fof/forum-widgets-core

Core Extension for Managing Forum Widgets

2.0.0-beta.2 2026-04-12 23:21 UTC

Requires

• flarum/core: ^2.0.0

Requires (Dev)

• flarum/phpstan: ^2.0.0

Replaces

• afrux/forum-widgets-core: *

MIT

• FriendsOfFlarum

• framework
• core
• widgets
• flarum

README

A Flarum extension. Core framework for managing forum widgets.

Note

This package was previously maintained as afrux/forum-widgets-core by @SychO9. It has been transferred to FriendsOfFlarum and is now published as fof/forum-widgets-core. The composer.json replace field ensures existing installs upgrade transparently — no manual removal needed.

Installation

Remember that this is just a forum widgets editor, it doesn't actually come with any widgets.

composer require fof/forum-widgets-core:"*"

Migrating from afrux/forum-widgets-core

If you currently have afrux/forum-widgets-core installed, run:

composer require fof/forum-widgets-core:"*"
composer remove afrux/forum-widgets-core
php flarum cache:clear

Updating

composer update fof/forum-widgets-core:"*"
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Extend

Extension developers wanting to create widgets with this small framework, the following explains how you can register a new widget, for now you should only register one widget per extension.

1. Require this extension in your extension's composer.json:

"require": {
  "flarum/core": "^2.0.0",
  "fof/forum-widgets-core": "^2.0.0"
}

1. Create your widget's component in common/components by extending the base Widget component:

import Widget from 'ext:fof/forum-widgets-core/common/components/Widget';

export default class MyWidget extends Widget {
  className() {
    // Custom class name.
    // Use "FofWidgets-Widget--flat" for a flat widget (no container block).
    return 'MyWidget';
  }

  icon() {
    return 'fas fa-circle';
  }

  title() {
    return app.translator.trans('my-extension.forum.widget.title');
  }

  content() {
    return <div className="MyWidget-content">...</div>;
  }
}

1. Register your widget in both frontends. Create common/registerWidget.js:

import Widgets from 'ext:fof/forum-widgets-core/common/extend/Widgets';
import MyWidget from './components/MyWidget';

export default function (app) {
  new Widgets()
    .add({
      key: 'myWidget',
      component: MyWidget,
      // Can be a callback: () => app.forum.attribute('mySetting')
      isDisabled: false,
      // Is this a one-time-use widget? Leave true if unsure.
      isUnique: true,
      // Default values, overridable by the admin.
      placement: 'end',
      position: 1,
    })
    .extend(app, 'my-extension-id');
}

Then in both admin/index.js and forum/index.js:

import registerWidget from '../common/registerWidget';

app.initializers.add('my-extension-id', () => {
  registerWidget(app);
});

1. For TypeScript, add this to the paths key in your tsconfig.json:

"ext:fof/forum-widgets-core/*": ["../vendor/fof/forum-widgets-core/js/dist-typings/*"]

Links

• Packagist
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