CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[Sheldon]

Finally able to install this, and it is an excellent addition. I always hated the "blank" area above the forum, it seemed as though something could be done there. Enter FEATURED THREADS. Perfect addition to just about any site, there really isn't any reason that it wouldn't work actually. Everyone has content that they want displayed, or at least it's somewhat important, and this fits the bill.

Messed around with the styling, kept it pretty simple to begin with... Everything has a class, making it that much easier to work with. For this being someone's first add-on developed, all I can say is kudos. It was very well thought out and the implementation is perfect. At this time, I cannot think of anything that I personally would need or want to be added to this in any way.





I only removed the "Featured Threads" bit under the avatar, I think it as well as the ribbon is slight overkill. I have the #hashtag mod added as well, so I styled those links to match the main color, as well as the "Read More..." bit. The title I lightened a bit, Brogan's original gradient was fine with me I just adjusted the color of it a bit. Overall, I think it work's perfectly for my needs.

Thanks for the work and effort Brogan.

 

[Paul B]

Thanks for the feedback @Sheldon.
Much appreciated and glad you like the add-on.

P.S. I knew you would be able to transform it style-wise into something else. Nice job.

 

[Shelley]

Finally able to install this, and it is an excellent addition. I always hated the "blank" area above the forum, it seemed as though something could be done there. Enter FEATURED THREADS. Perfect addition to just about any site, there really isn't any reason that it wouldn't work actually. Everyone has content that they want displayed, or at least it's somewhat important, and this fits the bill.

Messed around with the styling, kept it pretty simple to begin with... Everything has a class, making it that much easier to work with. For this being someone's first add-on developed, all I can say is kudos. It was very well thought out and the implementation is perfect. At this time, I cannot think of anything that I personally would need or want to be added to this in any way.

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I only removed the "Featured Threads" bit under the avatar, I think it as well as the ribbon is slight overkill. I have the #hashtag mod added as well, so I styled those links to match the main color, as well as the "Read More..." bit. The title I lightened a bit, Brogan's original gradient was fine with me I just adjusted the color of it a bit. Overall, I think it work's perfectly for my needs.

Thanks for the work and effort Brogan.

Nice work. Liking the shape of the ribbon and colours used in that version.

 

[The Sandman]

Wow, that looks fantastic Sheldon!

Finally able to install this, and it is an excellent addition. I always hated the "blank" area above the forum, it seemed as though something could be done there. Enter FEATURED THREADS. Perfect addition to just about any site, there really isn't any reason that it wouldn't work actually. Everyone has content that they want displayed, or at least it's somewhat important, and this fits the bill.

Messed around with the styling, kept it pretty simple to begin with... Everything has a class, making it that much easier to work with. For this being someone's first add-on developed, all I can say is kudos. It was very well thought out and the implementation is perfect. At this time, I cannot think of anything that I personally would need or want to be added to this in any way.

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I only removed the "Featured Threads" bit under the avatar, I think it as well as the ribbon is slight overkill. I have the #hashtag mod added as well, so I styled those links to match the main color, as well as the "Read More..." bit. The title I lightened a bit, Brogan's original gradient was fine with me I just adjusted the color of it a bit. Overall, I think it work's perfectly for my needs.

Thanks for the work and effort Brogan.

 

[principia]

I have a suggestion :
Grab the first Image instead of the Avartar

 

[Paul B]

That has already been suggested (several times ).

 

[principia]

That has already been suggested (several times ).

Ups, sorry

 

[Paul B]

No problem.

It's on the list for possible future features.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Hi Brogan.
I think this addon looks lovely and I can see it being valuable on AVForums both from the ability to feature editorial related threads and also to sell featured threads to advertisers.
However, the overhead of 3 additional queries for both the forum list and the form view is a bitter pill to swallow.

I have a question. Rather than have a separate set of functions to create a set of featured threads, did you consider extending the functionality of sticky threads to stick and feature? Might that reduce the number of extra queries?

 

[Paul B]

Thanks, I spent a lot of time on the UI and attention to detail.

Looking at reducing the query count is on the list for 1.4.
Having said that, additional queries aren't always a bad thing and are sometimes necessary.

The functionality of featured threads is not really related to sticky threads so there's no way of extending the functionality of them for this add-on.
There are many new custom functions and models which are required for featuring, editing and unfeaturing.

 

[Paul B]

A sneak preview of some of what's coming in 1.4...

 

[BassMan]

Brilliant, Brogan. Can't wait!

 

[Paul B]

In case it's not obvious, this is the end result:

 

[oman]

In case it's not obvious, this is the end result:

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Now that's awesome.

 

[BassMan]

In case I wasn't clear enough - I really can't wait to update!

 

[Martok]

Awesome work, Mr Brogan!

 

[Allan]

In case it's not obvious, this is the end result:

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Can i use as homepage ?

 

[Paul B]

Yes, that is the whole idea behind it.

You just change the index route to threads/featured

 

[Alluidh]

Mistake, sorry

 

[xIsabel38]

In case it's not obvious, this is the end result:

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Am I right in reading the context and determining that this is a separate "Featured Thread" page instead of the top of the forum_list? Are you creating some sort of portal?