSS for your avatars.
• It also assumes that thread avatars are 64x64 with a 2px border all round; again, tweak the positioning as you see fit.
• To avoid excessive festiveness, not all avatars in lists will be bedecked with Christmas cheer, but once you open up a thread, everyone is part of the fun.

(Aside: it looks like I wasn’t the first to think of this!)

Enjoy!

	Preview	Theme Creator navigate to the latest / top pages or visit a topic page
	Github Repo	Discourse-Christmas-Hats
	Install Guide	How to install a theme or theme component

[Tumi]

how to “install” it?

[barryvan (Barry van Oudtshoorn)]

@Tumi

how to “install” it?

Installing a theme or theme component

This is a guide for installing and managing themes and theme components in Discourse. Required user level: Administrator Installing and customizing themes can significantly improve the look and feel of your Discourse site. You can easily import and manage themes and their components through the Discourse admin panel. This guide covers: Importing new themes and theme components Adding theme components to a theme Managing automatic updates Additional resourc…

[Pawel_Kosiorek]

Is it possible to add only hats to my current themes?

[barryvan (Barry van Oudtshoorn)]

Yep! You can add it as a “theme component” to your existing themes. This is how I’m using it.

[Pawel_Kosiorek]

Works like a charm, thank you!

[Pad_Pors]

is it possible to put the hat on a especial user? or on users of a especial group?

[Stephen]

Is it still possible to use .dcstyle.json for components? If not we should get this fixed ASAP - Christmas hats all round!

[Johani (Joe)]

@Stephen

Is it still possible to use .dcstyle.json for components?

Yes, that’s still the format you get when you export a theme / component from the admin. There are two options to get this component up to date.

1. directly edit the file to add the component flag.
2. import the component, convert it, then export it again.

Either of those options will work to ensure that the component gets imported as a… well… component.

[Jason3 (Jason)]

this is a great component. i was wondering, is there a way to add turkey wings to the profile pictures for thanksgiving?

[Stephen]

Sure, just prepare a PNG or gif with transparency, upload it and alter the CSS so that it refers to your image.

[Jason3 (Jason)]

thank you for your help, my forums are loving all the Christmas themes and hat components.
thank you for the great component to work off of, its awesome

( is there anyway to add a gif instead of a pic? i would love to add flashing lights around profile pics )

[Stephen]

Sure, GIFs support transparency. If you can make it and align it then it should work fine AFAIK.

[Jason3 (Jason)]

it works absolutely perfect, thank you, my forums are filled with so much Holiday awesomeness, thank you

[jtbayly]

Is anybody up for updating this to get it working on mobile?

[Jason3 (Jason)]

this works on mobile on my site.
i’ve changed it so there are 4 different type of hats the users can choose from

it works great

make sure you have it installed under “mobile”

and heres the css code i use

.topic-avatar {
  position: relative;
}

.topic-avatar > a::after {
  content: "";
  background-image: url($elf);
  background-size: contain;
  background-position: center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  position: absolute;
  top: -68%;
  left: -27%;
  width: 130%;
  height: 100%;
}

.topic-post:nth-of-type(2n) .topic-avatar > a::after {
  transform: rotate(-5deg) translateX(-4px);
}

.topic-post:nth-of-type(5n) .topic-avatar > a::after {
  transform: rotate(5deg) translateX(4px);
}

.topic-post:nth-of-type(3n) .topic-avatar > a::after {
  transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(5deg) translateX(-8px);
}

.topic-list .posters > a.latest {
  position: relative;
}

.topic-list .posters > a.latest::after {
  content: "";
  background-image: url($elf);
  background-size: contain;
  background-position: center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  position: absolute;
  top: -14px;
  left: -5px;
  width: 32px;
  height: 24px;
}

.topic-list tr:nth-of-type(3n) .posters > a.latest::after {
  transform: scaleX(-1);
  left: 2px;
}

[jtbayly]

Odd. I have just installed the component from the GitHub repo, enabled it in my theme, and Santa hats show up on Desktop but not on mobile for me.

Also, I tried viewing the demo with the same results.

Edit: I’m on iOS. Perhaps it’s device specific?

[Jason3 (Jason)]

i’m on IOS. i think if you install from GitHub, it installs only on desktop, you need to copy and paste and add it under “mobile”

[cpradio]

Ideally someone could update the component to use Common instead of Desktop (so it applies to both automatically)

[jtbayly]

Thanks for the help, I hadn’t read too carefully, and I’m not familiar with themes/components yet, so I was expecting it to “just work.” I’ll give it a shot with your instructions.

@cpradio

Ideally someone could update the component to use Common instead of Desktop

Yeah, that’d be nice. It’s a bit beyond my ability at the moment, I’m afraid, or I’d try to contribute back in that way.