WP resource: Some style for WordPress support
- download:
- userContent-wp.css
- source:
- userContent-wp.css
WordPress support forums. As is.
Above you find the WordPress support forums circa today (click images for full screenshots). One bugaboo for some of us about the main page is the plain, straightfoward, single column layout. Not a lot of organization of the relevant bits.
WordPress support forums. More of the same.
To get to the meat of the forums you have to scroll down a bit. Unless you have a big-ass monitor and open everything full screen (Yes on 1 for me, No on 2). As for that splash of pink (or whatever) used to highlight “sticky” posts at the top and within each forum: Pretty…
WordPress support forums, Kaf style.
Now there you go! That’s how I visit the WordPress support forums every day. The profile/logout is available but out of the way (matches placement of the account links in WordPress’ admin pages), Views or those tag-related helper links are still obvious but not taking up expensive page real estate, and Hot Tags, though slightly demoted, are still above the fold and in easy reach. Some may not find the switch to purple fo the stickies any more pleasant, but I think it fits in better with the existing color scheme.
So, how do? Anyone can get this version of WordPress’ support forums just by using Firefox, the URL id Firefox extension, and some custom css to modify the behavior of the forums. The URL id extension lets you apply stylesheet rules to the body element of any site. It does this by turning the domain (wordpress.org) into a css reference id (#wordpress-org), which then through Firefox’s user stylesheet (userContent.css) can be given any style property you’d like. You can’t add new id and class declarations, but just about anything already on a page is fair game.
Pretty damn cool, huh? The entire web as your plaything. Here’s the userContent.css I’m using for WordPress:
display userContent-wp.css | download userContent-wp.css
Just grab this, rename it userContent.css, and drop it in the chrome directory for your Firefox profile. If you already have a userContent.css, just copy what’s in mine into yours. Instructions for placing userContent.css can be found here.
Have fun with it, and let me know if you come up with even better versions of the support forums. Hey, we’ll start a screenshot gallery!
Author: Kaf Oseo
Categories: WordPress
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Hey, that’s rather nifty. Out of curiosity, do you know if there’s a 1.5 version of that plugin you’re using — or is it best just to hack the version info in it?
I have Firefox 1.5.0.1 installed, so the extension’s gotta be working with it. Unless I really am just that good.
Eh, not likely.
I had to up the version number inside install.rdf - but this is awesome !
Or you have that developer/testers extension thingy that automagically gets around versions. :-) I hacked it and got it running. Very sweet work you did on the style. I like it!
Cap’n Solo sir, could you email me the one you hacked? I have no clue how to do that…. vkaryl *at* bytehaven *dot* com….
I would appreciate it! What dev thingy that automagically gets around versions? I couldn’t find anything like that….
s’okay, Podz already did it!
Kaf, excellent idea!
I use the 1.5.0.2 too, but the plugin refuses to install, telling me it cant be installed in this version.
Podz, what install.rdf, please? I found a few in my firefox profile.
Well, I got lucky then I guess. But Podz was good enough to swack the version ref in the extension’s installer. For those having issues with the one on the Firefox extension site, go here for Podz’s fix.
I like ‘um some workin’ together!
We all do, too bad it’s not pandemic.