Editing the Voting Plugin.
I'm trying to modify the Voting plugin. Yes... I know it's been brought up a number of times here. I've read through the questions and had trouble downloading or extracting the modified files that have been provided by users here. I'd also rather just edit my already-installed plugins as I've modified the CSS slightly to get it to look the way I want it to.
Can anyone please tell me which files to edit in the plugin, and what exactly to take out in order to get rid of "follows" and "votes" and just leave "views" and "comments"? I'm sure this would be helpful to many other people who download the plugin.
Thank you so much.
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hbf
MVP
BTW - i just tested display: none on the
.DataList .Bookmark, .DataList a.Bookmark, .DataList a.Bookmarked, .DataList a.Bookmarking
tag for this site. works like a charm.
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Is it class.voting.php ? Not sure off top of my head
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Let me try that.. thanks
thanks, you're right. i think that's where i'm supposed to edit. i'd tried it before. tried again, but nothing is working.. just getting a bunch of parse and fatal errors
i'm not a developer so it's pretty much trial and error (lol, i love that accidental pun) and i'm just thinking there must be something i'm missing, it can't be this hard?
not wanting to do any actual coding for you here (sorry)
the god awful easiest way to hide that stuff would be to use css and just hide the elements you don't want shown.
take a look a my shortpanel plugin. you can use that with only a tweak to the regex statement in the php and simply changing the element names in the css file.
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Hehe. It's ok.
I tried editing the css and nothing changed. Maybe I need to sleep on it. I'm pretty sure there's an easy way to do this that I'm missing. Let me get your plugin
BTW - i just tested display: none on the
.DataList .Bookmark, .DataList a.Bookmark, .DataList a.Bookmarked, .DataList a.Bookmarking
tag for this site. works like a charm.
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what cssfile did you edit and what element and tag did you edit? it works, you just need to make sure it gets picked up. you can always tag it important to force its expression.
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Oh goodness! I found it I found it I found iiiiit...
So for anyone who's clueless about code wants to do this, just go to the CSS and insert a "display: none;" for whatever you need to hide (which in my case was Statbox and VotesBox.
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Thanks, guys..
I tried it on voting.css.
now you may sleep in peace.
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I'm going to try doing your version; what I did just took it out of the main/home page which is fine. I still have the vote thingie within the discussions themselves, not a big deal but I'll try and take them out. Thanks again.
should be the same principle. google chrome, inspect element will be your friend.
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Ok. Worked out. Yes, it's the same principle. "Display: none" is my friend. I changed
"span.Votes a,
span.Votes span "
from "display: block;" to "display: none;".
I really hope this helps someone out, I was so frustrated.
BTW - removing stuff like this through css is slick because it keeps the presentation independent of the code. so if someone updates the plugin you don't have to figure out how to hack it again.
on the other hand, it's a little more bloated, because you are sending over the info you don't want to be displayed... but it's really not that much data so who cares.
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Lol. I totally intend to. Thanks again.
Maybe i should post a discussion called "How to hide stuff you don't want your users to see"
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NP. I figured you had suffered enough
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