# Sam's Simple Theme
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552
**Category:** Theme
**Tags:** official, sams-simple-theme
**Created:** [31 december 2014 om 03:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552 "2014-12-31T03:20:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 13
### Author:  [@Mooash](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mooash)
#### Post date: [22 maart 2017 om 04:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/248 "2017-03-22T04:08:57Z")
On mobile the topic description seems to bleed outside the view port due to:
```css
.topic-list .topic-excerpt {
padding-right: 0;
width: 120%;
}
```
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [18 april 2017 om 19:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/249 "2017-04-18T19:32:58Z")
This should no longer be the case case the theme explicitly only defines desktop behavior.
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### Author:  [@Mooash](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mooash)
#### Post date: [18 april 2017 om 23:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/250 "2017-04-18T23:30:10Z")
Sweet! Any chance of getting an export for the theme or are all the sections above up to date?
**Edit:** NVM, just found the GitHub repo.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [17 mei 2017 om 19:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/251 "2017-05-17T19:54:16Z")
Now that we have native themes, perhaps you can share your theme via a github repo?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [6 juni 2017 om 13:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/252 "2017-06-06T13:28:18Z")
I just added tags, so be sure to pull latest.
I experimented with a few positions and feel this works best for me.
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### Author:  [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [7 juni 2017 om 15:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/253 "2017-06-07T15:34:05Z")
I really like this theme, but it doesn’t honor the `prioritize username in ux` setting. I have it deselected, but this theme’s topic list still shows me usernames instead of full names.
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### Author:  [@smaffulli](https://meta.discourse.org/u/smaffulli)
#### Post date: [19 juni 2017 om 19:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/254 "2017-06-19T19:43:22Z")
I love this theme too but I have found out that when it’s enabled I can’t see the menu for bulk actions.
This is what I see with a ‘full’ Material theme
but I don’t see a way to enable the bulk selection with minimal:
Am I missing something?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [19 juni 2017 om 19:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/255 "2017-06-19T19:46:40Z")
Nope, just a bug in the theme I should get fixed 🐛
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### Author:  [@smaffulli](https://meta.discourse.org/u/smaffulli)
#### Post date: [30 juni 2017 om 18:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/256 "2017-06-30T18:07:28Z")
@sam any idea of when you may have time to fix it? Or any pointers to what may need adjusting, I may be able to do this myself 🙂 I would like to put this in production but I can’t if it hides important management features.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [30 juni 2017 om 18:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/257 "2017-06-30T18:50:27Z")
Sorry about the delay, fixed per:
[https://github.com/SamSaffron/discourse-simple-theme/commit/74f5e0dc426b8eed181ac5843e97d97d276ca94d](https://github.com/SamSaffron/discourse-simple-theme/commit/74f5e0dc426b8eed181ac5843e97d97d276ca94d)
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### Author:  [@Pawel\_Kosiorek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pawel_Kosiorek)
#### Post date: [12 juli 2017 om 19:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/258 "2017-07-12T19:03:47Z")
Hi!
Something very weird happened to my minimal theme 😉
Do you have any idea how to fix it?
Cheers!
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### Author:  [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [12 juli 2017 om 19:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/259 "2017-07-12T19:17:45Z")
Probably, need a website to see where css. As a rule, it is sufficient to add a fixed column width or set the width in percent.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [12 juli 2017 om 19:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/260 "2017-07-12T19:18:27Z")
Yeah this is a bug in the theme, #pr-welcome to fix it.
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### Author:  [@Pawel\_Kosiorek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pawel_Kosiorek)
#### Post date: [12 juli 2017 om 19:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/261 "2017-07-12T19:21:23Z")
I’m more backend-Linux-bash-script person than CSS guru 😉 But thanks for hint, I’ll try to figure it out.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Veenema](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Justin_Veenema)
#### Post date: [30 augustus 2017 om 18:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/262 "2017-08-30T18:37:43Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> I beg to differ! Lots of info there.
