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Theme editor: cover image/width settings for sidebar layout

A topic by Deerbell created Apr 16, 2020 Views: 457
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We recently published a game pagethat doesn't have any screenshots (yet). In this case, the possible options are to add a sidebar, which automatically shows the cover image and looks a bit strange otherwise as a giant blank column, or to hide the sidebar, resulting in a layout that makes text verrrrrrry wiiiiiide and difficult to read on a widescreen display. Adjusting the text to compensate by adding extra line breaks, etc, means it no longer flows well on mobile devices. We went with the latter to avoid the cover image showing up in the sidebar, but it's not great.

I think it would be nice in these cases to have at least one of the following two options in the theme editor:

  • Simple "Include cover image in sidebar" toggle checkbox, so that at least you could use the sidebar layout with no screenshots, even if it'd be blank
  • Even better, have an additional sidebar setting that functionally compresses the main game information column to the same width the sidebar would force it to if it were enabled, but behaves like the Sidebar: Hidden setting in that the column is centered. Even if it weren't customizable and just took up the same space the sidebar did, that'd be helpful, but a dropdown or box with some % max width settings would be nice.