tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed ("Back to Discussion" and "Top of the Page" links on Meta)

WillieWong comments on ""Back to Discussion" and "Top of the Page" links on Meta" (12880)

2011-01-28T07:44:31-08:00

@Scott and Andrew:

Confirmed. Much appreciated.

Anton Geraschenko comments on ""Back to Discussion" and "Top of the Page" links on Meta" (12867)

2011-01-27T22:36:30-08:00

Confirmed.

Scott Morrison comments on ""Back to Discussion" and "Top of the Page" links on Meta" (12865)

2011-01-27T21:32:36-08:00

Okay! Thanks Andrew for the pointers, I've implemented this and everyone should see it live. Can someone confirm?

Andrew Stacey comments on ""Back to Discussion" and "Top of the Page" links on Meta" (12860)

2011-01-27T13:19:39-08:00

She picked out two somebodies
Sally and me.

The links are in the file VanillaRoot/themes/comments_foot.php which is included after the form. To get them to appear on every page you need to move them from that file to the file VanillaRoot/themes/foot.php.

Actually, what you really ought to do is make a directory under the directory themes where you can keep your changes to the theme. Any file in the themes directory that you wish to change, you first copy to the new directory and change them there. In particular, this means that you have the original still at your disposal and if you update the software and that file gets rewritten, your changes don't get clobbered.

If you do that, you also have to make sure that the forum is using your new theme. It's somewhere obvious in the settings but I don't remember where right now.

WillieWong comments on ""Back to Discussion" and "Top of the Page" links on Meta" (12858)

2011-01-27T11:57:54-08:00

The code seems to be from http://vanillaforums.org/

I get that link from clicking on the phrase "Vanilla 1.1.9" to the upper-left of this comment.

Scott Morrison comments on ""Back to Discussion" and "Top of the Page" links on Meta" (12857)

2011-01-27T11:37:50-08:00

I'm happy to modify the meta software if someone provides the code and tells me where to copy and paste it!

WillieWong comments on ""Back to Discussion" and "Top of the Page" links on Meta" (12854)

2011-01-27T10:18:58-08:00

This is a (minor) feature request for Meta.MO.

For open discussions, at the bottom of the page showing the thread there is a text box for adding new comments and two links: one to go "Back to Discussions" and one to go to the "Top of the Page".

For closed discussions, obviously there shouldn't be a text box for adding new comments. But can we still have those two rather convenient links?