CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[Amaury]

Glad to hear it @oman.
It looks great.

It never ceases to amaze me that others find this useful, considering its humble beginnings.

That's because you did a fantastic job with this, Brogan!

 

[jauburn]

I haven't kept up with this of late...could you tell me whether the thread creator gets notified now when one of his/her threads gets featured?

 

[Paul B]

Yes.

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/cta-featured-threads.2599/update?update=8011

 

[jauburn]

Yes.

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/cta-featured-threads.2599/update?update=8011

Cool!

I noted an oddity. When the featured thread block is configured to show the author's name under the avatar, long user names get wrapped awkwardly, as in this:



"mesher" is one word and should not be wrapped.

 

[Paul B]

Which version are you running?

The latest version has overflow for the author user name:


You can also change the width to greater than 100px, should you want the complete user name to display.

 

[jauburn]

Which version are you running?

Latest version. User name should wrap at space, not in the middle of a name.

 

[Paul B]

I just checked using Chrome and it's displaying correctly:


Which browser is that you're using?

User name should wrap at space, not in the middle of a name.

Overflow doesn't work like that and I have no control over that aspect of it.

 

[jauburn]

I just checked using Chrome and it's displaying correctly:
View attachment 67469

Which browser is that you're using?

IE9. I don't like it but I use it because it's still being used by a lot of people.

 

[Paul B]

IE9 should work with that CSS.
Unfortunately I don't have access to IE9 so I can't do any testing.

It works in the latest version of IE so all I can suggest is you upgrade/change your browser or edit the Style Properties to cater for older browsers.
Try adding word-wrap: normal; to the Miscellaneous field.

If that works, let me know and I will add it to the next release.

 

[Paul B]

OK, so it looks like I just need to add word-wrap: normal; to the author element.
It's already present on the title, so I probably just overlooked adding it there.
It will be in the next release, but in the meantime you can edit the SP to add it manually.



Make sure you add it for the individual blocks and the page.

 

[CTXMedia]

A couple of suggestions from one of my moderators (apologies if these have already been suggested):

1. Allow a thread to be featured from the Moderation Actions drop-down (image below)
2. Show the featured expiry date in thread view

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Paul B]

Can you elaborate on 2?

Where do you anticipate the "Featured until ...." being shown?

 

[CTXMedia]

He wasn't specific, but what about something simple like this:



Just add the day / month after the featured tag wording? (excuse the anti-alias fuzz on the text - I couldn't quite match the original screenshot)

 

[Paul B]

Hmm, I'm not a fan of that really.

Anyone else have an opinion?

P.S. That's forum view, not thread view I originally thought you wanted it displayed when viewing the thread.

 

[Motobaka]

Having the end date be displayed would be good for us too, but knowing where it should be displayed is not something I´m good at.

 

[CTXMedia]

P.S. That's forum view, not thread view I originally thought you wanted it displayed when viewing the thread.

Sorry, my fault - in my head it was "when you're viewing the list of threads" - which is, of course, forum view.

 

[Sheldon]

Not a fan of the date...

If it was added, I can see me replacing the date with a Font Awesome calendar icon, and when hovering over the calendar the date will show as either a tooltip or a title.

 

[Paul B]

It would need to be in both forum view and thread view if it was going to be added.
It doesn't make sense to have it in one and not the other.

Taking it further, it would also need to be on the block - undoubtedly someone would query why it wasn't.

I'll have a think on it but I can't see yet an elegant way to do it.

 

[Paul B]

and when hovering over the calendar the date will show as either a tooltip or a title.

A tooltip would be a nice solution but of course they don't work for touch devices.

 

[Martok]

Not a fan of the date being shown in this way.

I can see it would be useful to have the end date shown somewhere but I think it is only relevant to moderators - ordinary users don't need it and probably don't care either.