XF Addons

[Disciple of Nagash]

Hi,

I am looking at coming from MyBB. My forum is heavily customised (www.vampirecounts.net) and I have been checking out the addons here which seem very extensive. However there are a couple that I have not managed to find an equivalent here, and I just wanted to ask and see if they existed:

• Abbreviations - Allows Admin to specify abbreviations and description in ACP (example: DoN = Disciple of Nagash). If an abbreviation is used in a post in the forum it changes style and upon mouseover the description shows - very handy for new users.
• RSS Feed - Can input an RSS feed into the ACP and it will generate a thread in a specified forum on new posts. Currently used as a news forum.

There are probably some more, but those are the ones I can't find if anyone can confirm if they do or don't exist.

(I was going to ask in the addon forum but I don't have access yet).

Many thanks

DoN

 

[Paul B]

The RSS feed is default functionality.

I don't believe I have seen an add-on which caters for the abbreviations though.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Abbreviations - Allows Admin to specify abbreviations and description in ACP (example: DoN = Disciple of Nagash). If an abbreviation is used in a post in the forum it changes style and upon mouseover the description shows - very handy for new users.

I don't think that exists. But it's a good idea.
For the time being, you could use

source - http://xenforo.com/community/threads/keyword-replace-by-waindigo.30749/

But your shortform would be expanded to the full word.

Donate a bit of $$ to Waindigo and he might add what you want.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I like how your site does it.

Should be easy to code something like that.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Cheers for the info - I would be willing to pay towards it as an addon, it is one of the features of my site which is well liked.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

@Digital Doctor - I've just seen the addon you tagged me in, sorry I currently don't have permissions to post there. However I would very interested to see what the overlay option does, as that could be ideal.

Many thanks for all your help.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Overlay is what opens the contact form, member card and other things. You could use it for 'pages' depending on how the pages are coded.

Cool

 

[Digital Doctor]

.

Got it to work.



use HTML

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

That is fantastic

If you don't mind there are a couple of more functions on my site which I have not been able to find in the addons:

• Random quote generator. At the top we have a section which randomly displays quotes upon refresh - these quotes are manually put into a file in the directory. I am not such much bothered about it being at the top, in the side bar would be great (ideally with an option for the user to hide).
• Glow around user profile when online. At the moment if someone is online, their avatar in the postbit has a red glow around, dark if offline and I think blue if away.

Are there any addons like those two?

Thanks again for any help.

 

[Paul B]

There are a couple of random quote add-ons in the RM.

There is (was?) also an online/offline add-on.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Cheers - I'll see if I can find them

 

[Shelley]

online/offline users can be found here if your referring to that. http://xenforo.com/community/resources/rt-online-status-ribbon.1276/

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Ok, found a great random quote generator:
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/xenquotation.180/
So much better than my current one, being able to convert posts to quotes

@Shelley - yes I did find that one, I was hoping there was one similar to mine that put a glow around the avatar rather than the ribbon underneath.

I see you also do a lot smileys - don't suppose you have a vampire / gothicky ones for a Vampire Counts forum?

 

[Shelley]

Ok, found a great random quote generator:
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/xenquotation.180/
So much better than my current one, being able to convert posts to quotes

@Shelley - yes I did find that one, I was hoping there was one similar to mine that put a glow around the avatar rather than the ribbon underneath.

I see you also do a lot smileys - don't suppose you have a vampire / gothicky ones for a Vampire Counts forum?

I haven't looked at that add-on but there might be a way of adapting it so you can change it from ribbons and replacing that with the specific glow around the avatar either via an image or box-shadowing. I haven't checked out the add-on so not entirely 100% sure if it can be adapted but worth trying on the off-chance it can be customized. I actually think it may be possible.

Vampire smilies - Only vampire type smiley I've designed was 1 for the xenforo extended pack. Not sure zombies count as gothicky? But I design zombie smilies that might appeal to your forum which I designed, not sure that is the gothicky feel your looking for though.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Yes I found the zombie smileys, will be using some of those. Is there perhaps anywhere I can get some custom smileys made?

 

[Shelley]

Yes I found the zombie smileys, will be using some of those. Is there perhaps anywhere I can get some custom smileys made?

You could try in the request area http://xenforo.com/community/forums/resource-and-add-on-requests.68/ or http://xenforo.com/community/forums/custom-service-development-requests.69/ where someone might take on your request for custom smiley's.

 

[Digital Doctor]

That is fantastic

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Got it to work.
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use HTML

@Digital Doctor

Sorry to bother you, but I was hoping you could help me with something.

On my site the text is for certain keywords is highlighted in blue, with a dotted underline. Using the info you provided I have figured out how to do the colour (color="#.....") but I can't seem to find how to do the dotted underline? Would appreciate any help? Cheers

 

[Jeremy]

CSS:

border-bottom: 1px dotted #ffffff;

Or if you want it like the signature line:

border-bottom: 1px dashed #ffffff;

 

[Trace]

You can also use

<abbr title="Disciple of Blablabla">DoB</abbr>