CSCN Anniversary Theme β23 update for XenForo 2.2.5:
To mention: I have no budgets to buy XF Media Gallery (XFMG) and XF Resource Manager (XFRM), hence the lack of compatibility tests between this style and these two official XenForo addons. I know that some of my friends bought them, but I cannot abuse their copies to do this. I wish to do this on XF demo site, but its access speed from Mainland China is extremely exhausting... averagely over 20 seconds per each page load / ajax click event. If there's no access speed problem, I would like to see that XF official demo sites can have some demo contents for XFMG and XFRM.
- Changed the user banner margin methods in messages (postbits) to make sure they won't look too condensed.
- Removed the default circle-gradient html background to reduce browser rendering workloads. The new linear-gradient html background also makes the theme look more professional and static in appearance, calming the visitors down. // The previous CSCN theme for vBulletin 3.0.x was using grey HTML background color.
- Strengthened block border shadow and weakened page container border shadow to improve eye comfortability on low-cost desktop monitors and laptop displays.
- Partial compatibility tweaks with ThemeHouse Nodes plugin. Now ThemeHouse Nodes (if having background & background image set) won't be effective in CSCN theme (previously looks terrible before β23) since this release until you manually modify the LESS template related to this addon. Hire someone who is familiar with LESS coding to make it fit your taste.
- Footer branding view option is now available in the Footer Properties as a single checkbox. The year info in the branding automatically updates according to the current year info.
- Cellphones are allowed to see subnodes (right beneath node description). Note that CSCN theme is not going to be optimized for sub-node enumerations in dropdown menu style.
- Elements introduced by XFES Suggested Threads are correctly CSS-formatted now in both Suggested Threads table and the Thread Title Suggestions.
- Some minor tweaks towards PAGE_CONTAINER template to solve compatibility issues with my addon "[CSCN] Moving Staff Tools to Nav Group". The solution is to add
data-style="CSCN-Anniversary"
to those elements dealt by this addon. Now this addon won't hook to this style, hence no duplicated AdminCP entry icons.- Additional changes towards the default style settings: Avatar radius is now defined as 5% to cope with the aesthetics of this style. So is the default font from Inter to Tahoma. Reason: Tahoma is the default UI font used by vBulletin 3.x and it really looks good. (Let's forget about its super-wide variation "Verdana" as it has reduced readability and looks bad on macOS.)
- Add a new choice to allow users to decide whether they want to put Sidebar to the left side in pages which data-template begins with: forum_view, forum_list, page_view, thread_view, whats_new, report_, watched_threads_list. The related style options are in the "Page Setup" section.
- In the "Reactions" page of the account settings, the name of the first category has been fixed from white to black.
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1) Synchronizing changes made to the default templates between XF 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 update.
2) The login-to-reply button in the thread view now supports text-wrap (as what the default template behaves in current XF 2.2.4).
Users who previously using Beta 21 can simply merge the style after upgrading their XF from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4 without worrying anything exceptional.
Beta 21 brings compatibility improvements for XenForo 2.2.3. It also fixes a bug in recent XF2.2-oriented releases that search-forum nodes are not styled. Now they are styled as same as previous node types offered in XenForo 2.1 releases.
This update removes a modification introduced in early Beta builds (prior to the availability of this style in this XenForo official forum). I wrote that definition when I was trying to compensate with something in XF 2.1 default template, but it looks like a wrong approach.
By removing this modification (actually, I commented it out using "//"), it solves compatibility issues with certain aftermarket addons.
I simply commented out the 104th line of "cscn_theme_customize.less":
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Beta 19 is still for XenForo 2.2.2 but comes with 3 fixes.
1) User information in normal postbit, if having over 5 items to display, automatically starts a new column to the left to display the 6th-10th item. After that, another new column for 11th-15th item. The problem is that I forgot to leave a horizontal gap for these columns. Now I give a 12px horizontal gap between these columns by patching "cscn_theme_customize_postbit.less" template.
2) User information in an article postbit (the 1st floor of an article thread) was supposed to have a 10px padding to its left. However, for some reasons, current default template defines it to 20px (which is way too much). I patched the "cscn_theme_customize_postbit.less" to make sure it overrides the XenForo default parameter.
3) Threadlist in a wiget embedded in a page (which data-template is "page_view") failed to get rendered correctly due to not being whitelisted in template "cscn_theme_customize_threadbit.less". Now this fix makes things stylistically consistent in "page_view". Other addons may bring new data-templates for their own pages, and CSCN only renders its thread list view style to those whitelisted data-templates, requiring your own operations to whitelist those corresponded new data-templates in this style template.
I also need to point out that this style (at least since beta 16) does not utilize "extra.less" because I don't want to mess up with users' self-edits. Nevertheless, "extra.less" gets compiled in the final step, and all user edits towards that template are out of my responsibility perimeter.
Updated node_list_forum and PAGE_CONTAINER, synchronizing changes made by XF 2.2.2 comparing to XF 2.2.1 release.
1. Updated the bottom area of both Notification Menu and the Message Menu. You can now Mark your Notifications as "Read".
2. Fixed an issue preventing emotion-reaction popups from showing (when you hover your mouse onto the link at the bottom of a postbit).
3. Fully updated for XenForo 2.2.1 Stable Release.
I do apologize for failing to find my time completely rebuilding this style from scratch (with my promised new features like one-hue control, etc.).
Since I have no time completely rebuild this skin from scratch for XenForo 2.2.0, I simply did a direct-update from Beta 15.
This update only works for XenForo 2.2.0 Beta 2 and later, assuming that there is no template conflicts with later XenForo 2.2.x releases.
- Updated for XenForo 2.2.0 Beta 2;
- Fixed unwanted box-shadow duplications when the form submission bar is not floated;
- Removed those hard-coded borders of the new Froala v3 editor, using customized borders instead;
- Made sure previous style changes towards thread title in thread pages keep effective in question threads and article threads.
No delta update available. Please download the style and redo what you have customized by yourself.
1. Synced template changes brought by XenForo 2.1.10;
2. Introducing my solution to an officially-unsolved issue that horizontal scrollbar may appear in the preview pane of message editor (at least the message editor for quickly replying a thread). See:
Future fix - Post preview scrollbar
Probably the padding from the very long inline code. Chrome 62.0.3202.94 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Win10, 175% Windows Zoom-Thingy.xenforo.com
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