[JoyFreak] Articles Extended (Classic News)

[JoyFreak] Articles Extended (Classic News) 1.3.1

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  • If an article does not have an attachment or a linked image, the fallback would be the thread starter's avatar.
Two new options in style properties:
  • "Enable list view on mobile"
  • "Enable thumbnails"
"Enable thumbnails":
Currently, XenForo uses the full sized images as the cover image of the articles, so on the forum view the page can load slow due to these images. Instead, with the "Enable thumbnails" you can now replace those full sizes images with thumbnails and reduce the page load time. Note: this only works with attachments and not linked images.

"Enable list view on mobile":
This option keeps the layout on desktop the same on mobile, ensuring consistency throughout different devices.
  • Added widget definition to display a list of new articles. Simply head over to Widgets > Add widget > Widget definition: [JoyFreak] New articles
  • Added a few extra style properties for the widget styling
  • A couple styling adjustments
  • Added style property to add padding around the article message.
  • Added style property to remove post replies from article posts (this was added because of an upcoming free add-on).
  • Added option to enable "NewsArticle" schema for article posts. You can learn more about this schema here.
  • Two custom user fields can be added for:
    • Author name
    • Author about
If you want to replace the default "About you" output for the article author box and the article poster's username in various parts of the article forum view and article post then use the following Field ID's under Users > Custom user fields:
  • jfae_author_name
  • jfae_author_about
The rest of the other fields are optional. You'll want "Single-line text box" for author name and "Multi-line text box" or "Rich text box" for author about. The author about allows use of BBCode.

Suggested "Author name" description:
If specified, this will replace the username displayed on article pages.

Suggested "Author about" description:
If specified, this will replace the about you description displayed in the author box on article pages.

If you want to control the permissions for who can view/use these two fields then I'd recommend this free Custom Fields Permissions add-on by Xon.
  • Option added to select which nodes you want to enable the Articles Extended add-on for.
  • Added padding between article meta and message content on forum view.
  • Center the author in the middle of the text.
  • Added 7 style properties for article view:
    • Adjust article message font size
    • Adjust article quote message font size
    • Adjust the line height of the article message
    • Move tags below author box
    • Remove author user title
    • Remove author stats
    • Remove author banner
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Reactions: Old Nick
This update cleans the code and fixes a styling issue.
Update to make this add-on compatible with a new add-on (Nodes Extended) that's being released today.

Changes:
  • Added one styling options
  • Updated code to make compatible with upcoming add-on
  • Code clean up
Fixed image sizing below the 5th article not applying correctly.
Tided the code up.
  • Added remove thread prefixes
  • Added remove social sharing icon
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