Hi @tshenry I am using the Versatile Banner theme-component but it disappears when I uncheck “display on desktop”.
Indeed I would like to display the banner only on mobiles.
But when I uncheck the “display on desktop”… both desktop and mobile Versatile Banner disappear.
Here is the site if you want to check : https://hec.fm
Did I miss something ?
Is it possible to have the links displayed horizontally on mobile as well? I was a bit surprised to see them show up underneath each other in stead of horizontally.
Thanks for reporting this! Sorry for the delayed response. I can reproduce what you describe. I’m pretty sure I know what’s going on. I’ll take a look later this week and get back to you.
The height of the banner is primarily dependent on its content, but you can adjust anything as needed with your own CSS. I’m not sure how well you will be able to fit three columns horizontally on mobile, but you can certainly try with custom CSS as well! Have a look at How to make CSS changes on your site for some tips.
I think I’m experiencing a bug on my site with regards to cookie lifespan in maintaining the expanded/collapsed state. What I want is for my site to remember when users collapse the banner and expand the banner, and keep it on whatever they have no matter what. And it works as expected when I stay on the home page or click on topics. However, as soon as I go to the admin panel, user settings, faq, about, tos, privacy, or docs, and then return to the home page, things get wacky, and sometimes the banner is the opposite of what it was set to, and sometimes even the chevron icon to indicate collapse or expand is in the incorrect orientation.
Here, the chevron icon is up:
But after clicking on docs, and then returning to the homepage, the chevron icon is in the opposite orientation.
This seems like pretty strange behavior…
Just discovered that the Versatile Banner isn’t appearing on the login page for our forum (it’s a private forum) like it used to.
‘Display the banner for anonymous users’ is checked in the component settings
Looking at the html there is a div with class ‘banner-box’ inside a nest of divs with classes ‘emberX’ but nothing inside the div with class ‘banner-box’ - unlike the html for logged in users.
Any idea what could be going wrong?
I just pushed a small update to the component.
This should be fixed with the above. I’m really sorry it took so long to get a fix in place. Thanks again for your report!
You will need to add /login to the url must contain theme setting. See this post for more detail.
This has been reported once or twice in the past. Unfortunately I have never able to reproduce it. I’ll try again when I get a chance using your exact steps and see if I have any luck.
I’m using versatile banner and i try to turn the banner into a giant link that redirect to another website
how can i do that ?
try to change-it via un script : '“api.changeWidgetSetting(‘banner-content-widget’, ‘href’, '<site_adresse>” but the versatille banner stop working
Thanks, that’s great. It’s working perfectly now! 
You might be able to do something like:
<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.10.0">
// Add the link to the heading
api.reopenWidget("banner-box-widget", {
html(attrs) {
let bannerBox = this._super();
bannerBox[0].children[1].tagName = "A";
bannerBox[0].children[1].properties.href = "https://meta.discourse.org";
return bannerBox;
}
});
// Add the link to the rest of the content
api.reopenWidget("banner-content-widget", {
html(attrs) {
let bannerContent = this._super();
bannerContent.tagName = "A";
bannerContent.properties.href = "https://meta.discourse.org";
return bannerContent;
}
});
</script>
And add a CSS rule to adjust the link color
.banner-box a {
color: var(--primary);
}
Unless there’s specific functionality you need that the Versatile Banner offers, I wonder if you would be better off just making your own simple HTML banner in a new component. Rough example:
Add the following to the Common “After Header” section:
<a href="https://meta.discourse.org">
<div class="custom-banner">
<h2>This is a customer banner!</h2>
</div>
</a>
and the following to the Common “CSS” section:
.custom-banner {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
width: $large-width; // 1110px
height: 200px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
background: grey;
color: white;
}
That would give you a simple banner that’s fully clickable:
I’m installing this component from git, but it seems that I didn’t got the latest codes, FIX: Work with new sticky header and move away from deprecated $.cookie · tshenry/discourse-versatile-banner@0939120 · GitHub wasn’t updated in my site https://ygobbs.com/.
This is because you are running Discourse version 2.6.0.beta2. The commit you linked to requires 2.6.0.beta3 and above. You’ll notice that the commit you linked to has added a discourse-compatibility file to ensure you don’t update to a commit that is incompatible with your Discourse version.
wow it is amazing that discourse will find elder version for me instead of preventing me to install the component. Thank you!
Hi @tshenry
I want to install the component more than once so that I can use each component to give different categories different banners; therefore, I disabled the show on homepage and used the URL must contain, but this stops the main one which I use to display it in the homepage only. Would you either give me a different solution or is this a bug? Thanks! (:
I’m afraid installing this component multiple times will not work. Your best option at this point is likely to pay someone to build you a custom solution via the #marketplace
I have only had time to address bug reports on this component for the past while, but in the next year or two, I plan to do a major overhaul that will hopefully facilitate even more versatility.
I’m using the component settings to only show the banner on specific pages. I came across two glitches in the css:
To supress both I have to declare .banner-box {display: none;} and then add display declarations for the specific pages where it’s supposed to show.
I feel like this may be a more general FAQ but I’m wondering how to deliver different graphics for desktop and mobile users?
Where are you hoping to have these graphics appear? There are definitely ways you can conditionally display things based on desktop/mobile status, but the approach to take will depend on what you are trying to do.
I’m using versatile banner to deliver a christmas message, including a graphic, so I want to be able to do this within the context of versatile banner.
Hmm, in that case you might be able to add something like the following to one of the Versatile Banner’s “content” settings:
<div class="xmas-banner-image"></div>
And then add some CSS to your main theme or a new component. Here’s an example where you can replace LINK_TO_MOBILE_IMAGE with the actual image link:
.mobile-view .xmas-banner-image {
background-image: url("LINK_TO_MOBILE_IMAGE");
height: 50px;
background-position: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: contain;
}
.desktop-view .xmas-banner-image {
background-image: url("LINK_TO_DESKTOP_IMAGE");
height: 200px;
background-position: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: contain;
}
You’ll have to tinker with the CSS, but hopefully that gets you started.