CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[The Grand Potentate]

@Brogan Is there a way to turn off the featuring of the poll in certain areas? For example, I have a thread with a poll featured and I'd like to show both parts on the home page, but on the forum list page it takes up too much space and I'd like to just show the featured thread without the separate box for the poll. Could it be done?

 

[Martok]

@Brogan Is there a way to turn off the featuring of the poll in certain areas? For example, I have a thread with a poll featured and I'd like to show both parts on the home page, but on the forum list page it takes up too much space and I'd like to just show the featured thread without the separate box for the poll. Could it be done?

You can specify separately in the Featured Threads Block and Featured Threads Page SPs whether or not to display the poll. So you can set it to show polls on the FT page but not on the forums. See the screenshots in the update.

 

[The Grand Potentate]

Thanks @Martok

 

[Paul B]

Which is exactly why I added those SPs.

I figured that sometimes the polls would be too large for the forum areas.

 

[The Grand Potentate]

Which is exactly why I added those SPs.

I figured that sometimes the polls would be too large for the forum areas.

Oh, you did good. I just ****ed up and scrolled my happy ass right on down past the one screen shot I needed to see.

 

[The Sandman]

The overview page is getting a bit unwieldy - I think it's about time to break it down into volumes and chapters.

 

[Paul B]

Do you mean the resource description?

It's like a mini novel

 

[The Sandman]

It's like a mini novel

More like an epic! You could probably sell off the movie rights if you wanted to.

 

[The Grand Potentate]

More like an epic! You could probably sell off the movie rights if you wanted to.

Take it easy there George R. R. Martin.

 

[Paul B]

I must confess, updating the resource content and replacing the screenshots and updating the text, is worse than writing the code.

 

[The Sandman]

I must confess, updating the resource content and replacing the screenshots and updating the text, is worse than writing the code.

You need an intern!

 

[Sunka]

Is it possible to somehow feature custom page (created from Admin panel - /admin.php?pages/add)

 

[melbo]

Happy to report that my first Featured Poll has 3x the normal votes in just 2 days! It's still not much (21 votes) but polls have always flopped at my forum and I'm encouraged by this. We're not using the portal so this is solely driven from FTs in forums and New Posts.

 

[Paul B]

Is it possible to somehow feature custom page (created from Admin panel - /admin.php?pages/add)

No, that's not possible.

It's a completely different content type.

 

[Paul B]

Happy to report that my first Featured Poll has 3x the normal votes in just 2 days! It's still not much (21 votes) but polls have always flopped at my forum and I'm encouraged by this. We're not using the portal so this is solely driven from FTs in forums and New Posts.

That's great to hear.

I'm convinced that featuring polls is the best way of exposing them and maximising participation.

 

[Scharesoft]

Is it possible to show the featured threads blocks on a specific page? I've created a page for home with a list of recent wordpress pages and other things. There the featured threads block would be great as an addition.

 

[Paul B]

You would have to expose the data to your custom page, which would require custom development.

 

[Scharesoft]

This would be an important feature for me.

How is it possible to expose the data to a custom page? Of course I could read the entrys from "cta_ft_featured_threads" in the database, but I think there is a more elegant solution.

 

[Paul B]

I don't know how your custom page has been developed.

Whoever did it for you would have to look at the existing code for the add-on with regards to the page function and replicate that.

 

[Scharesoft]

In the moment it's just a new node (page type) with a PHP callback and in this PHP class I create the entry of the new page. These are my first attempts of a small addons for myself.