>
> 1. Size, if \< 5 avatars then it’s a limited discussion, if 2 it’s “get a room you two”, if 1 it’s a topic nobody replied to
>
> 2. Noobiness. Lots of letter avatars? Drive-by participants, probably.
>
> 3. Recognition. I know the kinds of topics I can expect from certain folks here and sometimes I am excited (or.. not excited..) when I see who started the topic or posted last.
>
> 4. It’s also faster to recognize avatars than name words for me.
>
> 5. These are my peeps. My people. I need to see them. It’s like Cheers, you want to go to the place where everyone knows your … avatar
I fully agree with this @codinghorror. For me, seeing that a large number of people are chiming in makes me get major FOMO. What are they talking about? What am I missing?
In fact, we just switched our homepage to the **Category / Latest Topics** view, but the thing that I’m _really_ missing from the **Latest** view is how activity is displayed in the form of avatars.
I tried to make a mock-up of my dream layout, but I’m not sure if I’m communicating the idea well enough. We might end up hiring a dev to help us make this change, but I’d love to hear from others on what they think.
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [15 januari 2018 om 08:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/264 "2018-01-15T08:31:43Z")
This totally depends on your community. For us the avatars on the index page are just clown vomit.
The reason is that 99% of the topics on our would have the maximum number of avatars shown. This produces a wide and colorful column to the middle of the screen, which has too much weight against a natural white background, and adds very little information as all topics are popular - everybody jumps to every topic. Very different to the user behavior that we see for example here.
One way to look at it is the topics/posts ratio. Here at Meta there are **160** new topics and **2.8k** posts for the last 7 days. On our community there are only **22** topics but **4.1k** posts for the same period.
The avatars do work on small and growing communities, as it makes the front page look busy / active.
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### Author:  [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [6 juni 2018 om 07:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/265 "2018-06-06T07:58:55Z")
Do not know where to add, I want to share. In this example, you can see how to change the individual elements in the design. I do not know how true this approach is.
**Add:**
PLAGIN/assets/javascripts/discourse/helpers/catid-img.js.es6
```plaintext
import { registerUnbound } from 'discourse-common/lib/helpers';
var get = Em.get,
escapeExpression = Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression;
export function categoryBadgeHTML(category, opts) {
opts = opts || {};
let categoryID = escapeExpression(get(category, 'id'));
let img = Discourse.Category.findById(categoryID).uploaded_logo.url;
let categoryName = escapeExpression(get(category, 'name'));
let url = opts.url ? opts.url : Discourse.getURL("/c/") + Discourse.Category.slugFor(category);
return `
`;
}
export function categoryLinkHTML(category, options) {
var categoryOptions = {};
return new Handlebars.SafeString(categoryBadgeHTML(category, categoryOptions));
}
registerUnbound('catid-img', categoryLinkHTML);
```
**Add:**
```plaintext
{{catid-img topic.category}}
```
The output of category icons:
P.S. perhaps this can be done in another way, more easier, but it is easier for me to add 1 file to the plugin.
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### Author:  [@anon36484860](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon36484860)
#### Post date: [22 juni 2018 om 10:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/266 "2018-06-22T10:23:12Z")
How can we contribute translations to the theme?
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### Author:  [@Tungki\_Reza\_Prasakti](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tungki_Reza_Prasakti)
#### Post date: [28 juni 2018 om 20:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/267 "2018-06-28T20:27:26Z")
How to fix this, i already disable the Topic List Preview plugin but still same as picture below
Replies Last Post are on wrong section, and view count still visible
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### Author:  [@anon36484860](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon36484860)
#### Post date: [13 november 2018 om 17:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552/268 "2018-11-13T17:21:22Z")
@sam
> [@anon36484860](#):
>
> How can we contribute translations to the theme?
pushing this 🙂
> [@Tungki\_Reza\_Prasakti](#):
>
> Replies Last Post are on wrong section, and view count still visible
the same issue appeared for me today. My discourse runs on 2.1.3.
[Vorige pagina](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552.md?page=12)
[Volgende pagina](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-simple-theme/23552.md?page=14)