Should there be a "Pages" widget too?
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Should there be a "Pages" widget too?
In working on the drop-down selector to Register different account types I got sidetracked making a "Pages Widget" like the existing "Groups Widget."
One nice thing about the "Groups Widget" is that little [+] that takes you to the Register form to create your own Group. But there isn't anything like that for creating a PAGE. So that was my primary reason for creating the new widget. But it's also nice to have a list of Pages you're following right there in the sidebar. It shows both "Organization" and "News" page account types.
And I made the Pages Widget sortable like everything else in that sidebar. Because this isn't a mock-up, it's functional on my Dev Server. I've only tested it in Frio/Bookface. I still need to check it in Vier.
Hopefully there wasn't some fringe technical reason a Pages Widget didn't already exist.
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Should there be a "Pages" widget too?
In working on the drop-down selector to Register different account types I got sidetracked making a "Pages Widget" like the existing "Groups Widget."
One nice thing about the "Groups Widget" is that little [+] that takes you to the Register form to create your own Group. But there isn't anything like that for creating a PAGE. So that was my primary reason for creating the new widget. But it's also nice to have a list of Pages you're following right there in the sidebar. It shows both "Organization" and "News" page account types.
And I made the Pages Widget sortable like everything else in that sidebar. Because this isn't a mock-up, it's functional on my Dev Server. I've only tested it in Frio/Bookface. I still need to check it in Vier.
Hopefully there wasn't some fringe technical reason a Pages Widget didn't already exist.
#Friendica #dev #widget @developers
I've been working on making it look right in Vier and got sidetracked by the fact the "Groups" widget does not appear in Vier's left-hand sidebar, only in the right-hand "discovery" sidebar. I'll be changing that. For consistency and to make sure the expand/collapse works right it needs to only appear in the left-hand sidebar where uses can actually control its position or whether it appears at all. There was also some stylesheet strangeness hiding some widget elements for no apparent reason.
I'm not planning to make this work in Duopuntozero, Quattro, or Smoothly as it is my understanding those themes are deprecated and it looks like nothing really works in them anymore under Friendica 2026.01.
