Community Services Tips

Tip #70

July 26, 2022

If there’s a page you visit often on the Forum, consider making it your Forum homepage. Then, while logged in, whenever you click Home on the Forum menu or go to forum.community.vivaidi.xyz, you’ll be shown your chosen homepage.

To set a homepage:

1. Log in to your Vivaldi account on forum.community.vivaidi.xyz.
2. Go to forum.community.vivaidi.xyz/me/settings.
   Alternatively, click on your avatar in the top right corner and select Settings from the menu.
3. In the Select a Homepage section, click on the dropdown menu and select your preferred page or set a custom one.

Tip #56

July 6, 2022

You can access your Vivaldi email account on webmail.community.vivaidi.xyz, where Webmail’s Elastic (default) theme offers both light and dark versions.

Click on the moon icon at the bottom left corner of the page to switch to dark mode.

When dark mode is enabled, click on the sun to return to light mode.

Tip #27

May 26, 2022

A common way to enhance blog posts is to add images to it. When you host your blog on Vivaldi.net, you can easily find and insert images to the blog using the Instant Images plugin. With the plugin you can add images from Unsplash, Pixabay and Pexels directly to your blog’s Media Library, without having to download the files to your computer first.

To add a photo to your blog:

1. In the post or page editor, add a new image or gallery block.
2. Select Media Library and go to Instant Images tab.
3. Search through the files from Unsplash, Pixabay and Pexels.
4. When you’ve found one you like, click on the image.
5. After it has been added to your library, click Select in the bottom right corner of the Media Library window to add it to the post/page.

You can also go to your blog’s Dashboard > Media > Instant Images, to browse and add images to your library.

Tip #16

May 11, 2022

1. Log in to your Vivaldi account.
2. Go to https://forum.community.vivaidi.xyz/me/settings.
3. Scroll down to the Email section.
4. Choose how often you want to receive the Digest email. Choices are:
   • Daily,
   • Weekly,
   • Bi-weekly,
   • Monthly, and
   • Off i.e. disabled.
5. Click Save Changes.

The emails will be sent at the chosen interval to your account’s recovery email address.

Tip #9

May 2, 2022

If you’re familiar with reading and writing code, you can edit the desktop browser’s user interface with your own custom CSS modifications.

To get started:

1. In vivaldi://experiments, enable “Allow for using CSS modifications”.
2. In Settings > Appearance > Custom UI Modifications, select the folder where you’ll store all your custom CSS files.
3. Restart the browser.

Now you can start inspecting the user interface using Developer Tools, write up your own CSS for the elements you want to change and see the browser transform to fit your preferences even more.

Vivaldi Community shares and works on modifications together on the Forum’s Modifications category. Feel free to ask assistance and share your work there.

Important! Code shared on the forum has not been reviewed by the Vivaldi Team. Which means that issues, including security issues, may be present.

If you don’t want to risk corrupting your main browser profile, test your modifications in a different User Profile or use a Standalone version of Vivaldi.

Tip #7

April 28, 2022

Tip #5

April 26, 2022

Normally, forgetting a login password is no big deal. You can just reset it. But what if you no longer have access to the account’s recovery email and the all important email with a link to set a new password can’t reach you? Then restoring access to your account becomes a hassle that could’ve been easily avoided.

In addition, you might miss other important emails from us. Such as announcements about upcoming maintenance work when using our services might temporarily not be possible, or about updates to the Privacy Policy and the like.

To review your Vivaldi account information, including the recovery email:

1. Go to Vivaldi.net.
2. Log in to your account.
3. In the top right corner of the page, click on your username/avatar and select Profile.
4. On the profile update the recovery email, if needed.

You’ll find step-by-step instructions for updating the account’s recovery email and other account info on Vivaldi Help.

PS! While you’re at it, check the recovery email of your other online accounts, especially those you created a long time ago.

Tip #3

April 22, 2022

When browsing themes.community.vivaidi.xyz for new Themes for your desktop Vivaldi browser, you can get a live preview of the theme by clicking “Download theme”.

Then you have 1 minute to see how the theme looks. Make sure to check the Start Page to see how the awesome background image looks behind your Speed Dials. Other places where the user interface colours are clearly visible are Panels, Settings, Mail, etc.

When you’re satisfied with the theme, click “Install” in the pop-up to add the theme to your Theme Library. If it’s not really what you were looking for, click “Cancel” or let the preview time run out.