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    Dash  ·  
    Feb 12, 2020
    Edited: Feb 12, 2020

    A few tweaks you can add to your forum.

    in Forum Discussions

    If you ask me, the post created by @winteriscoming appears to be starting a bit of a customization revolution.


    With Tracking & Analytics (premium sites only) you can customize your forum even more.

    Make sure that all custom embeds are set to the below:














    To remove the sidebar and widen the post area:

    <style>
    .qwUf2
    {
    display: none;
    }
    .app-desktop .FLyif
    {
    max-width: 100%;
    }
    ._1wZij
    {
    max-width: 100%;
    }
    .app-desktop ._1NkaF
    {
    max-width: 100%;
    }
    </style>

    To move the like button to the right:

    <style>
    ._3jepg
    {
    padding-left: 700px;
    display: content;
    }
    .GcHCJ
    {
    padding-left: 700px;
    display: content;
    }
    </style>

    To remove the blue outline when creating/editing a post or comment:

    <style>
    ._1Fqrx :focus
    {
    outline: 0px !important;
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    box-shadow: none !important;
    }
    </style>

    To change the selected text colour:

    <style>
    ::selection
    {
    background: #003cff;
    color: #ffffff;
    }
    </style>

    To change your cursor:

    <style>
    body {
      cursor: crosshair;/* or whatever other icon you want. */
    }
    </style>

    To change the scrollbar:

     <style>
     ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb
      {
        background: #003cff;
        border-radius: 50px;
      }
      ::-webkit-scrollbar
      {
        background: #003869;
      }
      ::-webkit-scrollbar-track
      {
        background: #003869;
      }
      </style>

    Feel free to add tweaks below. A few of these that I've added were inspired by @winteriscoming.


    @Robin Griggs Wood

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    R Griggs Wood
    Feb 21, 2020

    Thanks for looking into the idea of creating a zoom feature for the image viewer, @Vytenis Butkevičius. Much appreciated.


    @venko gligorov is right, Vytenis, your suggestion for a workaround is totally unprofessional ... 1) for sites where your Wix Forum paid customers are charging their users for content/service 2) for sites where the forum is an added feature to their service, it is not OK to ask your user’s to go through so much complexity to view an image properly.


    I'll look if we can make the image expand feature also give ability to zoom in.
    Meanwhile you can right click on an image and click "open image in new tab", then change address bar like this https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_94575dc60fd340d1890701cd6f1791d9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_680,h_678,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/a27d24_94575dc60fd340d1890701cd6f1791d9~mv2.webp -> https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_94575dc60fd340d1890701cd6f1791d9~mv2.jpg
    this will give you full size image.
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    R Griggs Wood
    Feb 20, 2020

    @Vytenis Butkevičius — just to give you fuller info about: your comment

    We added a feature where you can click on image to see it full size

    This is what “full size” looks like in the practical usage of the Image Viewer. It’s not ready for a professional forum at all yet. “Full size” is smaller in the Wix Forum image viewer without a zoom option. This is the make or break point in a photography teaching website.




    Without the redundant sidebar the forum dev team added, images were of sufficient size within the forum post itself, without having to click on anything, I might add. With the recently added redundant sidebar, we can no longer give proper feedback to our students. The Wix forum dev team has destroyed my business.


    PLEASE, give us the option to turn the forum sidebar off.

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    Vytenis Butkevičius
    Feb 21, 2020
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    Replying to

    I'll look if we can make the image expand feature also give ability to zoom in.



    Meanwhile you can right click on an image and click "open image in new tab", then change address bar like this https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_94575dc60fd340d1890701cd6f1791d9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_680,h_678,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/a27d24_94575dc60fd340d1890701cd6f1791d9~mv2.webp -> https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_94575dc60fd340d1890701cd6f1791d9~mv2.jpg


    this will give you full size image.

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    venko gligorov
    Feb 21, 2020
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    @Vytenis Butkevičius I wanted to propose the same thing about Zoom In - to open in new Tab is not acceptable and not practical. How to inform anybody to make this operation while begging them for visiting our site. We need to make their life easier.


    In my case, when you click on the image, the image is shown with same size - so no point of clicking extra to get same result. Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons are needed as well as full screen button. Thanks.

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    Vytenis Butkevičius
    Feb 19, 2020
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    Guys, you shouldn't try to change forum styling with custom css. This is not officially supported and our css class names are auto generated and can change at any time. Any custom change can and most likely will result in unexpected results.

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    R Griggs Wood
    Feb 19, 2020
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    @Vytenis Butkevičius — The sidebar has ruined my forum. We are a photography group and image size is paramount. Give us the option to turn off the sidebar, please.


    My customers are leaving because of this arbitrary change and bad design (you’ve already limited the size of Wix pages because you don’t know yet how to make them dynamic, and the sidebar that you've added to the post area makes the posts too small). Please, I’m begging, give us the option to turn it off. .. or my business is ruined. I want what I had when I signed on to Wix in the first place.

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    Vytenis Butkevičius
    Feb 20, 2020
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    @Robin Griggs Wood sorry to hear that changes cause issues for you. We added a feature where you can click on image to see it full size, so maybe that can help.


    Also it might seems like post is smaller now because there is sidebar but, but in reality it's wider than before - that means more content fits horizontally. Before we had large spacings from the side, now everything is more compact. The only thing that got smaller is the largest option of image (which unfortunately affects you the most).

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    R Griggs Wood
    Feb 20, 2020
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    @Vytenis Butkevičius re:

    We added a feature where you can click on image to see it full size

    Do you mean the “image viewer”? You do realize that the images are half the time smaller in that image viewer than they are in the post thread, right? I mean, have you actually used the image viewer yourself? You probably have, but I don’t understand why everyone keeps telling me that images go larger in that viewer — if you have a Vertical orientated image, they are smaller in that image viewer, and you haven’t added any zoom feature. So, the “image viewer” solution isn’t a solution at all.


    PLEASE, simply give us the option to turn that sidebar off. It feels like “forum from 10 years ago” design. It is a step backward, not forward for Wix.


    Alternately, move into the present and make Wix sites dynamically resizable like just about every modern site available today.