Zen Postbox Add-On Update!
The Zen Postbox add-on has been updated to version 1.3
This fixes an issue where the postbox styling was not shown sitewide or when users were not logged into the server. Now if either of the add-ons is enabled the postboxes should be shown on that server everywhere, even to users who are not logged in.
The add-ons have also been updated to make sure they work with the 2025.7 Release Candidate development version.
Again, the difference between Postbox and Zen Postbox is the first one only includes the stylesheet to show them. You have to manually add the BBcode to your posts. The "Zen" one adds a button to the Compose modal to let you pick from a list and automatically adds the BBcode to your post.
Random Penguin
in reply to Random Penguin • • •If the animated backgrounds are not working:
1. make sure when you install the update that the folder name is "zen_postbox" and not "zen_postbox-1.3"
2. check that the permissions for that folder and the sub-folders are correct.
3. Lastly, you will likely have to go into Main Menu > Admin > Addons and disable and re-enable the Zen Postbox addon to get the new "head" hook to register.
4. Open Compose and press the rainbow background button. If you can see the thumbnails for the animated ones you're good. If the last 11 boxes are empty check everything again. If this fix worked you'll see all the thumbnails, and if you add one of the animated ones to your post draft and Preview it you should see the background in the preview.
This does not affect the "Postbox" addon. In Bookface this only affects the animated backgrounds because they are not included in Bookface while the rest of them are.
@Kevin (I noticed it seems to be broken on dillyofapickle).
Kevin
in reply to Random Penguin • • •Random Penguin
in reply to Kevin • • •Roland Häder🇩🇪
in reply to Random Penguin • • •@Alt Pygoscelis Papua @Kevin If you mean editing templates, then your cache at
/view/smarty3/compiled/need to be purged. Just delete allxxdirectories in it. And please don't forget to run./bin/composer.phar installon your development system and with--no-devon your server. Plus you want to truncate the tablehookswhich contains "cached" addon call-back data:TRUNCATE TABLE `hook`. If your addon has own configuration tables, then you maybe want to delete their entries inconfig, too.And which cache driver have you configured? REDIS?
Random Penguin
in reply to Roland Häder🇩🇪 • • •/view/smarty3/compiled/were cache files, good to know!Roland Häder🇩🇪
in reply to Random Penguin • • •src/Render/FriendicaSmartyand seem to rely on the default behavior of how Smarty handles updating its cache. I need to investigate this mater further.Roland Häder🇩🇪
in reply to Roland Häder🇩🇪 • • •FriendicaSmarty::__construct()constructor while it could use thereDI::config()->get('foo', 'bar');directly avoiding longer parameter lists?