Classic About Statistics

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

	Summary	Replace old About statistics
	Preview	About our Club - Grey Arrows Drone Club UK
	Repository	GitHub - literatecomputing/classic-about-statistics
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Display the old about statistics under the moderators and hide the new statistics on the right sidebar.

At the time I wrote this the statistics in the right sidebar are not wrapped in a single class, so I had to hide the <h3> header with last-child. I’m not sure how fragile that might be.

Thanks to @Richie and the Grey Arrows Drone Club for paying to develop this theme component and it’s continued maintenance for the first year.

[merefield (Robert)]

It wasn’t obvious you were up to something like this at all

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Not to those in the know, and especially, those who know more than I do! It’s rare that I get anything done without asking for help here, even if I’m the one who ends up providing it.

[merefield (Robert)]

Firstly, it’s great to have something from “legacy” that’s actually useful but for whatever reason gets removed so thanks for keeping this around.

Secondly, been there, done that … I often post then up to a day later solve my own problem so know where you are coming from!

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

@merefield

it’s great to have something from “legacy” that’s actually useful but for whatever reason gets removed

Agreed

Great Theme component, thanks @pfaffman

[ToddZ]

@pfaffman

At the time I wrote this the statistics in the right sidebar are not wrapped in a single class, so I had to hide the <h3> header with last-child. I’m not sure how fragile that might be.

Cool – I approached this with nth-of-type rather than last-child. For anyone wanting to suppress the new stats without restoring old stats, a little CSS clip over here (currently) works:

New and improved About page at /about is live

Hiding “Site activity” section The old About page had a “stats” class on a div that allowed “Site activity” to be easily suppressed via custom CSS: //suppress site statistics on old About page .stats { display: none; } The new About page lacks this div class. It would be nice to have, but for anyone else not wanting site stats shown, here’s a way to suppress the separate elements as they’re currently rendered: // suppress site statistics on NEW About page .about__right-side H3:nth-of-ty…

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Thanks, @ToddZ! I would have used the nth- version if I knew anything about css. I’ll integrate your code tomorrow or next week.

Maybe I’ll submit a PR with the proper class so these css tricks aren’t required.

[ToddZ]

I don’t know if one hack is any better than the other, as long as they work

But yeah, a stats class around the whole thing would be handier.

[Lilly]

nice work!

@pfaffman

Replace old About statistics

I think perhaps the description should be “replace new about statistics with classic view” or something similar.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

@Lilly

the description should be “replace new about statistics with classic view” or something similar

Maybe just:

Replace the about statistics with the classic statistics table

ie. Remove the word “new”, as the new about page won’t stay new for long