I'm pleased to announce the release of Flexibase 3.2.0 in both the plugins database and github
There are quite a few changes to flexibase - some obvious, some 'LESS' so.
The most obvious is probably the new Block Page - a step towards giving users the option to have a 'blockless' main course page. Blocks can now be placed on a 'modal' page - and in fact the default block region is now positioned there to encourage that. The previous wide range of block regions remain available as well, so the user has total control over the design of the page, from blockless to 'Lings Cars'
3 other significant features were worked on with Chris and can also be found in his Pioneer theme:
- Radial display of activity completion within the course, which was developed from something posted by Jerome Di Pietro here
- Radial display of course grade (which grew from the same base)
- Featured course slider - the slider itself came from eGuru, via Chris' work, but is now implemented in such a way that it can present a site wide admin determined set of courses, and/or a set of courses determined by comparing course tags with user interests to personalise the promoted set of courses, and/or the user 'my courses' list. This is available on both the front page and the user dashboard.
In the background, I've also made a start on refactoring the CSS as LESS and breaking that up into separate files for portability and maintenance.
Richard