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A few questions regarding custom themeing and custom pages*

lowielowie New
edited November 2013 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Hi guys,

I'm new to vanilla forums (but a php dev for quite a while) and I'm creating a custom theme for a client of mine (I'm using 2.0.18.4). I have a few questions, and I apologise in advance if they are answered elsewhere in the forum. I'm not 100% sure what to ask or whether what I'm finding is the best answers.

  1. I want users to be able to upload a profile picture/avatar during the signup process. The default registration doesn't have a field to upload an image (unless I'm missing something). Is this a config option or do I need to install a plugin to enable this? If it's a plugin, which plugin is best?

  2. I want to implement a custom homepage (not the discussions page). The html for the page I'll be implementing is up at http://uicoding.com/staging/arthritis-forum/index.html. First thing, how do I create a new page? Ideally the manual method for this would be appreciated. I'm assuming create a route, create a controller and then create the views... but if there's a quicker way I'd love to hear it. I've seen that there are a couple of plugins that can create pages but I wasn't sure if they'd give me the flexibility to completely customise what appears on the page.

  3. This question is something I'm sure I can search for so it's only out of interest. On the homepage I have top picks, latest, hot topics, most viewed etc. Would you use plugins for these and then customise how they look, or would you recommend that I build the logic for them myself (assuming I have my own controller for the hompage)?

Any help would be much appreciated and would kickstart me in the right direction :).

Cheers,
Chris

Comments

  • UnderDogUnderDog MVP

    @lowie said:
    I'm creating a custom theme for a client of mine (I'm using 2.0.18.4).

    When you have everything up and running, please update to 2.0.18.8

    It's only files that changed between those versions, not database changes (luckily)

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  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP

    Welcome to the community!

    1. I can't think of a way to do this without overriding the registration views and hooking in with a plugin. None exist currently that do this IIRC.

    2. I highly suggest you use the custom pages plugin. It is highly customizable and essentially lets you run arbitrary php code within the framework.

    3. Go with a plugin. Plugins in garden are first class citizens and don't have much overhead. You will want to create modules that hook into Vanilla.

    Good luck! Use the addons repository for a source of examples.

    P.S I wrote a plugin called Latest Post List t that lists discussions sorted by date in the side panel. /shameless plug

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  • lowielowie New

    Hi @hgtonight... thanks for the response. I'll get the custom pages plugin and see how I go. I'm sure I'll be able to put your plugin to good use ;)

    @UnderDog Thanks mate... is it mostly bug fixes or feature additions?

  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP

    The patch is only bugfixes, IIRC. You need to update for security reasons.

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  • lowielowie New

    ok... good to know. I'll update once I have it running.

  • x00x00 MVP

    you actually should update to 2.0.18.9 now.

    grep is your friend.

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