CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[Paul B]

Keep what a fixed size?

The page width you set will apply globally.

 

[farmglitch]

That's fine globally works for me as long as it stays responsive.

 

[Paul B]

It is fully responsive.

 

[farmglitch]

Yes responsive works great. when I go to your site on my big screen you have large borders and your pictures don't blow up. On my site the whole site fits the large screen and the pictures blow up way to big. How do I fix that so I have large borders so the whole site doesn't try and fit the screen?

 

[Paul B]

My site has a maximum fixed width.

That is a core setting and nothing to do with this add-on.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/frequently-asked-questions.5183/#post-181037

 

[farmglitch]

Ohh ok my bad Thanks man.

 

[farmglitch]

How do I use an SVG with the slider? I downloaded this addon and it works great for my logo. I would like to use it to have svg's in the slider.
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/svg-templates-by-waindigo.43585/

 

[Paul B]

I have no idea what that add-on does.

Regardless, .svg files can't be uploaded to be used for icons, backgrounds, etc.

 

[farmglitch]

I was actually surprised it worked for me with out any mods done to the plug in. I just uploaded the add on, put my vector image in the same place as my logo and set the logo path to logo.svg instead of logo.png. They say you can use this to link to your templates.
<img src="svg.php?svg=XXXXXXXX&amp;style={xen:urlencode $_styleId}&language={$visitorLanguage.language_id}&dir={$visitorLanguage.text_direction}&d={$visitorStyle.last_modified_date}" />

 

[Martok]

I'm trying to sort the styling on my site based on what @Gazhyde has done. I'm using the SPs to do this. I'm currently doing this on my test site before transferring to my live site. I've managed the home page just fine which is currently looking like this (I may tweak a few things further):

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I am however having a small problem with the blocks on the forums page:

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The issue you can see is at the top right where the FT controls are. The issue seems to be relating to using overflow CSS.

On the home page I don't have this problem - I removed the overflow CSS from the title and there isn't any for the text.

On the forums page, there is overflow in both the title and the text. The text of course requires it or it would overflow right down the container. I don't want to remove it from the title as when I do, the title container extends to the left (underneath the avatar I think) and at narrow widths titles can go onto two lines and I end up with the last line of text in the text section being clipped (but only if the title goes onto a second line).

Of course this issue doesn't occur if you don't see the FT controls.

I've tried various things but I still can't get it to look the way I want. Any suggestions?

I thought I'd do a follow-up to the post above for anyone who is interested. With a pointer in the right direction from @Brogan I solved the problem of the FT controls as shown in the second image in that post. What I had to do was style the FT controls, giving those the same opaque background as the title and text containers. It nearly solved the problem, except for one small thing:



The corner radius for the title container. It had to remain because if the FT controls aren't visible (e.g. to guests) the title container extends to the right edge of where the FT controls are. Where it is in the screenshot above, it needed to be squared off (radius 0px) but only when there. This was solved by editing an FT template and creating a new class for the title container when the FT controls were visible (ie using a conditional to do this) and then styling the new class. Once I worked out how to do this, it was complete:



Having got this working on my test site, I've now set it up on my live site if anyone wants to check it out.

So, the majority of what I have done has been using the SPs, with one edit to an FT template and some CSS added to the FT CSS template (I decided to put it here but it could go in EXTRA.css).

If anyone wants to do something similar and needs some pointers in getting there, then I'm happy to help.

 

[Paul B]

Nicely done @Martok.

If anyone else wants to showcase what they have done, post the link to your site and whether you would like a screenshot adding and I will add it to the second thread.

Are you OK for me to add some screenshots of your site @Martok?

 

[Martok]

Are you OK for me to add some screenshots of your site @Martok?

More than happy for you to do so.

 

[Paul B]

I have updated the second post with some more screenshots: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/cta-featured-threads-portal-paid.64261/#post-678212

Even with just those few sites, it shows how flexible the add-on is and how easy it is to make a unique looking home page.

 

[FredC]

Im still trying (and have spent dozens of hours trying to solve this myself) to move my share controls to the same line as Views, Replies, and Read More..

Im not asking for anyone to post the entire template edit but a little guidance so i might learn something in the process would be Awesome..

I have been moving snippets from various templates i think pertain to what im trying to move but so far all ive managed to do is a ton of reverts.
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Also noticed that Property Group: CTA Featured Threads Page Footer & Sharing / Share Controls Doesn't allow me to input a custom color for text when creating my own css button.. Im sure there is a simple reason im missing or its local but frustrating trying to change that properties text color when i input a hex value no change is noticed.

 

[Russ]

I have updated the second post with some more screenshots: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/cta-featured-threads-portal-paid.64261/#post-678212

Even with just those few sites, it shows how flexible the add-on is and how easy it is to make a unique looking home page.

Hey Brogan, if you want you can throw this up

 

[Paul B]

@FredC, you will need to move the contents of the cta_featuredthreads_list_item_share and cta_featuredthreads_featured_list_item_share to the footer div, or vice versa.

You will also need to move <xen:set var="$url"> accordingly as that passes the url to the share elements.

Essentially all you need to do is put everything in one div.

With regards to the custom button in the footer, make sure you are applying the class to it.

 

[FredC]

Thanks Brogan but i didnt understand 89% of that.

Learning is over rated.. and money talks louder than begging. $10 USD paypal to the first person who PM's me the template edits required to make my desired changes.. Of course the edits must work properly. (PP account required) Offer Accepted and Completed..

 

[Paul B]

I'll have a look when I'm back at my PC.

 

[erich37]

Hi Brogan,

1)
where you have: "Likes: 15 / Views: 23 / Replies: 1"

- can it actually show "who liked it" (same as within the thread) ?
- can it show "who replied" or "Latest Reply" (same as "Latest" in the Forum-List) ?
- can it hide the "Views" ?

2)
will this Addon be working with XF 2.0 ?

 

[Paul B]

No, it doesn't show the list of members who likes the content, it is just a numeric count.
The same replies, it is just a count of the total replies.
The idea is to get people interested to actually visit the thread.

Yes the view data can be removed via Style Properties, as can all of the individual elements.

This version won't, no.
It will have to be rewritten for 2.0.