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Rigel Kentaurus
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There is a global permission for categories, but individual categories are not permission based
Shelley
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The appearance can be significantly changed with css. Whatever design you want to do I am sure it can be done easily which was my experience whilst tinkering with it in firebug.
Adam Howard
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Do not make Better Blogs look like XI Blog.
Look, most of the people on this site are forum users & forum administrators. They can not help to think "forum".
If you want real blog users, you need to think "blog". And for most people here that is not exactly possible. It's not their fault. They're just forum type people (after all, XenForo is forum software).
My point being is that if you want design advise, you really should hit up people on WordPress.org or 3rd party blog sites such as Thoughts.com.
Because XI Blog, looks like forum software. And this is not going to attract bloggers.
Rigel Kentaurus
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I completely agree
I am basing my inspiration in Wordpress and Tumblr to a lesser extend, I have no intention to make it look like a list of threads, I hate that it looks that way.
There are some other anti-patterns in XI Blog that I don't agree with, for example, when someone comments on an entry, the entry gets bumped to the top. That might make sense in a thread (new post, thread goes to the top), but it makes absolutely no sense in a blog that is chronological by nature.
Expect to see a bigger push to more blog features and less forum ones. For forums we already have .. well, the forum
I liked the idea of leveraging the blog to create a TechCrunch like page, or even creating a home page based on the Blog layout once the widgets are powerful enough. That is where I am headed instead.I don't think anyone was suggesting it should look like XI Blogs. The comment was more that XI Blogs was neater as it used the standard classes, etc.
I much prefer the "homepage" on Better Blogs than XI Blogs apart from some of the horrid styling like the category strips and date bits. If some of that styling could be fixed then it'd look much nicer
Shelley
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I don't think anyone was suggesting it should look like XI Blogs. The comment was more that XI Blogs was neater as it used the standard classes, etc.
I much prefer the "homepage" on Better Blogs than XI Blogs apart from some of the horrid styling like the category strips and date bits. If some of that styling could be fixed then it'd look much nicer
The category areas and date bits can be easily modified (I just installed it) so I might get some guides and enhancements posted at Rigels site when I've looked into it more. I agree the default shipping styling of BB can be nicer so hopefully now we can offer some suggestions to rigel and give him something to work from.
DRE
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Here's my first major suggestion in awhile: Featured Blogs Slider with Ratings: http://xfaddons.com/threads/featured-blogs-slider-with-ratings.189/
DRE
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And another suggestion: Thread Importer: http://xfaddons.com/threads/thread-importer.190/
DRE
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Featured Blog Sliders are one of the most popular features of Wordpress and blogging software. In order for Better Blogs to be Best Blogs I think it needs one. Not everyone will buy Promoted Content but at least they could still feature their blogs in Better Blogs.
Also, Promoted Content does more than just blogs, it does threads, albums and other content. I will still use it because you can configure what content you want to show on any page. You won't be able to do that with the Featured Blogs widget. It doesn't make sense for Rigel to have to create a slider that includes albums and threads.
Adam Howard
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http://xfaddons.com/forums/better-blogs.10/
Make sure to register using the same e-mail address you used to purchase. Then contact @Rigel Kentaurus
Adam Howard
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@Rigel Kentaurus
Please make sure your free version and paid version have the same version number as you release them or have the paid version 1 version above it....
Right now if someone did purchase your full version as an upgrade from the paid, they would be told the version number is older & that downgrade is not possible.
I know because I was not paying attention to which site I was uploading files to & mistakenly installed the free version over the paid. And in order to revert back, I had to edit the XML file
Please make sure your free version and paid version have the same version number as you release them or have the paid version 1 version above it....
Right now if someone did purchase your full version as an upgrade from the paid, they would be told the version number is older & that downgrade is not possible.
I know because I was not paying attention to which site I was uploading files to & mistakenly installed the free version over the paid. And in order to revert back, I had to edit the XML file
Rigel Kentaurus
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I wasn't expecting anyone to try to upload the paid version over the free one so soon
My build system generates both at the same time, so in the future they will be in sync. Thanks for the comment, and glad you found a workaround.
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