Discussion Banners: info banners for your discussions

Updates

Discussion Banners adds configurable info banners to your discussion pages. Use them for announcements, rules reminders, sign-up nudges, or sponsor messages.

What it does

Three placements, each independently configurable: above the first post, below the last post, and between posts (after every Nth post, like the sponsored slots on this forum).
Each banner has HTML content (sanitized before display) and an optional small uppercase heading such as "Info" or "From our sponsor".
Optional icon beside the text: upload a small image or pick an emoji.
Optional accent color, entered with the same color control as tag colors. The border, background tint and heading follow it while body text stays on your theme's colors, so banners are readable in light and dark modes.
Per-banner visibility: everyone, guests only, or logged-in users only. Enforced on the server, so content meant for one audience is never delivered to another.

Compatibility

One release supports both Flarum 1.8 and Flarum 2.x, with the same features on each.

Install

composer require linkrobins/discussion-banners

Then enable it in the admin panel and configure your banners on its settings page.

Links

Release notes will be posted in this discussion as new versions ship.

Updates

Discussion Banners v1.0.0 is out. Full notes: https://github.com/linkrobins/flarum-discussion-banners/releases/tag/v1.0.0

This is the first release, with everything described in the post above: banners above, below, and between the posts of a discussion, each with its own heading, HTML content, icon (uploaded image or emoji), accent color, and audience setting, on both Flarum 1.8 and 2.x.

Install with composer require linkrobins/discussion-banners.

Updates

v1.1.0

Banners can now be pointed at particular discussions instead of showing up in every one, and you can have as many banners as you like.

Banners are a list now. Add as many as you want on the settings page. Each banner has its own placement (above the discussion, below it, or repeated between posts), heading, content, accent color, icon and audience, so two discussions can carry completely different notices.

Each banner picks where it appears:

All discussions, the same as before
Only the discussions you choose, found by searching for them by title (pasting a discussion link or ID works too)
Only the discussions in the tags you choose
All discussions except the ones you choose

Your current banners are kept. The three you already have are converted into the new list when you run php flarum migrate, each set to appear in all discussions, so nothing on your forum changes until you decide to target one.

A banner meant for one discussion is never sent to somebody reading another, and discussion lists no longer carry any banner data at all.

Two smaller things: the settings page no longer jumps wider when you open a banner, and icons you uploaded but no longer use are cleaned up when you save.

Still one release for both Flarum 1.8 and 2.x.

To update:

composer update linkrobins/discussion-banners
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Full notes: https://github.com/linkrobins/flarum-discussion-banners/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Updates

v1.1.1 is out. A tiny cosmetic update: the extension now has its own icon in the admin panel, a hanging sign, instead of sharing the bullhorn icon with Shoutbox. Nothing about how banners work has changed, so there is no rush to update.

Release notes: https://github.com/linkrobins/flarum-discussion-banners/releases/tag/v1.1.1

maximdobizha

Hi! Thank you so much for such a useful add-on! There are a couple of problems.
When using this add-on, the ad units placed on the forum (created using the Ads Manager add-on) are cut off both in width and in height. Is this a conflict of extensions? Is it possible to solve this problem? In the attached image, you can see how the ad units are currently placed. The red area is the area they should occupy.

Karl

maximdobizha I don't use that extension at all, but I will look into it!

Karl

maximdobizha I'm still looking into this. Give me by the end of the week. Rest assured that I haven't forgot, just had to push out some releases I have already completed.