Moodle Plugins directory: Boost Union: Comments

Monday, 7 July 2025, 5:09 AM - Przemek Kaszubski

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:09:27 GMT

by Przemek Kaszubski.

Hi, I'm playing with Moodle 4.5 and the latest version the Boost Union theme for this Moodle version (v4.5-r20 2024100738). I've a question and maybe a feature request / suggestion:

1/ Is there any way one can make the info banners (and/or advertising tiles) appear also in the Mobile app?

2/ Especially for the banners, but also perhaps for the advertising tiles and the slider - it would be nice to be able to restrict their appearance to logged-in users only. Is this possible, per chance?

Thanks !

Thursday, 19 June 2025, 9:50 PM - Derek Chaplin

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:50:29 GMT

by Derek Chaplin.

I just upgraded one of my sites to Moodle 5.0.1+ from 4.5 and therefore had Boost Union upgraded to v5.0-r4 2025041409. I have another site with the same versions of Moodle and Boost union that was also upgraded from Moodle 4.5.

I notice that on one site the content input boxes show the TinyMCE editor while on the other site it only allows plain test with no TinyMCE editor controls visible. Both sites have the TinyMCE as the primary text editor.

Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 8:49 PM - Jacqui Nicol

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:49:57 GMT

by Jacqui Nicol.

Hello there,

Thank you so much for developing Boost Union. It's great and has transformed our Moodle. I have a request. We could love to use right hand block drawer on visit to force open block after login. However don't use the site home page. Would it be possible to apply to the /my and dashboard page too?

Thanks for considering :D

Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 6:20 PM - Tristan Janagap

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:20:40 GMT

by Tristan Janagap.

Hello, I'm new to Moodle and I have a question. Every time I install this plugin, my website becomes inaccessible. Please help me fix it.

Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 10:38 PM - Alexander Bias

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:38:04 GMT

by Alexander Bias.

Hi Folkert,

I am sorry that your deployment chain is broken currently. But this required version was set to 2024100702 intentionally.
I would like to point you to https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues/822 for details. Please comment there if you want to discuss this further, but please let's avoid discussing it here in the comments section.

Cheers,
Alex

Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 6:23 PM - Folkert Herrenbrück

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:23:26 GMT

by Folkert Herrenbrück.

Hello!
I think there is a bug in the last versions probably in the file versions.php.
There, with
$plugin->requires = 2024100702;
at least a Moodle 4.5.2 is required.
However, if you make a query via the Moodle API, you will get this version (r9, r10) for all earlier versions of Moodle 4.5.
This means that the plugin cannot be installed if it is downloaded after an API query.
We provide Moodle as a base image in Kubernetes clusters and then download the plugins from a list via the API. However, this currently fails with theme_boost_union for instances that still have Moodle 4.5.1.
I have tested it with a very fresh Moodle 4.5.1. The pod will not be finished. If I choose Moodle 4.5.2, everything works perfectly.
Presumably the entry in versions.php simply has to be changed to
$plugin->requires = 2024100700;

Best regards
Folkert

Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 11:13 PM - Elaroussi Boufas

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:13:33 GMT

by Elaroussi Boufas.

Hello,

I’m using the Boost Union theme on Moodle, and I would like to make certain blocks visible on the homepage for both logged-in users and guests.

I have already checked the block settings and role permissions, but the blocks still don’t appear for non-logged-in users. Is there a specific setting to enable in Boost Union or any other configuration I should check?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Friday, 21 February 2025, 7:21 PM - Gordon Mills

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:21:35 GMT

by Gordon Mills.

Is there a way to have "Show course completion progress" course completion progress is visible inside the course overview block or not, only on certain courses?

Monday, 17 February 2025, 11:53 PM - Przemek Kaszubski

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:53:15 GMT

by Przemek Kaszubski.

@Alex Bias
DONE: https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues/826 .
Thanks for the encouragement
Cheers,
Przemek

Monday, 17 February 2025, 2:32 PM - Alexander Bias

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:32:22 GMT

by Alexander Bias.

@Przemek Kaszubski
May I ask you to report this issue on https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues ?
This comment section here is not the place to report bugs as indicated in the big banner at the top of this page.
Thank you.

Monday, 17 February 2025, 2:31 PM - Alexander Bias

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:31:15 GMT

by Alexander Bias.

@Ewout ter Haar
Please see https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/blob/main/CHANGES.md#v45-r7.
As soon as you update your Moodle core to 4.5.2, you are ready to go for the latest Boost Union release.

Monday, 17 February 2025, 4:25 AM - Przemek Kaszubski

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:25:13 GMT

by Przemek Kaszubski.

Hi, Just upgraded to the latest version of the plugin on my localhost Moodle 4.5.2. Set the "tinting" of activity icons, and am finding that the Activities course block does not seem to respect the theme_boost_union | activitiestintenabled set to Yes for MOST activities. Only these two Communication types icons - Forums and Wikis - are tinted as expected, all the other activity type icons remain black.

The other contexts seem to behave OK - Timeline, Upcoming events block and Recently accessed items all display all the colours.

I suspect one reason could be that the Activities block uses those smaller-sized icons?

I'm reporting this here, though I know the Activities block will be gone in Moodle 5. Still. the 4.5 version of Moodle is an LTS, so I think a solution should be provided.
I could add a bug tracker item for this, but thought to first indicate the issue here.

Thanks and best regards,

Przemek

Saturday, 15 February 2025, 1:00 AM - Ewout ter Haar

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:00:25 GMT

by Ewout ter Haar.

The plugin now requires Moodle 4.5.2 ($plugin->requires = 2024100702;). Why? Shouldn't I be able to install it in a 4.5.1 site?

Monday, 10 February 2025, 2:39 PM - Alexander Bias

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 06:39:40 GMT

by Alexander Bias.

Yes, we published a release recently, but had to retract the 4.4 and 4.5 versions temporarily due to automated test failures which occured after the publicaction. We are in the process of investigating and will re-publish it as soon as we are sure that the release works properly.

Sunday, 9 February 2025, 8:03 AM - Lin Zhong

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:03:46 GMT

by Lin Zhong.

Dear Sir or Madam,
Is there something wrong? It is said it was updated/released 15 hours ago, but the filename and file's version is same as the 6th Feb 2025.
Kindly please confirm.
Thanks and Best Wishes