Layouts Plugin

angus · August 15, 2019, 9:38pm

Yes you can!

There’s both a server-side and client-side interface for adding widgets.

Import this function

import { addCustomWidget } from 'discourse/plugins/discourse-layouts/discourse/widgets/sidebar';

Then use it like this in an initializer

addCustomWidget({
  name: <widget name>,
  position: <side you want it to appear on>,
  order: <order relative to other widgets on the same side>
})

Also make sure it’s enabled, either site-wide (in site settings) or for a specific category (in category settings).

ckshen · September 9, 2019, 7:17am

angus:

using CSS to make the map bigger, like taller in height, for example.

You can do this by adding some custom css to your theme in Admin > Customize. The rule you want to change is:
.nav-container .locations-map:not(.expanded) {
  height: 170px;
}
Make sure you include the :not(.expanded) .

Any idea if the CSS for this needs to be changed recently? Just updated to the latest and the CSS doesn’t work any more. I still see the use of .nav-container and .locations-map when I inspect the elements from the browser.

Cheers.

angus · September 11, 2019, 10:23am

Nothing changed in the plugin, but the Discourse css might have changed.

This is the topic list Map right? Try

#list-area .locations-map:not(.expanded) {
  ...
}

ckshen · September 11, 2019, 3:33pm

Thanks, but no luck. Threw just about every element in there and no change:

.list-area .widget-container .nav-container .leaflet-container .locations-map:not(.expanded) {
  height: 750px;
}

ckshen · September 11, 2019, 3:35pm

Solved it: need the !important comment. thanks for the help.

.nav-container .locations-map:not(.expanded) {
  height: 750px !important;
}

tohaitrieu · October 7, 2019, 3:42am

It’s working fine in my website at https://babyforex.net. But, if you use right sidebar in Topic View, You shouldn’t use DiscoTOC: DiscoTOC - automatic table of contents

tohaitrieu · October 21, 2019, 9:29am

At the topic Page,

Post Navigation is hidden.

I think Post Navigation can move to left of site and Sidebar is on the right site.

ashishsecdev · December 25, 2019, 10:33pm

Is it showing me error - “No setting named 'layouts_sidebar_left_enabled” exists and same for any settings that I am trying to make in it.

merefield · December 27, 2019, 7:40am

Can you please elaborate on the steps you are taking to get that error? Please provide enough detail so that someone can reproduce it.

Are you using an up-to-date official Discourse build? We only support our plugins on tests-passed branch.

ashishsecdev · December 27, 2019, 8:24am

Thanks Robert for your reply, I am using the Bitnami AWS instance and is using the documentation as per https://docs.bitnami.com/general/apps/discourse/configuration/install-plugins/, ideally it should have worked but not sure why it isnt able to identify the assets.

merefield · December 27, 2019, 8:38am

Yep please use the official Discourse builds instead. Use of Bitnami is at your own risk.

ashishsecdev · December 27, 2019, 7:50pm

Thanks for you assistance, sure…I will set that up on Digital Ocean and will confirm if issue persists.

tohaitrieu · March 10, 2020, 2:21pm

This Plugin is broken with Fakebook theme.

merefield · March 15, 2020, 7:11am

You could equally say Fakebook is broken with this plugin?

We support core Discourse and if a theme works, great. If not, you are probably out of luck.

Whilst we make great efforts to optimise compatibility we can’t promise all themes will work with our plugins. Especially those combinations where our plugin and the Theme are both changing templates.

If you want to use a Theme with this plugin choose a lighter weight Theme that has less or no impact on layout.

Fakebook already has its own sidebars and almost certainly won’t have been designed to work with this plugin (otherwise why doesn’t it use the CL sidebars?). It is also targeting core Discourse no doubt. You’ll probably have to choose between them. Or, use CL and borrow elements from Fakebook and design your own Theme.

There’s currently a Chrome limitation that prevents us fully exploiting Topic List Previews with sidebars. Watch this space…

exetico · April 25, 2020, 10:47am

It’s currently broken, for some reason.

** INCOMPATIBLE PLUGIN **

You are unable to build Discourse due to errors in the plugin at
/var/www/discourse/plugins/layouts-topic-list

We’ve removed it on our site.

angus · April 25, 2020, 11:00am

The plugin has just undergone a significant update.

https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-layouts/commit/a47cf304684baac5f380ba25a49c86f33858159d

You can now add theme components as widgets (in addition to plugins). I’ve updated the widget you’ve been using to support v0.2

https://github.com/angusmcleod/layouts-topic-list/commit/548503d6c01622afe5ca17fc63da343d4ab7ba5d

However I would recommend the new theme version of the same widget (with some functionality improvments and changes)

https://github.com/paviliondev/layouts-topic-lists-widget

Generally the plugin is moving away from using plugins for widgets to using themes. Full documentation to follow in the next day or so.

Note that the plugin now has support for group-specific permissions, so make sure this is set in /admin/layouts.

This plugin will also soon be moving to the same update schedule as our other plugins; see further:

exetico · April 25, 2020, 11:13am

It’s GREAT NEWS! I just written the same to another person, and suggested, that we moved to a theme-component based solution. Thanks for the update!

angus · April 25, 2020, 11:15am

Please PM me with your use case so I can help you get setup with the new theme-supporting version

tohaitrieu · April 28, 2020, 6:47am

When I update Discourse to the latest version, Theme Minimal - The Plugin is not working.

My Forum: Https://babyforex/net

angus · April 28, 2020, 12:17pm

Hey, welcome

Can you give me some more specifics on the issue? What widgets are you trying to use?

A key thing to note is that the plugin now has enabled and group settings for each widget. That’s the first thing to check.

I’m still working on the documenation for v0.2 (literally right now!), and v0.2 won’t be officially launched until the next Pavilion Plugin Update Period: 2020-04-30T14:00:00Z → 2020-05-04T14:00:00Z.

If you look at try.thepavilion.io you’ll see that the plugin is working successfully with the current version of discourse (just updated): Layouts - Try Pavilion