Moving from SMF to Vanilla; need a bit of help with a couple of things!
Flenix
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Hey guys!
I've just moved to Vanilla from SMF, after my SMF forum broke one too many times. I've decided to cut my losses, set the SMF to read-only, and start anew with Vanilla (Not bothering with DB porting or any of that rubbish.)
Now, I was hoping someone could help me get settled in?
My first question; is it possible to add a "Read/Unread" icon to Categories? In SMF, we had things like this:
http://ctrlv.photos/img/14/03/26/533314ca5fa64.png
and I'd love to get the same functionality over here if possible!
I'd also like to have a small bit of whitespace between root categories. Currently, it displays like this:
- Root
- Sub category 1
- Sub category 2
- Root 2
- Sub 3
- etc...
I'd just like a bit of space between "Root" and "Root 2", if that makes sense. Simply a visual optimisation; I'd assume this might be theme-based, but maybe I missed a setting somewhere.
Secondly, I've browsed through all the plugins and applications briefly but nothing jumped out at me. Is there any sort of plugin which adds a social media feel to a users profile? IE, they can post status updates and add friends and so on - almost like a Facebook kind of thing, but contained within the forum.
Third; I can't help but notice the very nice looking info panel in the top-left here, right under the Vanilla Cloud ad - displaying Name, notifications, inbox, bookmarks and settings. How would I add this (or something vaguely similar) to my forum?
Finally, are there any good theming/plugin tutorials around? I'm quite well versed in Java/JavaScript but I know next to nothing about PHP, so I'm interested in making the jump and learning something new.
Any help with these is great. I think I'm going to enjoy it here, it does look like a very good bit of software.
(I should mention on closing, I'm using a self-hosted setup running 2.0.18.10. I see a lot of mentions of 2.1, but this is what I got when I hit download yesterday; if there is an upgrade available, what's the best way to install it?)
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Welcome to the community!
All of your issues can be solved by modifying the CSS of your theme. The official documentation is a great place to start: http://vanillaforums.org/docs. I highly suggest checking out the community wiki: http://vanillawiki.homebrewforums.net/index.php/Main_Page There are many tutorials there. You can also check out the tutorials category here: http://vanillaforums.org/categories/tutorials for more general information about Vanilla.
2.0.18.10 is the right version to be running in production, 2.1 is for developing and testing.
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Does this include the snazzy notification thing? (I added that via edit afterwards when I noticed it, so if you were typing when I did that maybe you missed it? Seems more like a plugin kind of thing)
Ah... must have cross-posted. That is called the MeBox. It is a new module that was introduced in the 2.1 development branch. IIRC, I was able to port it back to 2.0 with very few problems: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25558/sprite-function-in-vanilla-2-0-18-8
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