Welcome Link Banner

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I’m doing some testing (over months…don’t ask).

Coming back to it - it looks like since an update, the welcome bar now only appears when the user is logged out.

Is there a way to have the bar appear for everyone - regardless of log in status?

Thanks

Martyn

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I just tested it a bit and don’t see this issue, is it possible you’ve dismissed the banner by clicking the x in the corner? if that’s the case you’d have to clear your browser’s localStorage to see it again

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Good shout - will give it a look
Thanks

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Tried clearing localstorage - tried clearing browser data - tried on Edge (I’m going to be trying to scrub myself clean for weeks!) … still no joy :frowning:

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How did you configure the max trust level and hide for staff settings?
Did you try with a new user created for testing?

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I would like to make different banners visible for registered and unregistered users or should not all links of the banner be visible for unregistered users. Is that possible?

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@Aurora

One way would be to create links for logged-in users and follow the links for logged-out users (in order, so you have two groups of links).

Then, with some CSS, you hide one group or another.
There is a CSS anon class you could use.

For example, let’s say you have two links for logged-in users and 3 for logged-out users:

  • logged-in link 1
  • logged-in link 2
  • logged-out link 1
  • logged-out link 2
  • logged-out link 3

In CSS, you can do:

/* Logged-out users: Hides the first two links */
html.anon .featured-banner-link > div:nth-child(-n+2) {
    display: none !important;
}

/* Logged-in users: Hides the last three links */
html:not(.anon) .featured-banner-link > div:nth-last-child(-n+3) {
    display: none !important;
}

Would that work with you?

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Yes! Thank you very much! That’s really helpful!

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In the links area, on the icon field, wouldn’t it be possible to have it autocomplete to make it easier to find the icon we want?

If not, at least including a direct link to the FontAwesome website would make it more obvious that that’s the icon provider, as well as directing the person directly to the source.

For example, I downloaded the component and installed, then when I was creating the link I had to go back to this topic to read about it again to then know that it’s FontAwesome. Just a suggestion to make it faster and easier to add icons.

EDIT: I used the name on their website, but it doesn’t add the icons:

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For example this one:

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which seems to be free:

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So which ones are we supposed to use?

I also noticed an issue with the Summary here on this topic. It says Welcome Link Banner is a simple banner that allows you to add custom text and 1-4 links, but it actually lets me add more links. I was able to add 6 (and if I keep clicking it keeps adding more links).

If 4 is indeed the goal, then I believe it would be better if after adding the 4th link, the + banner link disappeared or got grayed out.

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I agree that it would be handy. This is not specific to this TC, though. Some input types are unavailable in TC compared to core/plugins.

I will see if I can PR to improve the description.

You might also need to add icons that aren’t included in Discourse by default to the svg_icons setting

This should be your issue.

Yes, you can add as much as you want. There is no limit.
It implies that it’s designed to work best with 1-4 links.

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thanks

Oh, I didn’t know that it doesn’t load all available icons. I thought it was reading from the FA website directly. I added an icon that wasn’t loading and it’s visible now. Thank you so much.
How can I see which ones are available? Is there a list or is it like adding, seeing if it doesn’t show, and then add it?

I see. I think it’s the wording then. Maybe something along the lines of
Welcome Link Banner is a simple banner that allows you to add custom text and links (recommended: up to 4 links). or something like that.

Thank you so much for your help. Glad that the icons are now visible! :slight_smile:

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Yes, that would be the easiest way.

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