User Homepage Selector 1.0.1
https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/userhomepage-plugin-1.0.1Allow a user to select their own homepage preference.
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Re: I have broken vanilla
Probably some permission error. I think permissions got changed in Vanilla 2.2? In the mean time you could set the admin flag of your user to 1 using some database viewer.
If you search around I think there are some Vanilla 2.0/2.1 upgrade threads where people had similar issues.
Re: pockets into php files
Look at the function.pocket.php Smarty plugin, it contains the following code:
function smarty_function_pocket($params, $smarty) {
if (!class_exists('PocketsPlugin')) {
return '';
}
$name = val('name', $params);
unset($params['name']);
$result = PocketsPlugin::pocketString($name, $params);
return $result;
}
Therefore, if you directly wan to use php, I guess it should work with echo PocketsPlugin::pocketString('pocket_01');
R_J
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Re: Vanilla 3.1 is now available
Aware of the issue. There will be a new rich quite in the next release. It’s already fixed on master.
Summer/Fall 2019 Roadmap & Development
I understand these kind of announcements have been kind of ad-hoc in the past, but I'd like to do them more frequently in the future. My intention is to outline in broad strokes what features and parts of the framework we'll be working on in the next few months.
Warning: These notes are not a guarantee of any particular version number or release date. It just represents some of our development goals. In particular any of these numbered releases may be broken up or shifted if we make an extra release.
Primary Goals
- Add some small new features.
- Clear our Low/Medium security backlog.
- Wrap up various on-going technical projects.
Vanilla 3.2
- New Content Embed System & Documentation. See OSS preview + announcement thread.
- User homepage selector plugin.
- Enhanced automated testing on pull requests with CircleCI.
- Various Rich Editor & Forum bug fixes.
- Low/Medium severity security fixes from the backlog.
ETA End of July
Vanilla 3.3
This one likely won't be clarified until after a few more product team meetings.
Rich Editor
- Alt-text for images.
- Better handling of embeds on mobile devices.
Routing
The team has been doing a lot of work over the last few months on a new base controller, and static routing system. A lot of the interface and classes used here are already development but may change between now and the release where they are publicly documented.
Builtin Docker Images
Vanilla currently has a project, vanilla-docker that is used for all of our team's development environment. These images are planned to be moved into the core repo, and have all dependencies placed inside. This will also include a production configured image & setup script for hosts that support Docker (looking at an installer for digital ocean).
Using this system the only dependency will Docker. All other tooling (php, composer, node, yarn, etc) will run inside of the containers.
Formatting Pipeline
Work has begun on a major refactoring of the text rendering pipeline. The goals being:
- Consistent interface for different formatters.
- Unified configuration options between Rich Editor & other formats.
- Configuration options for embeds.
- Break up
Gdn_Format - Increased automated test coverage.
JS module system
We've begun breaking up our core typescript codebase into individual packages and publishing them to NPM. These will be published under the org. The intention is to consolidate various packages & build processes floating around.
ETA End of August
Re: A little re-arrangement
Just a followup you guys
I made the plugin! It won't be up on this forum until our next cloud release though. Probably in a couple of weeks.
User Home Page Selector Plugin
After some discussion it was clear to me that homepage preferences definitely vary by user, so I made a plugin to allow the homepage to be user configurable!
The Plugin
Go grab it on the addon directory! It's been tested with PHP 7.1 + & Vanilla 3.1 (it likely works with 3.0 as well though).
Screenshot
Source Code
Get it over on the addon directory. The source should be up on the vanilla/addons repo in a few days once it passes code review. In the meantime if anyone wants to view the source it's up on a branch.
Unfortunately it ended up being a bit more code than I initially thought. Forms are a PITA!
New Embed System (Preview & Information)
One of my favourite parts of the Vanilla is the ability to embed external content. Unfortunately until now, it has been very difficult to create custom embeds with any amount of complexity.
In the last few weeks the team has been working on finalizing our new pluggable embed system. I held it back from the 3.1 release due to a need for additional testing, but it is available for testing on the master branch of Vanilla.
Our initial documentation is written, but it will be fleshed out significantly in time for the next release. In case anyone wants to start playing with it, here it is.
Docs
PHP CodeBase & Builtin Embeds
Frontend CodeBase & Builtin Embeds
Re: Why are my search results replaced with “There was an error rendering this rich post”?
Thanks @charrondev and all Vanilla team for your business!
I confirm for 3.1 installation there is no that problem any more.
😍
mirX
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Re: Forum too quiet these days
I'm not 100% sure myself. We've definitely had some releases that got delayed too much and that certainly doesn't help the community. It's interesting though because development of Vanilla has never been more active.
We've almost tripled the size of our developer team in the past year, and gotten a lot more productive on top of that.
I will note though, that just because the community itself has less comments doesn't mean Vanilla is less used. Thousands of previous threads and Github issues, as well as much better documentation mean it can be far easier to get assistance with a lot of issues with a quick google search. The most popular categories here are the help categories by far so that's part of it too.