CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[Paul B]

Scrolling/slideshow has been suggested previously.

It is not something I currently plan to implement.
Not least because it would require a fairly significant rewrite of the code.

 

[RobinHood]

Okey dokey, well consider my vote for it cast. Would certainly give it that extra edge as a 'portal' if it did

Great job on the add on, having fun with it and working a treat so far.

 

[Paul B]

Well the scrolling/slideshow stuff would only be on the blocks, not on the main featured thread page.

So in that respect it wouldn't have anything to do with the portal aspect.

 

[RobinHood]

Ahh okay, you're absolutely right. In my case I'm using your add on in conjunction with the widget framework on the forum list to create a 'portal' home page as such. That's the bock I'm talking about.

Alternatively having an alert bubble for unread new featured threads in the nav tab could by useful. Similar to Chris' unread post count add on

 

[Paul B]

The concept doesn't work as featured threads are a snippet/duplicate of the threads themselves.

It's not unique content.

 

[RobinHood]

They reference the original thread that's featured though, right. Surely that thread is unique if it's unread by the user?

 

[RobinHood]

Although you wouldn't want lots of alerts for featured threads, and you'd want the alert to disappear after the first view never to return, and only then receive normal new post and subscription alerts after that. So perhaps there's a way of marking the featured thread 'unread' to everyone until they click on it, then it automatically clears it?

Just a thought

 

[Paul B]

Automatic featuring is working

Got more code to write but the basic functionality is done.

 

[Mark_]

Hi @Brogan, would it be possible for you to implement 'Featured Posts'? (or perhaps as a new add-on extension? )

Reason for my asking is that, at least on my site, we tend to have very long threads and it's very common to have individual posts within threads that are worthy of promoting/featuring.
Thanks.

 

[Paul B]

I'll add it to the list for consideration but that's essentially a new add-on.

 

[Mark_]

I'll add it to the list for consideration but that's essentially a new add-on.

Thanks, that's what I hinted ; and I'll buy in a heartbeat!

 

[Big_Dog]

The template merging is the same with this add-on as the core software and any other add-on.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/template-merging-and-history.48846/

As already stated, either merge the changes or make a note of your custom edits, revert the template and reapply them.

thanks

 

[masterchief]

Hmm, interesting suggestion.
One which hasn't been made before.

I'll add it to the list.

 

[masterchief]

I missed where to control how much of featured thread text to post to featured threads page... please advise.

 

[BassMan]

I missed where to control how much of featured thread text to post to featured threads page... please advise.

Options > CTA Featured Threads

 

[Paul B]

The option controls the amount of characters retrieved from the post.

The Style Properties control how much is displayed.

 

[masterchief]

The option controls the amount of characters retrieved from the post.

The Style Properties control how much is displayed.

which style property please??

 

[Paul B]

What are you trying to do?

 

[masterchief]

What are you trying to do?

I want to limit amount of text displayed on my featured thread page. thumbnail is current display, I would like to limit to two paragraphs or so.

 

[Paul B]

Edit the content when you feature it and delete everything after the second paragraph.