CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[DaveM]

Ok I just manually featured a thread and it is now working so I have no idea what the problem was then, thanks for the help

 

[Arty]

How to make featured threads slider use Font Awesome:

Open cta_featuredthreads_slider.css, add this at start:

/* Font Awesome entries */
.bx-wrapper .bx-prev:after,
.bx-wrapper .bx-next:after,
.bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-start:after,
.bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-stop:after
{
   position: absolute;
   left: 0;
   right: 0;
   top: 0;
   line-height: 1em;
   text-indent: 0;
   font-family: FontAwesome;
   font-weight: normal;
   font-style: normal;
   color: #fff;
   pointer-events: none;
   transition: opacity .2s ease;
   text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
}

then find all lines that have cta-featured-threads-slider-controls.png as part of it and delete them (4 lines)

then find

.bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-start:hover,
.bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-start.active
{
   background-position: -86px 0;
}

and replace with

  .bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-start:after
   {
     content: '\f0da';
     font-size: 14px;
     top: -1px;
     opacity: .75;
   }

   .bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-start:hover:after,
   .bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-start.active:after
   {
     opacity: 1;
   }

then find

  margin: 0 3px;
}

.bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-stop:hover,
.bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-stop.active
{
   background-position: -86px -33px;
}

and replace with

  margin: 0 3px;
   position: relative;
}

   .bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-stop:after
   {
     content: '\f04c';
     font-size: 10px;
     opacity: .75;
   }

   .bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-stop:hover:after,
   .bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-stop.active:after
   {
     opacity: 1;
   }

   .bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-start.active:after,
   .bx-wrapper .bx-controls-auto .bx-stop.active:after
   {
     color: {xen:property secondaryMedium};
   }

then find

.bx-wrapper .bx-prev:hover
{
   background-position: 0 0;
}

.bx-wrapper .bx-next:hover
{
   background-position: -43px 0;
}

and replace with

.bx-wrapper .bx-prev:after,
.bx-wrapper .bx-next:after
{
   height: 32px;
   font-size: 30px;
   content: '\f0a9';
   opacity: .75;
}

   .bx-wrapper .bx-prev:after
   {
     content: '\f0a8';
   }

   .bx-wrapper .bx-prev:hover:after,
   .bx-wrapper .bx-next:hover:after
   {
     opacity: 1;
   }

It works with light and dark styles. Code assumes that you already have Font Awesome included somewhere else. Code was tested with version 2.12.0

 

[DaveM]

I cannot seem to get the sidebar to show at all

Style Properties: CTA Featured Threads Page


I think it might be due to another add on, here is my sidebar

 

[Martok]

I cannot seem to get the sidebar to show at all

Style Properties: CTA Featured Threads Page
View attachment 89836

I think it might be due to another add on, here is my sidebar

View attachment 89837View attachment 89838View attachment 89839

You have to enable the sidebar in CTA Options as well as in the SPs.

If you're using Widget Framework, you can use that instead if you prefer a uniform sidebar on all pages you display it on. Check out the FAQ (tab at the top of the page), details are in there.

 

[DaveM]

You have to enable the sidebar in CTA Options as well as in the SPs.

If you're using Widget Framework, you can use that instead if you prefer a uniform sidebar on all pages you display it on. Check out the FAQ (tab at the top of the page), details are in there.

Are you talking about this setting?



I am not using Widget Framework at all on this forum.

 

[Paul B]

Does it work in a default style?
Does it work with all other add-ons disabled?

There haven't been any other reports of the sidebar on the home page not working.

 

[Martok]

Are you talking about this setting?

View attachment 89855

I am not using Widget Framework at all on this forum.

You have a sidebar showing on your Featured Threads page, I've just checked.

 

[DaveM]

Yes I managed to get it working by installing it again, seems I have a bit of an issue with some tasks running on my forum at the moment. We looking into the issue now, once again thanks for all the help in all this

 

[RobParker]

It's been a while since I looked at this but it looks like the functionality is really coming along great.

Judging from the overview, am I correct in saying that any image attachment from the first post is now displayed when it's promoted? That was one of the key things stopping us using it before.

 

[Paul B]

Yes, all bb code including attachments is now parsed in the output (has been for some time - edit, since June https://xenforo.com/community/resources/cta-featured-threads-portal.2599/update?update=10130).
Guest viewing permissions for full sized attachments are respected, meaning they will see a thumbnail if they don't have permission.

I will be posting a separate thread soon about the future evolution and development of this add-on.

 

[RobParker]

I will be posting a separate thread soon about the future evolution and development of this add-on.

Fingers crossed it contains the words "official", "product" and "line"

 

[Brad P]

okay so im playing around with the hompage on my site and trying to get it set out like this

i have gone into SP and changed the width and height in "list,block,container" and have this result so far, any help would be grand to help me achieve the above.

 

[Martok]

Fingers crossed it contains the words "official", "product" and "line"

Fingers crossed that it doesn't contain the word "crowdfund"

@Proutie87 wouldn't it be simpler for you to ask the site owner how they did it?

 

[sami simo]

okay so im playing around with the hompage on my site and trying to get it set out like this

i have gone into SP and changed the width and height in "list,block,container" and have this result so far, any help would be grand to help me achieve the above.

May be you should make the container height and the text icon height bigger.

 

[Brad P]

Fingers crossed that it doesn't contain the word "crowdfund"

@Proutie87 wouldn't it be simpler for you to ask the site owner how they did it?

of course but i wanted to see if it was a standard edit also.

 

[Martok]

of course but i wanted to see if it was a standard edit also.

There aren't any "standard edits" as such. This add-on was built with the ability to style a whole host of elements that you can customise to get the styling and layout that you want. That's why there are a range of sites using this add-on that have a different look to their front page.

One thing I will say is that the site you are trying to copy emulate is that is it using Featured Threads icons for those square images on the left. On your site you are not, your images are part of the thread itself.

 

[DaveM]

Ok so I know this is an issue with the style that the text is on the top bar and does not format very well but any ideas where I could start looking to fix this would help.

 

[Paul B]

Are you referring to the gradient image?
If so, it is set in the Background SP (blocks and page).

 

[DarkGizmo]

Can someone help me with this?

I want my portal to live at www.revillution.com

and my forum index to live at www.revillution.com/forums

Any help is appreciated. Can't seem to access my forums after setting up. Thanks!

 

[Paul B]

As per the PM, move the installation to the root and set the index page route and home page options as in the resource instructions.

The result is as follows:

http://cliptheapex.com/
http://cliptheapex.com/forums/

I think the problem is you also have a /forums/ directory which you will need to remove/move.