CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[Martok]

Hello, This is a wonderful add on, thankyou for the update.
Since upgrading though I am getting slower page load times.
Is there anything I can do to fix that?
Many thanks

You'll have to be more specific. All forum pages slower or just the Featured Threads page? Are you using background images in featured threads? Are you using the slider and on which pages? Does disabling the add-on speed up page loading?

 

[slinky123]

Thankyou Martok for helping
Its all pages. I only have 2 featured threads and neither have backgrounds.
I have disabled as you advised, and the speed increased signifcantly.
I then enabled and I noticed that it was rebuilding templates again.
My speed is now back to what it was. It seems that disabling/re-enabling has fixed the issue.
Thankyou

 

[Gemma]

Is there any way to resize the slider other than changing the height/width values in style properties? If I change them to 50% it is clashing with the slider on @Bob B Showcase mod which also uses the bxslider class

 

[Paul B]

The Style Properties are linked to the CSS in the cta_featuredthreads_slider.css template.
So changing it in the SPs for CTA Featured Threads Slider -> Image will update the template.

What size are you trying to change the slider to?

If you can post a link to the page with the problem I can check it and see if anything can be done.

 

[Gemma]

The Style Properties are linked to the CSS in the cta_featuredthreads_slider.css template.
So changing it in the SPs for CTA Featured Threads Slider -> Image will update the template.

What size are you trying to change the slider to?

If you can post a link to the page with the problem I can check it and see if anything can be done.

Think I've (maybe) got it, I was using % before and it was cutting the end off the showcase slider, I've changed it to 715px by 350px and it looks a bit better. But I could be doing it all wrong ha.

http://www.generalchatter.co.uk/forums/

 

[Bob]

Is there any way to resize the slider other than changing the height/width values in style properties? If I change them to 50% it is clashing with the slider on @Bob B Showcase mod which also uses the bxslider class

I'll change this in Showcase so you won't have to worry about it. We are using the same class differently, so I'll add a secondary class and force important on it to prevent a height added to the bx-container.

 

[Paul B]

Thanks @Bob B.

If you need me to do anything with FT to make them play together better, let me know.

 

[tommydamic68]

Neve noticed it before, I have a large empty space on some FT threads. Any way to fill it in without effecting the homepage FT?

 

[Lisa]

Neve noticed it before, I have a large empty space on some FT threads. Any way to fill it in without effecting the homepage FT?

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They look like they're caused by the size of the images... reduce the size of them ?

 

[tommydamic68]

They look like they're caused by the size of the images... reduce the size of them ?

Thanks - I would rather add more content to fill it in without effecting the FT on the homepage.

 

[tommydamic68]

They look like they're caused by the size of the images... reduce the size of them ?

Thanks - I would rather add more content to fill it in without effecting the FT on the homepage.

That doesn't change it either.

 

[JacquiiDesigns]

Kinda got my eye on this add-on.
Can someone share a few links with this add-on installed? Maybe a showcase of what you think are the best uses of this add-on?
I'd kinda like to see what people are doing to customize their installs.
Thanks!

J.

 

[Martok]

Kinda got my eye on this add-on.
Can someone share a few links with this add-on installed? Maybe a showcase of what you think are the best uses of this add-on?
I'd kinda like to see what people are doing to customize their installs.
Thanks!

J.

See this post for some sites.

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/cta-featured-threads-portal-paid.64261/#post-678212

Also check out http://support.cliptheapex.com for more information and to test it yourself.

 

[Lisa]

That doesn't change it either.

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CTA Featured Threads Page, Thread Content (Icon) - min-height in there is set at 198px - if you change that, it'll change the size of that particular block but you'll likely need to tweak icon sizes for that page too.

 

[tommydamic68]

CTA Featured Threads Page, Thread Content (Icon) - min-height in there is set at 198px - if you change that, it'll change the size of that particular block but you'll likely need to tweak icon sizes for that page too.

Unfortunately that didn't change anything...

 

[tommydamic68]

CTA Featured Threads Page, Thread Content (Icon) - min-height in there is set at 198px - if you change that, it'll change the size of that particular block but you'll likely need to tweak icon sizes for that page too.

Unfortunately that didn't change anything...

I found the issue, I had that block size amongst other changes in my EXTRA.css...

 

[JacquiiDesigns]

See this post for some sites.

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/cta-featured-threads-portal-paid.64261/#post-678212

Also check out http://support.cliptheapex.com for more information and to test it yourself.

Well duh! Second post...
I saw the 138 pages of comments and said no way! Thought I'd just ask instead of trying to go through those pages.
Probably could have at least read the first page anyway LOL. Thanks so kindly @Martok

J.

 

[Paul B]

@MsJacquiiC, feel free to register here if you would like to test how featuring works: http://support.cliptheapex.com/

There are manual and automatic testing forums:
http://support.cliptheapex.com/forums/manual-featuring/
http://support.cliptheapex.com/forums/automatic-featuring/

 

[Digital Doctor]

Suggestion: [Interact] button on Portal page to comment on the article from the home page ?

 

[Paul B]

Replies should be posted on the thread.