Implemented Xenforo 2 suggestion. Featured Threads Widget

[Brad Padgett]

I wanted to make a simple yet effective suggestion for Xenforo 2. I'm sure this has been suggested for Xenforo 1 before but this is for Xenforo 2.

It would be nice if we could have a featured threads widget that would possibly either allow us to pick threads we want to display or even maybe show a preview of the threads in a possible small slideshow.

vBulletin 5 has something like this already for featuring threads. Not that there any competition to Xenforo 2 but it would be a very nice widget feature to possibly release later down the road for Xenforo 2.

If you would like to see this please reply with your thoughts and like the post.

 

[Anatoliy]

I'm second on that. I can see that XenForo uses the "Featured Resources" widget, how come we still deped on a third party [XD] Feature Threads add-on, which is actually out of order after the last upgrade?

 

[Imgbi]

Supported!
Simple layout like the recent posts widget is ok.

 

[Ozzy47]

Supported!
Simple layout like the recent posts widget is ok.

If you support the suggestion you need to like the first post in the thread, that is how the developers gauge interest in suggestions.

 

[Anatoliy]

If you support the suggestion you need to like the first post in the thread, that is how the developers gauge interest in suggestions.

any idea about how many likes we need to collect to get noticed?

 

[Ozzy47]

No, but there is this:

Replying to Suggestions

First and foremost, if you like the suggestion that a person has made, like the post. If you have further tweaks to the suggestion, please post them but still like the post.

Suggestions can be sorted by the number of likes the first message has received by using the "thread display options" tab at the bottom of thread list. The number of likes that the first message of a thread has received is "shown" on the thread list by hovering the replies/views cell.

Threads with a large number of likes will bubble up to the top and give us things to focus on. However, please keep in mind that a highly-liked suggestion is not guaranteed to be implemented. There may be technical reasons to not do it or it may not fit in with the goals for the product. We will give our thoughts on as many suggestions as possible.

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/guide-to-suggestions.2285/

 

[deslocotoco]

Supporting this.

XF, please!

 

[Anatoliy]

No, but there is this:

Not good... The first one sits there from 2010 and has 200 likes.
Iny ideas how we can get 200 likes?
And preferrebly now, not in 2029.

 

[l3ta]

Great idea. Brett 4 xf developer!

 

[Paul B]

Implemented in 2.3.

XF 2.3 - Featuring content

While the first few 'Have you seen...?' posts for XenForo 2.3 have focused on mostly aesthetic or performance changes, today we are taking the opportunity to talk about one of the first new major pieces of functionality we've been working on. Every release cycle we like to focus on at least one...

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