CTA Featured Threads & Portal [Paid] 2.17.0

[grantus]

Is there a way to get a featured thread's image URL? I'm wondering if I can use it in a custom template.

 

[Paul B]

Without custom development, it wouldn't be available programmatically in other templates.

 

[grantus]

Ok that's what I figured. Thanks.

 

[Moshe1010]

Which version did you upgrade from and to?

from 2.13.1 to latest.

Can you run this query and choose full texts and paste the output?

CREATE TABLE `cta_ft_featured_threads` ( `thread_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `featured_title` varchar(250) NOT NULL, `featured_message` mediumtext NOT NULL, `featured_date` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `featured_expiry` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `featured_by_user_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `featured_icon_date` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `featured_background_date` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `featured_slider_background_date` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `featured_automatically` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `display` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `avatar_icon` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `slider` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `slider_date` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `dismissible` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', PRIMARY KEY (`thread_id`), KEY `featured_by_user_id` (`featured_by_user_id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8

 

[Paul B]

Check your conversations.
We need to run a few queries to resolve it, due to the queries failing during the upgrade(s).

 

[oO5 Dynasty]

Cant seem to get my youtube video to display the entire video in the featured thread box. How do i go about making the block bigger to see all of the content, and how to make the avatar image display bigger?

 

[oO5 Dynasty]

This is the forum list page after i tried changing the height.
The content still doesnt display fully. Only on the featured thread page does it display fully.

 

[Martok]

The content still doesnt display fully. Only on the featured thread page does it display fully.

See this response from Brogan to the same question previously.

Yes, you can change the size in Style Properties - you can make them a fixed height or dynamic.

Copy how it is done for the page for the thread content and thread text if you want them dynamic.

Personally though I just edit the Featured thread content so that the YouTube video doesn't appear in the first few lines (I tend to move it lower down so it still appears in the block on the Featured Threads page).

 

[Paul B]

^ What @Martok said.

Simply changing the style properties will allow you to achieve that.

 

[dougiemac]

Does anyone else's Featured Threads onLoad of page, display a large blank space momentarily and then display properly? Is there an optimization or setting I have missed as it seems to want to load more and hangs for a moment before "snapping" back in place.

 

[Paul B]

Do you have the Facebook share option enabled in the block footer?

I think from memory it is related to that and how the iframe is loaded.
Unfortunately it's not something I can control as it is dependent on Facebook.

 

[dougiemac]

I do @Brogan. I like that option enabled for social sharing, but if it causes an optimization issue for page load, I'll disable it. Thanks bro.

 

[dougiemac]

@Brogan.... that was it. I disabled it for now. f'n facebook.

 

[Paul B]

Yes, it's frustrating.
The problem is very much server and device dependent; I didn't notice it too much on my PC but I did on my tablet.

 

[vij]

@Brogan
Can this addon be used to display "featured threads" as a list view (like how new posts page show) ?

 

[Paul B]

It would be possible but would require custom page template HTML and CSS.

 

[grantus]

On the featured threads page, how can I remove "featured threads" in the title? I have it set as my homepage and I would like to take that out of the page title so it doesn't show in the browser. Would it be in the cta_featuredthreads_featured template?

 

[Paul B]

Yes, you would need to edit that template to remove it.

 

[grantus]

Ok, thought so. Thanks!

 

[fredrikse]

This add-on seems really great. Have you seen the activity level go up when featuring threads on the start page?