CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[snoopy5]

I may be able to provide a quote for #3, but #1 wouldn't be something I would be interested in.

Even with #3, the concept I have to say is a little alien to me, creating a thread now but only making it available at a future date.
Why not just create the thread at the time you want to post it?

o.k., was very busy the last months....

I started a thread for the importscript for the Joomla articles into a subforum of xenforo today. See here:

https://xenforo.com/community/threa...omla-articles-into-xenforo-as-threads.114495/

I will write you now the PM for the quote of #3

Thanks

 

[snoopy5]

Has anybody tried yet this addon:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/schedule-content-original-scheduled-post.2216/

together with CTA?

 

[electrogypsy]

@Brogan this is an excellent plugin, and i actually use it for a 'best of' page to feature forum content i don't want to get lost under other forum threads (instead of a home page / portal). If i could make one request though, it would be to add the option to assign a custom thread prefix to featured threads instead of (or in addition to) the default 'featured' prefix. This would give us another level of control and ways to display featured content that i think would be really interesting.

thanks!

 

[Paul B]

I'm not sure I understand - there is no default 'featured' prefix for featured threads - the only prefix which is applied is that which is already on the thread.

It's not possible to override that as it comes from the parent thread.

 

[yazer]

Looks like what i need just one little Q, is there away making top view post the Featured Thread on each topic?

 

[Paul B]

I don't really understand what you mean.

Can you perhaps rephrase?

 

[yazer]

Sorry for not being able to understand. I would like add featured forum on the forum topic. In the category/forum/playstation topic. I like add it to playstation topic. Hope you get what I mean lol sorry bout all this

 

[Paul B]

Sorry, no, I don't understand.

Do you mean this?
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/cta-featured-threads-portal.2599/update?update=9069

The ability to only show featured threads from that forum when viewing a forum?

 

[yazer]

Yes sorry for all hassle I will be buying this in next few weeks.

 

[electrogypsy]

@Brogan this is an excellent plugin, and i actually use it for a 'best of' page to feature forum content i don't want to get lost under other forum threads (instead of a home page / portal). If i could make one request though, it would be to add the option to assign a custom thread prefix to featured threads instead of (or in addition to) the default 'featured' prefix. This would give us another level of control and ways to display featured content that i think would be really interesting.

thanks!

I'm not sure I understand - there is no default 'featured' prefix for featured threads - the only prefix which is applied is that which is already on the thread.

It's not possible to override that as it comes from the parent thread.

not exactly sure what you mean by the parent thread, but here's what i mean by the thread prefix:



and in thread lists:



so, when you click on that thread prefix (that's what it looks like to me anyways) it takes you to the featured threads page. that's okay, but what i was thinking is maybe if it acted like other thread prefixes, where you click on it and it shows a list of only featured threads in that forum node:



hope that makes sense? the ability to further refine featured threads via the thread prefix system (by assigning a thread prefix for featured threads) would add all kinds of ways to sort featured threads, making it easier to find interesting content.

anyways, it's not like it's a deal breaker or anything, just maybe something to think about if you think it would be a good addition (as i would )

 

[Paul B]

That's not a prefix.
It''s an indicator of which threads are currently featured (linked to the portal page) and which are expired.

 

[electrogypsy]

That's not a prefix.
It''s an indicator of which threads are currently featured (linked to the portal page) and which are expired.

ah yes, sorry about the interpretation there, but i still think adding the option to automatically assign a user defined prefix to featured threads would be a worthy addition. thanks!

 

[Arno Nühm]

I just updated from 1.5.4 and now I get nearly every 15 minutes this error: "The existing data required by the data writer could not be found."

If I disable CTA Featured Threads the error is gone. I already "Rebuild CTA Featured Threads" in the tools section.

I guess it is something wrong now with the automatic thread feature...

 

[Paul B]

I suspect there is a discrepancy in the database somewhere.

If you can provide ACP and phpMyAdmin log ins, I can take a look.

 

[Mouth]

Feature Suggestion:
For user group(s) with Permissions 'CTA Featured Threads Moderator Permissions' ([Feature|Update|Unfeature] by anyone), send an alert to all members of that user group(s) each time a thread is Featured|Updated|Unfeatured, as appropriate for each of these permissions they have.

Use Case:
Moderator Team, or trusted usergroup members, will receive an alert when a thread is, manually or automatically, featured/updated/unfeatured for review and awareness.

 

[bibitbunga]

@Brogan sorry for such a dumb question (i am really newbie):

If I install your add-on, and some day I change my xenforo skin (UIX one), would the add-on needs to be configured again? Or all the settings just stick just like it used to be? Does all xF add-on not need to be configured again after we change the skin (e.g. adantio)?

Thank you

 

[Paul B]

The Options would be unaffected.

You would have to set up the Style Properties again though as they only cascade down to child styles, and the main UIX would be configured as a new parent style, with a child UIX style under it.

 

[bibitbunga]

The Options would be unaffected.

You would have to set up the Style Properties again though as they only cascade down to child styles, and the main UIX would be configured as a new parent style, with a child UIX style under it.

Thanks for the reply.. I have purchased the addon and I am glad I made it! Just put a review as well.

Anyway Brogan, where is the option to set the dedicated featured threads page to the tab? I have checked the "Enable Page" but it does not show up (attachment).

Probably because I might deleted (or commented out - I'm not so sure) a part of template to remove the members tab etc in my forum. This is my site: kebunpedia.com

If that is the case, could you please tell me (sorry) where to check the affected template part? And if its correct that I removed them without commented out, where can I get the default code before I messed those things up by just deleted some codes.

Thank yoy

 

[Paul B]

Check that the template modification is being applied.



It's likely that the edits you have made to the navigation template are preventing it from being applied (correctly).

You can add the links manually using this code:

<xen:if is="{$canViewFeaturedThreads} AND {$xenOptions.ctaFtFeaturedThreadsArchive.enabled} AND @ctaFtEnableForumsTabArchiveLink">
    <li><a href="{xen:link 'threads/featured-archive'}">{xen:phrase cta_ft_featured_threads_archive}</a></li>
</xen:if>

<xen:if is="{$canViewFeaturedThreads} AND {$xenOptions.ctaFtFeaturedThreadsPage.enabled} AND @ctaFtEnableForumsTabPageLink">
    <li><a href="{xen:link 'threads/featured'}">{xen:phrase cta_ft_featured_threads}</a></li>
</xen:if>

 

[motowebmaster]

I had to disable the Featured Thread Archive recently, after my migration to LiteSpeed, and now re-enabled it. However it's a bit slow and appears to be running a query every time, is there a way to cache this page?