Promoted Content [Paid] [Deleted]

[Daniel Hood]

No i mean assigning items per widget.

Oh my bad.

I'm sorry if I overlooked it, but is there a readme file? I'm not sure where to upload/install the files...

EDIT: I figured it out but a read me would help

Good tip, I'll add one with the next update, which with some of the issues pointed out will probably be tonight.

Thanks for this addon!

I've found a bug, the slider only works for me after changing something. In the template "xm_promotedContent_widget_slider" on line two you have to change

<xen:require js="/js/XMPromotedContent/jquery.bxslider.min.js" />

to

<xen:require js="js/XMPromotedContent/jquery.bxslider.min.js" />

Changed for my next release, good catch.

Also the control arrows are not displayed. The Promoted Content - Post only works when only one thread is promoted. After choose an other one the widget just flickers without showing any content.

Arrows: Just realized I didn't include the images. This will be addressed tonight.
Flickering: I didn't upload the php file that made the change to convert milliseconds into seconds. For that timer setting, change the value to *1000 (example: 10 seconds = 10000), I'll fix this tonight too.

A few suggestions:

• choose different content for the slider and the list
• manually set URL (I would like to link in the slider to other pages)
• Show the Promoted Content - List with formatting, so that this can be used for news items

Thank you for your suggestions.

Selecting specific content for specific widgets definitely seems to be a desired featured. I'll start working on getting that included. Probably not tonight as tonight's release is mostly going to be patches.

So you want to link to something aside from the content? I didn't think that would be desired but it's possible to implement.

Seems pretty straightforward.

 

[Scharesoft]

Thanks If that was corrected, the plugin has definitely deserved five stars!

So you want to link to something aside from the content? I didn't think that would be desired but it's possible to implement.

That would be very important to me. I use a MediaWiki and would like to link to articles.

 

[Daniel Hood]

Thanks If that was corrected, the plugin has definitely deserved five stars!

Well get ready to 5 star because I'm going to be releasing the patched version shortly .

That would be very important to me. I use a MediaWiki and would like to link to articles.

I think the biggest issue with this is that I could make all of them link to one spot easily but to send each promoted content item to a different url would require you be prompted for a url each time you promote something and then me save it and read that. This is do-able, I just think the default behavior would be to link directly to the content. I'm not saying no to doing this because I can see how it would be beneficial, but it isn't something I'm going to work in right away. I just feel there's higher priority issues to work out and hopefully with waiting I'll figure out how to implement it in a more organized way.[/quote][/quote]

 

[Scharesoft]

More important for me would be the possibility to show posts in the thread list with formatting, so that I can use it for news. This would be great!

 

[Daniel Hood]

Daniel Hood updated Promoted Content with a new update entry:

Patches

Wrong javascript path fixed:

Thanks for this addon!

I've found a bug, the slider only works for me after changing something. In the template "xm_promotedContent_widget_slider" on line two you have to change

<xen:require js="/js/XMPromotedContent/jquery.bxslider.min.js" />

to

<xen:require js="js/XMPromotedContent/jquery.bxslider.min.js" />

Fixed arrows not showing on the slider along with promoted content -...

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Scharesoft]

There is a broken file in the folder "upload" -> "js" called XMPromotedContent. In the old version this was a folder, but now this file seems to be corrupted.

An update with the Add-on Install & Upgrade manager is so also not possible:

copy(): The second argument to copy() function cannot be a directory

1. XenForo_Application::handlePhpError()
2. copy() in C:\xampp\htdocs\scharesoft.de\library\AddOnInstaller\Model\AddOn.php at line 63
3. AddOnInstaller_Model_AddOn->recursiveCopy() in C:\xampp\htdocs\scharesoft.de\library\AddOnInstaller\Model\AddOn.php at line 67
4. AddOnInstaller_Model_AddOn->recursiveCopy() in C:\xampp\htdocs\scharesoft.de\library\AddOnInstaller\ControllerAdmin\AddOn.php at line 237
5. AddOnInstaller_ControllerAdmin_AddOn->actionInstallUpgrade() in C:\xampp\htdocs\scharesoft.de\library\XenForo\FrontController.php at line 337
6. XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in C:\xampp\htdocs\scharesoft.de\library\XenForo\FrontController.php at line 134
7. XenForo_FrontController->run() in C:\xampp\htdocs\scharesoft.de\admin.php at line 13

 

[Daniel Hood]

There is a broken file in the folder "upload" -> "js" called XMPromotedContent. In the old version this was a folder, but now this file seems to be corrupted.

An update with the Add-on Install & Upgrade manager is so also not possible:

My bad, I'm not sure how that happened. I'll fix this in a second.

 

[Daniel Hood]

Re-download, it should be fixed.

 

[Scharesoft]

Thank you, the Promoted Content - Post is now working! But the arrows for the slider are still missing.

 

[Daniel Hood]

Thank you, the Promoted Content - Post is now working! But the arrows for the slider are still missing.

Hmm. I'll check into this. It should be working, I may have saved the foldername wrong.

 

[Scharesoft]

In xm_promotedContent.css you need to change

/styles/XMPromotedContent/images/XXX

to

styles/images/XXX

at each location.

It's the same with the loader image.

 

[Daniel Hood]

In xm_promotedContent.css you need to change

to

at each location.

It's the same with the loader image.

Yeah I just saw that, that's a good temporary fix but to avoid overwriting other addon's files, I'm going to just fix the file structure in the zip for the next release.

 

[Nudaii]

just a note i didn't get the last update via email

could you send it manually?

 

[DRE]

Can you let us add a maximum width and height for this slide because when it's on hook:forum_node_list it is HUGE man check it out. I definitely need to make it shorter and not as tall. If I have to stretch the images I will.

 

[Daniel Hood]

Did you set the height setting?

 

[Daniel Hood]

If you ever don't get the email, you can get your order here.

 

[DRE]

Did you set the height setting?

Yes I did it with and without and it didn't let me adjust the height of the whole block.

 

[DRE]

Finally got this working the way I want even though it's a lil rough compared to the slider in Xenporta.

Problem 1: I could not choose what size the slider could be from the widget options.
The Answer: I simply made sure all promoted content attachments I uploaded were around 450x width and 200 height.

Problem 2: It only chooses the biggest attachment in a promoted content thread and not the short slide one you uploaded. I solved that issue by not uploading any other attachments other than the slide attachment.

Problem 3: Not an issue I can really handle here. Basically I want them to only be on the home page. I asked in the BD Widgets Framework thread. Just waiting on an answer for now.

 

[DRE]

Oh yeah... the other problem is that I cannot set which content is shown first. I cannot set the order of slides.

I don't even know how the order is arranged. Doesn't seem to be set by entry creation or post date. I wonder if it's going by the time you manually promoted something.

 

[Daniel Hood]

Oh yeah... the other problem is that I cannot set which content is shown first. I cannot set the order of slides.

I don't even know how the order is arranged. Doesn't seem to be set by entry creation or post date. I wonder if it's going by the time you manually promoted something.

It goes based on order of promotion, the most recently promoted is in the first slot. I'll work on adjusting the other things. Just sounds like more options and moving the options to the edit widget page, which I can do now.