Recent Cards plugin customization

[crazycells]

Although it is not used in this forum, I have a question about this plugin:

https://github.com/NodeBB-Community/nodebb-plugin-recent-cards

It basically creates a set of cards for each recent post.

I wonder if there is an easy way to create a several px width border in each box(card) representing its own category color. Previously plugin was showing category-specific color as the background color; however, this is removed in the latest versions. I have got some tips from baris here: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/16249/recent-cards-does-not-slide-by-finger/8

and I made some changes in the forked version here: https://github.com/YesilkartForum/nodebb-plugin-recent-cards-yesilkartforum/commit/844ab9ef890e5cb3e4d0a71e1a5f9b627c257ce8

however, unfortunately, it did not work. Any help or tip is appreciated.

[phenomlab]

@crazycells I have this running on https://hostrisk.com which is my cyber security (automated) news site. Are you looking for something like this ?

Here’s a jQuery function that will do this on the fly

$(document).ready(function() {
    $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) {
        $('.recent-card-container').each(function(i) {
            var dataId = $(this).attr("data-cid");
            var color = $('[role="presentation"]', this).css("background-color");
            console.log("data-cid " + dataId + " is " + color);
            $('[data-cid="' + dataId + '"] .recent-card').attr("style", "border-color: " + color);
        });
    });
});

Paste this into your ACP -> Appearance -> Custom JS, save, and test

[phenomlab]

@crazycells If I understand this correctly, you want a (for example, 5px) border around each card that is taken from the relevant category’s colour ?

[crazycells]

@phenomlab said in Recent Cards plugin customization:

@crazycells If I understand this correctly, you want a (for example, 5px) border around each card that is taken from the relevant category’s colour ?

yes, actually even 1 px is doing the job. I made a change in inspector CSS codes to show the final result I aim…

[phenomlab]

@crazycells I have this running on https://hostrisk.com which is my cyber security (automated) news site. Are you looking for something like this ?

Here’s a jQuery function that will do this on the fly

$(document).ready(function() {
    $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) {
        $('.recent-card-container').each(function(i) {
            var dataId = $(this).attr("data-cid");
            var color = $('[role="presentation"]', this).css("background-color");
            console.log("data-cid " + dataId + " is " + color);
            $('[data-cid="' + dataId + '"] .recent-card').attr("style", "border-color: " + color);
        });
    });
});

Paste this into your ACP -> Appearance -> Custom JS, save, and test

[crazycells]

up there I only changed this line:

border: 1px solid #e3e3e3;

[crazycells]

@phenomlab lol yes, that is exactly what I was looking for
it worked great!

thank you very much

[phenomlab]

@crazycells Happy to help. That function wasn’t always there - I just finished writing it

[crazycells]

@phenomlab said in Recent Cards plugin customization:

@crazycells Happy to help. That function wasn’t always there - I just finished writing it

Thanks a lot

[phenomlab]

@crazycells No problems. Feel free to comment out line

console.log("data-cid " + dataId + " is " + color);

From that function as it’s only used to ensure the script is picking up the relevant background-color from the category.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab I think in dark mode, it is going back to normal. Is there an easy way to keep the same border color in dark mode as well?

[phenomlab]

@crazycells Dark mode shouldn’t have any impact - can you provide a URL where I can see this ?

[phenomlab]

@phenomlab Yes, I see the issue. It’s because of lazy CSS classes meaning this below will override everything else when body.lights-out is appended to the existing CSS class.

body.lights-out .recent-cards .recent-card-container .recent-card {
    background-color: #2E2E2E;
    border: #848484;
}

You should be able to work around that by adding this into your custom CSS

body.lights-out .recent-cards .recent-card-container .recent-card {
    border: 1px solid #848484;
}

Let me know how you get on.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab Yes, I found the lines and fixed them

Thank you very much. Since the recent card plugin-related codes are not included in the night mode plugin; we have previously added some custom codes for recent cards… Apparently, those codes were creating the problem. Now, it is fixed

[crazycells]

hi @phenomlab , somehow recent cards are not clickable in my forum after using these codes, however, it works fine here…

Normally, when I click a card it takes me to that topic, however, nothing happens now.

