Unable to update default footer

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1

Hi All, I am trying to hide the default footer using frontend slots.i have created a tutor plugin by following this and in myplugin.py i have posted the below code

from tutormfe.hooks import PLUGIN_SLOTS

PLUGIN_SLOTS.add_items([

#Hide the default footer

(
“all”,
“footer_slot”,
“”"
{
op: PLUGIN_OPERATIONS.Hide,
widgetId: ‘default_contents’,
}“”"
),

#Insert a custom footer

(
“all”,
“footer_slot”,
“”"
{
op: PLUGIN_OPERATIONS.Insert,
widget: {
id: ‘custom_footer’,
type: DIRECT_PLUGIN,
RenderWidget: () => (
This is the footer.
),
},
}“”"
)
])
then i build the mfe image.unfortunately its not overriding the default footer.both footer are showing

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How can i solve this.i just want to hide the default footer.kindly help

2

Hmm.. that’s confusing. Might be a bug in the Indigo theme? Can you disable the Indigo tutor plugin and give it another try?

When I tested, nothing happened until I disabled the Indigo theme. So I thought the Indigo theme was replacing the frontend-component-footer and didn’t have the slot. But if one of the config is working and the other isn’t I am not sure what exactly is going on.

3

Indigo messes with the plugin slots in a confusing way. Disabling Indigo will allow you to use the slots as documented. If you don’t want to disable Indigo, search the forums - there’s definitely been posts about this previously.

4

Indigo basically has its own custom headers and footers baked in, which are outdated and don’t include the plugin slot functionality. We’re currently doing R&D on removing Indigo’s headers/footers and replacing them with the default Open edX ones — once that’s in place, plugin slots will work out of the box.

In the meantime, if you want to keep using Indigo but still leverage plugin slots, you can fork Indigo and comment out or remove the following lines:
https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-indigo/blob/712ccff2992416f49fdd35cdcb90dfac8d778a21/tutorindigo/plugin.py#L123C1-L124C102

This will strip out Indigo’s headers/footers so the default Open edX ones load, allowing plugin slots to work as expected.