⚶ Vesta Classic Look & Feel (Webtrees 2 Custom Module)
This webtrees custom module adjusts all themes and other features, providing a look & feel closer to the webtrees 1.x version. The project’s website is cissee.de.
This is a webtrees 2.x module - It cannot be used with webtrees 1.x.
Contents
Features
Layout
- The overall width is adjusted for larger resolutions, as suggested here
- The individual page is adjusted further:
- Smaller sidebar
- Less padding between elements
- The key-value pairs of the name parts are inline
- Gender information is moved to the header (as an icon)
- Media edit controls is moved to the edit menu (a better place for these edit controls may be the Media tab itself)
| default 'webtrees' theme | adjusted 'webtrees' theme |
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- All edit dialogs are also displayed in a more compact layout.
- Note that this module itself is not a theme: The webtrees user will not be able to switch between the compact and the regular layout! All layout adjustments are globally configurable though.
- Further suggestions are very welcome!
Functionality
- The module optionally displays nicknames as in webtrees 1.x (before the surname). See here for the related discussion.
- The module allows to use xrefs with specific prefixes, as in webtrees 1.x. See e.g. here for the related discussion.
- The module provides fine-grained configuration options for all GEDCOM tags, as described here.
Download
- Current version: 2.1.20.1.0
- Based on and tested with webtrees 2.1.20. Requires webtrees 2.1.17 or later.
- Requires the ⚶ Vesta Common module ('vesta_common').
- Download the zip file, which includes all Vesta modules, here.
- Support, suggestions, feature requests: ric@richard-cissee.de
- Issues also via https://github.com/vesta-webtrees-2-custom-modules/classic_laf/issues
- Translations may be contributed via weblate: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/vesta-webtrees-custom-modules/
Installation
- Unzip the files and copy the contents of the modules_v4 folder to the respective folder of your webtrees installation. All related modules are included in the zip file. It's safe to overwrite the respective directories if they already exist (they are bundled with other custom modules as well), as long as other custom models using these dependencies are also upgraded to their respective latest versions.
- Enable the main module via Control Panel -> Modules -> All modules -> ⚶ Vesta Classic Look & Feel. After that, you may configure some options.
License
- vesta_classic_look_and_feel: a webtrees custom module
- Copyright (C) 2020 – 2024 Richard Cissée
- Derived from webtrees - Copyright 2022 webtrees development team.
- Dutch translations provided by TheDutchJewel.
- Czech translations provided by Josef Prause.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.