Fakebook, a theme for social media lovers

[Don]

Yes that is correct. The first what I quote is Fakebook theme and the second one what I use is Fakebook Modern theme.

[Mohit_Jindal]

Hey, @Don https://theme-creator.discourse.org/ shows the latest topics directly, how do I configure this? I currently see categories as well which I don’t want to show in the center column to give the feel like a Facebook feed.

[Don]

You can configure it in admin settings. Or as a User in user settings.

As a User:

You can select in the interface area. Click here! and change the Default Home Page section.

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As an Admin:

Go to this page: /admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=Top%20menu

And change this section:

[Mohit_Jindal]

Thanks @Don

This is exciting stuff. I wonder if there is a plugin that I can add which will allow me to have an entire suite of emojis on the “posts”? Well, I am essentially trying to explore if I can migrate my community from FB to Discourse to get more control over the data and have some on platform SEO advantages.

[thegurjyot (Gurjyot Singh)]

This theme is actually quite good, but doesn’t it provide a way to have Custom CSS/HTML like the light and dark theme provide? I would have wanted the In House Ads to show in this theme but there’s no way to writer custom CSS in this theme…

Moreover, if we have category style to BOX then, the height of box is quite big.

[Johani (Joe)]

@thegurjyot

doesn’t it provide a way to have Custom CSS/HTML like the light and dark theme provide?

Have a look here

Restrict editing of remote themes

For quite a while, best practice has been to avoid editing themes installed from a remote Git repository locally on Discourse. Any changes to theme code or uploads get wiped out when updating the theme from the remote repo. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/65e123498b4f8f260a8461e48995a3ca166b605e In this commit, we’ve removed the ability to locally edit a remote theme and are now enforcing this best practice in Discourse. What happens if I have a remote theme with local changes? …

@thegurjyot

I would have wanted the In House Ads to show in this theme but there’s no way to writer custom CSS in this theme

You never needed to edit the theme’s CSS for house ads. You should create a new theme component with your CSS and add it to the theme.

House Ad Templates

IF YOU ARE RUNNING AN AD BLOCKER RIGHT NOW, YOU MAY HAVE A VERY BAD TIME TRYING TO SET THIS UP! TURN IT OFF BEFORE WORKING WITH AD RELATED CUSTOMIZATIONS! You’ve been warned. The Official Discourse Ad Plugin ships with a House Ad feature that allows you to create ads for your site using HTML and CSS. You can find the discussion for this feature at House Ads in the official Ad Plugin. The purpose of this topic is to provide basic templates as a starting point for creating y…

@thegurjyot

Moreover, if we have category style to BOX then, the height of box is quite big.

This is a potential improvement

Can you please let me know where you see this issue?

[thegurjyot (Gurjyot Singh)]

@Johani

You never needed to edit the theme’s CSS for house ads. You should create a new theme component with your CSS and add it to the theme.

That’s a valid point for sure and I’ll make sure to make the change as soon as possible on my website.

@Johani

This is a potential improvement

Can you please let me know where you see this issue?

Here’s an image to show the issue. You can also see that the “#” in front of categories is also miss-aligned somehow.

[hyd504]

The profile section of Fakebook theme needs some padding.

[Cédric_DANIEL (Cédric TWIZA)]

Hello,
Is it possible to see your website please ? It helps me to understand this theme.
Thx a lot
Cédric

[Don]

Hello,
Sure! You can see it here:

Vaperina

[Jack_Ukleja]

Love this theme. Great work @awesomerobot and @jordan-vidrine

Not sure where to lodge bug reports & suggestions for Facebook-modern so am just dropping them here for now:

• Global pinned topics i.e. banners, push the left-hand navigation bar over to the right
• Banners are slightly illegible due to light blue background and dark blue hyperlinks
• Links for topic on the topic list appear to be links to most recent comment, not to OP. This is confusing for users as they often end up seeing nothing but the ‘footer’ after clicking a topic.
• Suggested topics are left-aligned, whereas the current topic is centred. I guess it would look better all centred?
• Be awesome if the onebox previews for topics generated from hyperlinks, were actually hyperlinked. i.e. if you click the image it will take you to the external site. Currently the image is not hyperlinked at all. Also be great if these opened in a new tab.
• Be great if the end of the excerpt read See more instead of Read more... (also made bold to match FB)
• Clicking the little speech bubble at the bottom of a topic, bring up a strange up/down spinner with timestamps that appears to take you the prev/next post (?). This is confusing. I assume this might be a bug?
• Onebox images are not displaying in the Topic list previews. Although they seemed to be intially, I’m wondering if this was only in the ‘leftover’ posts from when I was testing TLP?

I may make some PRs for this once I figure out my way around Discourse a bit more! Cheers

[png (Portable Network Graphics)]

Great! Now you gotta do Twitter or Insta

Ok, but all jokes aside, this is a greatly created theme, and it looks similar to FaceBook. must have taken a long time to create it.

[Jack_Ukleja]

Does anyone know how you get the onebox previews to work for plain websites? They only seem to work for me if I use a YouTube link.

I’m talking about in the topic list. Once you click into the topic the oneboxes seem to work universally.

[gmm.su (Mars)]

how do I fix this?

There is also a problem when you go to the category page

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Thanks for letting me know! I’ve updated the theme with some fixes.

[Pandabear]

Can somebody help me? I have the theme installed on my website
My forum is www.holaforo.com
I would like it to have these functions:

Does anyone know the way that the initial post looks whole in the latest news?

[anon82467725]

Does Fakebook work with Retort and Discourse Reactions?

[Zup]

i want the theme to be applied only for ‘Latest’ and ‘Top’ and certain categories. possible?

[pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj)]

No, that’s not possible.

[anon82467725]

Personally, I would like to see a Google+ theme. Just throwing it out there. I definitely dont miss Google+ or anything like that…

Regardless, Fakebook is one of my favorite themes for Discourse.