Implemented Smilie (Smiley) Categories or Sort Weighting

[ArnyVee]

I'd like to add different smilies to the site (have about 200), but I want to wait until there is that "the dropdown list extends for like a mile" issue is resolved.

In the meantime, I've added a couple of extra ones and I'd like to sort them out away from the default smileys. Can we either have categories for the smilies or have a weighing added to the smilies to display certain ones first or in a particular order?

 

[Peggy]

Are you hinting at me? Because I'm not doing it.

I don't hint. If I wanted you to do it, I'd come right out with it.

 

[ArnyVee]

We've got nearly 40 "likes" on this thread and I sure hope that it ranks up there with some of the other requests like "custom profile fields", etc. The higher up on that total "likes" list we are, the more likely that either another coder will put this together or Mike/Kier can add it to xenForo.

 

[ArnyVee]

Crossing over the 40 "likes" on this thread.

With the attention being paid to smilies in some posts, I think we'll get our way sooner than later

 

[Peggy]

Gawd I hope so. I really need this for my new site.

 

[Shelley]

I think we will see sorting before categories. Eitherway, if category's are being introduced earlier than I think (I honestly don't think they will) then it would be nice to see frontend catergory navigation introduced where we can click a icon and it horizontally shifts to that category wasting no space had you display categories vertically.

 

[ArnyVee]

I'd love to have both, but if we get sorting done first that's fine with me

Shelley, I'm not sure what you mean by the shifting of the categories.

 

[Shelley]

I'd love to have both, but if we get sorting done first that's fine with me

Shelley, I'm not sure what you mean by the shifting of the categories.

Screenshots Below explain

 

[ArnyVee]

Ahhh....that's right. Just couldn't picture it

Yes, definitely would love that as an option to avoid 'wasted space'.

 

[CoreIssue]

We have hundreds of smilies. What I do miss from vB was Smilie Categories. It has a window for the main used ones and drop down showing a list of other categories, such as happy birthday, angry, happy, dancing, etc. Worked really well.

Yea. this is one that should be core to XF.

 

[Peggy]

Be sure to like the first post (although that hasn't gotten us anywhere yet, but we're still hoping).

 

[CoreIssue]

Be sure to like the first post (although that hasn't gotten us anywhere yet, but we're still hoping).

 

[ArnyVee]

Well, we're at nearly 50 'likes' at this point. So, we're getting more and more support

 

[ArnyVee]

Over 50 likes and I hadn't bumped this one in over three and a half months

Hope we get some 'smiley love' coming soon!

 

[Mr. Wah]

Any word on this?

I run a gaming forum so it would be great to have a categorization feature with the smilies as smilies are added as character gameplay is, and the current system just shows the smilies at the end as they were added so I have notation, characters, then a notation one and a character one, etc.

 

[Peggy]

We're still waiting, unfortunately.

 

[ArnyVee]

Hopefully soon. A sneaky move to drop it into 1.1 as a 'surprise' addition would be nice

 

[Lone Wolf]

Adding this would really increase the admins ability to personalise his/her own version of XenForo

 

[ArnyVee]

I agree Lone Wolf. And, we have about 60 others that agree as well

Hopefully we can get this added in the 1.1 version of xF (although I doubt it). If not, then we can always hope for it to be included in 1.2

 

[CoreIssue]

Yep. Really useful.

 

[robdog]

If not, then we can always hope for it to be included in 1.2

Or 1.1.1

Might be a small enough feature to fit in.