CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[Sheldon]

Even better....

Postbit Integration (Styling postbit later... likely change for this site anyway)



And for those poor lost souls without one....

 

[Sheldon]

Well done! Looks great. If only those avatars could be replaced...

Just remove them....

 

[Paul B]

I have a few ideas related to being able to use an image instead of the avatar.
I'm not going to promise anything though so that's as much as I'm going to say for now.

 

[Sheldon]

Sound great @Brogan

Still playing around, getting more involved with the look, so easy and flexible..

 

[sami simo]

Is there a way to force a default or maximum duration for all featured threads?

 

[Paul B]

The default duration when featuring threads is set in the cta_featuredthreads_feature template.
It is currently set to 2 weeks.
You could edit that to change it to what you wish, even permanent.

For existing featured threads it would require a query.

 

[Lisa]

I have a few ideas related to being able to use an image instead of the avatar.
I'm not going to promise anything though so that's as much as I'm going to say for now.

Please promise! I'd love to be able to add an image relevant to the thread instead of seeing the avatar. Sometimes the avatars used aren't always going to be ones you'd like to see blazing across the top of your site

 

[tommydamic68]

I have a few ideas related to being able to use an image instead of the avatar.
I'm not going to promise anything though so that's as much as I'm going to say for now.

Please promise! I'd love to be able to add an image relevant to the thread instead of seeing the avatar. Sometimes the avatars used aren't always going to be ones you'd like to see blazing across the top of your site

Excellent idea -

 

[Paul B]

Please promise!

No.

 

[Sheldon]

No.

 

[Lisa]

No.

You're mean.

 

[tommydamic68]

I just want to be sure this works as I need. I have a monthly thread I change each month and want that featured for the entire month until I update the rew monthly thread. BUT I also have some good Informational threads I would like to rotate through out the month along with that monthly thread, would this work properly for me?

 

[Paul B]

Each featured thread can be featured independently for the time period you specify.
All currently featured threads are displayed randomly on each page load.
They are also all listed on the dedicated page, in reverse order of the date they were featured.

You can see it in action here:

http://xenadmins.com/

http://xenadmins.com/threads/featured

 

[tommydamic68]

I don't want anyone able to add featured threads but admins- that's possible?

 

[Paul B]

All governed by permissions.

The main resource body explains all of this and has extensive screenshots.

 

[Sheldon]

I don't want anyone able to add featured threads but admins- that's possible?

Yes, that is a usergroup definable permission.

 

[Paul B]

For the next version (2.1) I decided to add the [Expired] badge after all.
Fear not though, it can be disabled and as you would expect, there are separate Style Properties and CSS classes.





If the viewing user can feature that specific thread then they will see the expired badge.
Which makes more sense than arbitrarily applying it to all administrators and moderators, who may not have that permission.

I have found being able to see which threads have been previously featured extremely useful, to avoid featuring them again by mistake.

 

[Paul B]

Brogan updated CTA Featured Threads with a new update entry:

Bits & Pieces

Some new stuff.

The option to show Featured Threads in their own forum, own + parent forums, or globally, was previously requested by several people and has now been implemented.

View attachment 70417

I have found being able to see which threads have been previously featured extremely useful, to avoid featuring them again by mistake.
So I decided to add the [Expired] badge after all.

Fear not though, it can be disabled and as you would expect, there are separate Style Properties and...

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Paul B]

As usual, I will email the update to everyone with an active license.

If you don't receive it, let me know via conversation.

 

[MattW]

Great update Paul. Both sites done