I use this CSS:

 
li.col-md-3.col-sm-6.col-xs-12.recent-card-container {
    width: 290px !important;
}

this JS code:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) {
        $('.recent-card-container').each(function(i) {
            var dataId = $(this).attr("data-cid");
            var color = $('[role="presentation"]', this).css("background-color");
            console.log("data-cid " + dataId + " is " + color);
            $('[data-cid="' + dataId + '"] .recent-card').attr("style", "border-color: " + color);
        });
    });
});
 
$(document).ready(function() {
    $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) {
   var categoryColor = $('[role="presentation"].icon').css("background-color");
                $('li.topic-owner-post:nth-child(1)').css('border-color', categoryColor);
    });
});
 
 
window.addEventListener("load", () => {
    // CHROME
    if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Chrome") != -1) {
        console.log("Google Chrome");
        $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) {
            $('.carousel-mode').bxSlider({
                auto: false,
                autoControls: true,
                stopAutoOnClick: true,
                pager: false,
                keyboardEnabled: true,
                touchEnabled: false
            });
        });
    } else {
        console.log("Others");
        $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) {
            $('.carousel-mode').bxSlider({
                auto: false,
                autoControls: true,
                stopAutoOnClick: true,
                pager: false,
                keyboardEnabled: true,
                touchEnabled: true
            });
        });
    }
});

and this header:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha512-894YE6QWD5I59HgZOGReFYm4dnWc1Qt5NtvYSaNcOP+u1T9qYdvdihz0PPSiiqn/+/3e7Jo4EaG7TubfWGUrMQ==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/bxslider/4.2.12/jquery.bxslider.min.js"></script>

[phenomlab]

@crazycells Strange. Are there any errors appearing in the console at your end ? When I look at the console itself, I see

However, this doesn’t seem to have any impact on the recent cards - the links appear to work fine. I think this may be a caching issue at your end ?

[crazycells]

@phenomlab hmm, I tried on different browsers with iPhone.

First of all, when I delete this code:

 
window.addEventListener("load", () => {
    // CHROME
    if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Chrome") != -1) {
        console.log("Google Chrome");
        $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) {
            $('.carousel-mode').bxSlider({
                auto: false,
                autoControls: true,
                stopAutoOnClick: true,
                pager: false,
                keyboardEnabled: true,
                touchEnabled: false
            });
        });
    } else {
        console.log("Others");
        $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) {
            $('.carousel-mode').bxSlider({
                auto: false,
                autoControls: true,
                stopAutoOnClick: true,
                pager: false,
                keyboardEnabled: true,
                touchEnabled: true
            });
        });
    }
});

then, everything is normal, cards are clickable but of course, sliding does not work.

However, when I activate it, I could not click the cards on Safari, but it was working on Firefox. I can slide the cards on both browsers by the way.

So, I guess like Google Chrome, Safari has its own problems with this sliding application?

[crazycells]

I forgot to write… I do not see any errors on the console.

[phenomlab]

@crazycells odd. Should actually work on Safari. Can you change the line under “Others” to be touchEnabled: false and see if that allows you to select the href links ?

Obviously, save the code and reload the site before testing again.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab said in Recent Cards plugin customization:

@crazycells odd. Should actually work on Safari. Can you change the line under “Others” to be touchEnabled: false and see if that allows you to select the href links ?

Obviously, save the code and reload the site before testing again.

with this change, in both Safari and Firefox browsers, I can click the cards and go to the topics, however sliding does not work.

[phenomlab]

@crazycells yes, unsurprising as they both use the webkit CSS rendering engine. This will be the same bug I reference earlier that affects Google Chrome. Not much that can be done sadly.