discourse-tc-bars 🍻 🍸

A Theme Component that allows you to lay out Components¹ on top and side bars.

• Specify a set of "widgets" distinctly for Route and Position.
• Supports setups for each of: discovery², topic, tag³, category³, categories³ OR tags-intersection⁴
• "Bars" can be either: top, left, right OR alternative right location.
• Each bar can be collapsed or dismissed (refresh browser to reset dismiss). They can be minimised by default.
• Handles the Official Sidebar, but if you intend you use a Bars Left Sidebar, the Dropdown mode of the official Sidebar is recommended.
• It comes with existing example settings that show some big letters, partly as a demo and partly so you can see example settings. Delete these and replace with your own Component names.
• Ships with one Component: bars-custom-html (see pre-filled example settings) - but components from many existing Theme Components & Plugins are compatible.
• Mobile support is not yet implemented.

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Footnotes

1. This TC supports Glimmer Components which must be "self-contained" ie fetch their own data (so they remain fully modular and can be used on any route) ↩

2. the term 'discovery' (route) refers to the main Topic List pages (e.g. "Latest", "New") that allow you to browse available Topics before clicking and diving into a specific one. ↩

3. technically also a "discovery" route but we're breaking these out to distinct names so you can treat them differently if you so choose. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. See the Tags Intersection Plugin ↩