CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[Paul B]

You can achieve it with customisations.

It's not something I would specifically add as an option.

 

[Zynektic]

I'll do it again via customisation but I still think as an option it would still be welcomed and look cleaner than the current ... at the middle top slider.

 

[Paul B]

It's impossible to please everyone.

Personally I prefer them overlaying the image.

 

[Zynektic]

I don't mind doing the edits myself and I know you cannot please everyone but it looks a lot better to me and a lot of users who asked if they can manually change the slider as they could not see the dots. If I altered their colour it looked weird due to the different variation of images I used.

I'll just redo the code I lost, thanks anyway!

 

[Paul B]

The slider is predominantly about the image.

Reducing the area available to display the image so the slider arrows can be shown permanently, makes little sense to me.

It's far better to have the arrows overlay the slider and only appear on hover (on a desktop device).

There are some examples here which you could use: Examples | Responsive jQuery Slider | bxSlider

 

[outdoorzman]

The RSS icon is missing in UI.X which is down to the custom footer for that style.

Right but surely the feed must be at a predictable address = URL/forum/threads/featured/XXXX.rss or something like that, no?

 

[Martok]

It's at http://www.site.com/threads/featured/index.rss

If your site isn't in the root then you'll need to add the directory it's in after the root URL.

Anyway the easiest way to find the RSS is to temporarily change styles to the default, grab the URL from the RSS icon and then switch your theme back again.

 

[Paul B]

This is the feed for the support site which is installed in the root: http://support.cliptheapex.com/threads/featured/index.rss

 

[Dakis]

Categories have been mentioned once or twice, but even with content tagging introduced in XF, I still fail to see how it would work or what the structure/format would be.
I actually had another look at it earlier today but I couldn't really come up with a useful concept/implementation.

As such, I don't currently have any plans to implement any sort of categorisation.

I could probably offer an idea on this - it would be like a custom field that you fill out when featuring a thread (this would become the feature thread's category). Then on the FT page, there would be a list on top with those categories. Clicking on one of them, would filter the Featured Threads to show only those of that category.

Does that make sense?

 

[Paul B]

Other than how the filtered threads would be displayed, that sounds like a duplication of thread tags.

 

[Dakis]

Other than how the filtered threads would be displayed, that sounds like a duplication of thread tags.

Yeah, except these "filters" or "categories" would only apply to the featured threads. So clicking on one of these wouldn't return all the forum threads tagged with that word, but only the featured threads.

On the other hand, if thread tags could be used for something like this, that would be fantastic.

 

[Paul B]

On the other hand, if thread tags could be used for something like this, that would be fantastic.

They can.

Add a [Featured] and [Category] tag to each featured thread, then use the built in tag filtering system.

It doesn't really make any difference whether the results are listed on the home page or a search page as it's just a filtered list.

 

[Jerpy]

I would like to buy this, but can anyone else out there confirm for me if this works with xenfocus' fusion dark (or for that matter, any of xenfocuses themes)? Slightly new to xenforo, and I know sometimes that some addons have a compatibility issue when it comes to themes here and there. Would I be all set here?

 

[Paul B]

Some of the Style Properties may require changing (especially for dark styles) but it should work with any style.

 

[Zynektic]

I use a dark style not the same but a dark one and did not change much so you should be fine.

 

[Jerpy]

I use a dark style not the same but a dark one and did not change much so you should be fine.

Some of the Style Properties may require changing (especially for dark styles) but it should work with any style.

Sounds good.
Now to decide between xenporta and CTA in the next few days

 

[Motobaka]

Sounds good.
Now to decide between xenporta and CTA in the next few days

I also have used this add on with a dark theme and had no trouble doing minor changes for it to look good.

Never used xenporta, but I have used CTA Featured Threads twice and I´m very happy with it.

 

[grantus]

I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this...

I'm looking at the cta_featuredthreads_featured template and I can see the foreach loop in there - is there a way to get the first featured thread? Because I have a page on my site right now that has the latest articles for example, and I put the first one as a really big div, the rest are smaller.

So in regular PHP that's no problem, I just use a count = 1 and count ++, but with your template I don't see how I can do that. Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Paul B]

You can use a conditional statement to target the first featured thread:

<xen:if is="{$featuredThread.position} == 1">

 

[grantus]

You can use a conditional statement to target the first featured thread:

<xen:if is="{$featuredThread.position} == 1">

Ah I didn't think of that! I knew there was a regular post.position.

I tried it though like this in the cta_featuredthreads_featured_list_item template:

<xen:if is="{$featuredThread.position} == 1">
test
<xen:else />
//regular <li> code
</xen:if>

But it didn't work. Or do you mean it should be in the cta_featuredthreads_featured template?