CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[cdub]

Yes, you can change the size in Style Properties - you can make them a fixed height or dynamic.

Copy how it is done for the page for the thread content and thread text if you want them dynamic.

Sorry but I'm not seeing where that is. I'm in style properties but I'm not seeing the fixed or dynamic options.

 

[Paul B]

They are not options.

You need to update the Style Properties to achieve the layout you want.

 

[cdub]

And also I'm seeing the # of likes and views listed in the blocks when I select that option but they don't seem to be showing up on the main featured page:

http://www.studentfilms.com/

http://www.studentfilms.com/forums/applying-to-film-school.50/

 

[Paul B]

There are separate Style Properties for blocks and pages.

I would highly recommend reading the main resource description and then spending 10 minutes exploring the options and style properties available.

 

[cdub]

Ensure the Options and Style Properties are set accordingly.

I feel like there are set accordingly but I'm not seeing any Featured Blocks on the categories page:

http://www.studentfilms.com/categories/film-school-forums.6/

How can I add one?

 

[Paul B]

They don't display on categories.

They display on the forum list, forum view and new/recent posts pages.

I'm surprised anyone actually uses pages for categories.
I think you're one of a tiny minority who do.

 

[cdub]

They don't display on categories.

They display on the forum list, forum view and new/recent posts pages.

I'm surprised anyone actually uses pages for categories.
I think you're one of a tiny minority who do.

I use it with Nodes as Tabs.

I just turned it off and all seems to be looking better. I had forgotten that I turned it on as an option.

 

[dethfire]

ew, I just found a problem. I merged a thread into a "featured" thread and it appears to have unfeatured it. It's no longer listed anywhere.

 

[Paul B]

That is currently as designed.

I have changed it in 2.12 so if the featured thread is the destination thread it will remain featured.

 

[The Grand Potentate]

@Brogan got an email from Bing this morning saying that I was producing all sorts of 403 errors and I needed to check my webmaster tools. When I looked in my account, I found a whole host of these links:

http://www.dressedwell.net/forum/threads/this-week-in-science-technology.78/featuredthreadimages

That thread isn't featured. None of the other ones linked are featured either. Obviously, when I click the links Bing is providing, I get this error message:



Any idea what's going on there?

 

[Paul B]

That has been addressed in 2.12 - the link is no longer available to guests/crawlers.

Actually, due to other changes, one template containing that specific bit of code has been removed.
The only other link which exists is now wrapped with a guest conditional statement.

 

[The Grand Potentate]

Sounds good.

 

[cdub]

Can I make a feature request to incorporate the Post Ratings add on into the Automatic Featuring? So that if a post gets X amount of positive ratings it can be featured automatically.

This is the add on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-ratings-taking-likes-to-the-next-level.410/

 

[Paul B]

Unfortunately I would never add any dependency with any other third party add-on.

 

[cdub]

Unfortunately I would never add any dependency with any other third party add-on.

Understandable. Hmmm... maybe there's some other way I can make it work with automatic featuring on their end. As in all "positive" ratings are converted to likes.

 

[Paul B]

It could be done with a separate, dependent add-on, which would be installed separately to this one.

So essentially this second add-on would extend the functionality of this one.

 

[cdub]

It could be done with a separate, dependent add-on, which would be installed separately to this one.

So essentially this second add-on would extend the functionality of this one.

Does such an add on exist?

 

[Paul B]

No, I would have to write it.

 

[cdub]

Ahh... Well I'd pay for that! I'm sure others would too.

 

[Paul B]

I don't have a copy of the post ratings add-on so I'll speak to Luke and see if he can give me the schema details so I can look at what's involved.