Lack of interest Make thread title a link to the thread itself

[Vladislav Rastrusny]

Hello.

Currently we can get a link to a thread by right-clicking the date of it's creation below thread title. It looks a little bit strange to me that thread title itself is not a link, but thread starting date is.

Can you exchange things or additionally make thread title a link to the thread?

 

[Paul B]

I know this is in suggestions but you can achieve this with a simple template edit.

Open the thread_view template.

Find this on the second line:

<xen:h1>{$thread.title}</xen:h1>

Replace with this:

<xen:h1><a href="{xen:link threads, $thread}">{$thread.title}</a></xen:h1>

This does exactly the same as clicking the thread creation date so it is a bit superfluous in that respect.

I posted is as a template modification also for future reference: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/change-thread-titles-in-thread-view-into-url-links.8585/

 

[Floris]

[edit]

I just found Brogan his other thread and was about to post it here Lol, I should have scrolled down.

 

[Neil E.]

Find this on the second line:

<xen:h1>{$thread.title}</xen:h1>

To be completely accurate, find this: <xen:h1>{xen:helper threadPrefix, $thread}{$thread.title}</xen:h1>

(Taken from the template modification)

 

[Neil E.]

I must be missing the point of the modification. Why have a link to the topic you are already in? Is this just to refresh the topic if there was a new post while you were reading other posts?

 

[DRE]

I must be missing the point of the modification. Why have a link to the topic you are already in?

To refresh the page, open in another window or to copy-n-paste.

When Xenforo gets Live Topics, the first reason will no longer be needed.

 

[Digital Doctor]

To refresh the page, open in another window or to copy-n-paste.

Not exactly convenient.

 

[Neil E.]

I get the page refresh reason.
The default link behaviour is "open in the same window", so it wouldn't open in a new window.
Copy-n-paste doesn't really require a refresh, but I can see wanting to refresh just in case of a content edit change by another poster.

 

[Digital Doctor]

The other reason is: most forums have this. So I look for it. I still look for it.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Another reason ...
easy way to copy the thread's URL with a right clicking of the link.
Instead I have to cut out the unwanted part of the URL that is in the browser window ... like the one I have now.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/make-thread-title-a-link-to-the-thread-itself.8578/#post-396626

When posting elsewhere, I usually don't want a link to #post-396626.

 

[DRE]

It's convenient for me and I use it very often. To each his own.