Vision

Fix: the welcome message now stays above the Latest Threads widget on a fresh install of this theme.

RaxBoard 1.7.0 moved the guest welcome banner to the top of the forum index, above any widget placed in the "above content" area. This theme ships its own copy of the forum index and layout, so it needed the same change — without it, installing the theme after upgrading to 1.7.0 put the welcome message back underneath the widgets.

Also carries the 1.7.0 style-permission support: when an administrator removes the "Edit theme style settings" or "Switch theme" permission from a group, this theme no longer renders the style-tweaks link, the quick-tweaks panel or the footer theme picker for those members.

Requires RaxBoard 1.7.0 or newer for the permissions to have any effect; on an older core the theme behaves exactly as before.

New: administrators can lock the theme design.

RaxBoard core adds two optional group permissions — "Edit theme style settings" and "Switch theme". Both default to allowed, so nothing changes until an administrator turns one off in Admin > User Groups > Permissions.

This theme release makes them effective in its own templates: when "Edit theme style settings" is denied, the style-tweaks link, the quick-tweaks drawer and every trigger this theme ships are no longer rendered for that group, and when "Switch theme" is denied the footer theme picker is hidden. The members saved style preferences are then ignored so the design the administrators configured is what renders — the saved choices are kept, not deleted, and re-granting the permission restores them.

On an older core without those permissions the theme behaves exactly as before.

Fix: dialogs and overlays could open far down the page.

The page fade-in animation briefly applied a transform to the main content area, which made it the positioning reference for any modal opened during those first milliseconds — the dialog was then sized and placed against the content block instead of the window. The animation now fades opacity only.

Updated for RaxBoard 1.6.0 — verified badges, pinned-alerts dropdown, and user-group username styling now render in this theme, plus the latest editor and gallery template rows.

Advertisement placement: sidebar ads now render in the right widget column (previously trapped in the collapsed icon rail and invisible). Added baseline ad styling so banners stay centered and contained.

Fix: "edit message" now works on a message you just sent in a conversation (edit handler delegated to the messages container).

Fix: theme CSS now scoped by data-theme-id (was hardcoded to a numeric style id) so the full reskin applies on any install regardless of the assigned style id.

Initial marketplace release.